Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  September 06, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 303

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Joyojeet Pal: Technopopulism and the Assault on Indian Democracy

  September 05, 2024, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Exploring technopopulism, where digital technology and modernity serve as aspirational governance and a mask for charismatic leadership, benefiting social elites and obscuring institutional capture.

• Bangladesh Now: Beyond the Headlines

  August 29, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Discussion of the recent events in Bangladesh, leading up to and following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Aug. 5

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  April 17, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills. All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• The Right to Property and Economic Development in India

  April 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Sawyer Law and Politics Program will host Dr. Namita Wahi, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, and founding director of the Land Rights Initiative.

• Narratival Ambiguity and Its Consequences: The Case of Muslim Divorce in Indian Courts

  April 16, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Discover groundbreaking insights from Yüksel Sezgin's research on Islamic divorces in India, revealing how judges' interpretations can shape the rule of law and influence cultural dynamics.

• Creeping Crisis in South Asia: Perspectives on Health & Environmental Communication

  April 05, 2024, 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. EDT

  Newhouse 3, I-3 Center: 434 Newhouse

  This panel is Session 4 in the CODE^SHIFT Research Symposium, which involves over twenty media scholars and practitioners.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  April 03, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills. All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Caste Sensorium of Campuses: Embodied Experiences Searching for Words

  March 26, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Explore the critical insights into how elite Indian educational institutions perpetuate deep-rooted caste discrimination against Dalitbahujan students, underscoring the need for systemic change.

• Democracy, Authoritarianism and Nationalism: India in Comparative Perspective

  March 22, 2024, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium

  The State of Democracy Lecture Series welcomes Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.

• Student Meet and Greet With Pratap Bhanu Mehta

  March 22, 2024, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Prior to his talk, students—both undergraduate and graduate—are invited to informally meet with Professor Mehta over coffee to discuss politics and India.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  March 20, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills. All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• The Rule of Law and the Modernization of Afghanistan

  March 01, 2024, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Afghanistan's century-long journey towards modernization through constitutionalism, Marxism, Islamism and liberal democracy has, unfortunately, failed to succeed despite the diversity of approaches.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  February 28, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills. All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Faith and Flood: Indigenous Responses to Ecological Catastrophe in Coastal Pakistan

  February 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Adeem Suhail will highlight the practices of cosmological speculation born in the wake of ecological catastrophe on the Makran Coast of Pakistan.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  February 14, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills. All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Book Talk - Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration and the Internationalizing University

  February 06, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute presents a book talk with Susan Thomas, assistant professor of cultural foundations of education at SU’s School of Education.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  January 31, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Hindi-Urdu conversation skills. All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• 2023 Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentations

  January 23, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  The Bharati Memorial Award was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia. Awardee's Mohammad Ebad Athar and Shanel Khaliq, will present their work.

• CANCELLED - Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  December 13, 2023, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, South Asia Center looks forward to next semesters Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table series.