Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

  • NYCAS 2022 - State and Society in Asia: Past and Present

    Eggers Hall, Commons (2nd floor)

    What historical legacies of the state persist in contemporary Asia? What roles do technology and urban development play in extending state power to unprecedented degrees? How do regime changes unsettle and re-arrange key local and national cultural constituents and what impact do these changes have on environmental history, archaeology, and cultural heritage sites? 135 scholars representing 71 institutions in 16 U.S. states and 15 countries will come to Syracuse for two days to present and discuss their research on these questions and other themes related to the study of Asia.

  • NYCAS 2022 - State and Society in Asia: Past and Present

    Eggers Hall, Commons (2nd floor)

    What historical legacies of the state persist in contemporary Asia? What roles do technology and urban development play in extending state power to unprecedented degrees? How do regime changes unsettle and re-arrange key local and national cultural constituents and what impact do these changes have on environmental history, archaeology, and cultural heritage sites? 135 scholars representing 71 institutions in 16 U.S. states and 15 countries will come to Syracuse for two days to present and discuss their research on these questions and other themes related to the study of Asia.

  • South Asia Spring Social

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    This event is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and others with an interest in South Asia to mingle and meet one another.

  • Tribes and the Indian State: The Ho of Jharkhand and Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh

    Virtual

    This panel will examine how casteism and other forms of marginalization contribute to both biological and psychosocial health disparities in India.

  • Plot-Life in Flower City: Transnational Ritual Ecologies in the Wake of Plantations

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    This talk explores the religious life of the Indo-Guyanese community in the suburban Toronto.

  • Citizenship in the Time of Climate Change: Displacement, Adaptation, and Resilience in South Asia

    Virtual

    This roundtable considers how a changing climate, its impacts, and responses to it reformulate concepts and practices of citizenship and belonging.

  • Is there a Systematic Sikh Ethics?

    Virtual

    In this talk, Singh will argue that a systematic Sikh ethics can be draw from Sikh scripture.

  • Building a More Effective Indian State: Theory, Evidence, and Practice

    Maxwell Hall, 204

    In this talk, Prof. Muralidharan, will synthesize insights from two decades of research on improving public service delivery and state capacity in India.

  • Death in the City: Funerary Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim South Asia

    Virtual

    This talk will explore how funerary sites and rituals have historically impacted and shaped urban development in the Indian subcontinent.

  • Genealogies of Anti-Asian/Asia Violences Symposium

    Eggers Hall, 220

    This symposium will convene a cohort of scholars, students, and activists whose work can collectively help trace the genealogies and geographies of anti-Asian violence.

  • Genealogies of Anti-Asian/Asia Violences Symposium

    Eggers Hall, 220

    This symposium will convene a cohort of scholars, students, and activists whose work can collectively help trace the genealogies and geographies of anti-Asian violence.

  • Beyond the Camp and the Surgery: Cochlear Implants and Complex Dependencies in India

    Hall of Languages, 500

    This talk will examine how the Indian cochlear implant program reveals new way in which the state engages with disability.

  • Police Matters: A Book Talk with Radha Kumar & Lisa Mitchell

    Virtual

    Police Matters examines the close ties between state & caste authority during the much of the 20th century in the Tamil-speaking countryside of South India.

  • Bangkok Utopia: A Book Talk with Lawrence Chua and Anoma Pieris

    Virtual

    Lawrence Chua’s "Bangkok Utopia" (University of Hawai’i Press, 2021) outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by scholars of both. In this book talk, Professor Chua will discuss his work and conversation with Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture at the University of Mebourne.

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