The South Asia Seminar Series is a showcase for the disciplinary and methodological diversity of South Asian studies and a forum for the breadth of South Asia-related research in the arts, humanities, and the social and applied sciences at the University of Minnesota and neighboring institutions in the Twin Cities.
The series is facilitated by:
Aisha Ghani Department of Anthropology [email protected] | Vinay Gidwani Department of Geography, Environment & Society [email protected] | Ajay Skaria Department of History [email protected] |
Events
537 Heller Hall
Dr. Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi will offer an analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche and Mansur Ibn Husain al-Hallaj in Iqbal’s Javednama.
537 Heller Hall
Francesca Orsini will talk about how we can reassemble the languages and oral and written textual traditions that colonial ideas of language and modern literary histories have separated.
537 Heller Hall
Sumangala Damodaran will talk about how a corpus of music from mid-1980s India onwards come to address and re-constellate questions of nation, identity and politics in a refreshing manner, challenging right-wing cultural assertions frontally, and also shaping popular music listening cultures in the country through providing contemporary interpretations.
537 Heller Hall
SherAli Tareen will talk about his recently published book Perilous Intimacies on how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
537 Heller Hall
Forthcoming
537 Heller Hall
The speaker will present an outline of his current book project. (Event co-sponsored by The Islamic Studies Program & The Institute for Global Studies)
537 Heller Hall
Niharika Yadav will examine the politics of language in Rammanohar Lohia's socialism through an account of his Angrezī Hatāo (Banish English) movement.
Event co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Studies.
537 Heller Hall
Prathama Banerjee will explore the politics of time implicit in the career of the Subaltern Studies school of thought. (Event co-sponsored by Institute of Global Studies.)
Blegen Hall 235
This paper is based on Chowdhury's current book project that contemplates the postcolonial trajectories of development and democracy. The focus is a river bridge in Bangladesh which is the country’s largest and most high-profile development project.
Blegen Hall 235
In this talk, Dr. Dhanda argues that South Asian populations experience the relative intensity of racism and casteism in different ways and presents that from our position in the diaspora, the concurrence of anti-racism and anti-casteism lies in the realm of praxis.
Blegen Hall Room 145
Anand Patwardhan is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while others investigate nuclear nationalism and unsustainable development.