Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

• 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.

• Untangling Culture from Culture: Exploring the Experiences of Women Tech Entrepreneurs in India

  November 30, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Despite cultural support, India lacks female tech leaders. Research examines cultural norms and their impact on Indian female entrepreneurs worldwide.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  November 29, 2023, 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.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  November 15, 2023, 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.

• Ranjit Singh: The Curious Case of Tweeting an Aadhaar Number

  November 03, 2023, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Hinds Hall, 347

  Ranjit Singh's talk on Aadhaar, India's, ID system, will explore data security, public vs. confidential numbers, and how trust and mistrust shape its operation and residents' access to services.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  November 01, 2023, 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.

• From Non-Brahmin Self-Respect to Dravidian Self-Rule

  October 24, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Matt Baxter focuses on the rising salience of the Continental Jew during the 1930s and the subsequent appropriations on the Indian Subcontinent associated with the radical social reformer EV Ramasami.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  October 18, 2023, 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.

• Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth Century India

  October 12, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Divya Cherian book talk: "Merchants of Virtue" explores 18th-century Hindu identity in Marwar, examining alliances, vegetarianism, non-violence and caste's centrality.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  October 04, 2023, 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.

• Hindustan is a Dream: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy

  September 28, 2023, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Anand Taneja studies Urdu poetry's role in India's political theology. Amid Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia, he questions the state by focusing on self-constitution and reimagining community.

• South Asia Center Meet & Greet

  September 26, 2023, 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  A wonderful opportunity for undergraduate students to meet with the South Asia Center’s director (Prof. Prema Kurien) and regional program manager – Asia (Matthew Baxter) over pizza and samosas.

• Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India

  September 25, 2023, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  The Moynihan Institute presents a virtual book talk with author Saumya Saxena of O.P. Jindal Global University.