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EVENTS

ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012

UPCOMING LECTURES & CONFERENCES

February 16, 2012
Sana Aiyar, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Trade and Politics in a Diasporic Milieu: Colonial Kenya's South Asians"
Cabot 206, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

March 27, 2012
Jonathan Spencer, Professor of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
"Peeling the Onion of Conflict: Muslims (and Catholics and Buddhists and Others) in the Sri Lankan Civil War"
Cabot 206, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

April 4, 2012
Iftikhar Dadi, Associate Professor of Art History, Cornell University
Mugar 200, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

April 17, 2012
Rachel Leow, Prize Fellow in History, Harvard University
"Dangerous Words: Agency and Authority in Postwar Dictionaries of the Malay World"
Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Center
12:00pm - 1:30pm

RECENT LECTURES & CONFERENCES

February 9, 2012
Nile Green, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles
"An Economy of Enchantment: Markets for Islam in an Industrializing Ocean"
Cabot 206, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

December 7, 2011
Eric Tagliacozzo, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Cornell University
"Hajj in the Time of Cholera: Pilgrim Ships and Contagion from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea"
Cabot 206, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

November 15, 2011
Irfan Husain, Journalist, Columnist and Author
"Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West"
Mugar 200, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
3:20pm - 5:20 pm

November 14, 2011
Sunil Amrith, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London
"Islam in the Bay of Bengal: Between Tamil and Malay Worlds"
Barnum Hall 008, Feinleib Auditorium
5:30pm - 7:30pm

November 8, 2011
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
"Impact of 9/11 on South Asians in America"
Cabot 205, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
6:00pm - 7:30pm

November 2, 2011
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Professor, School of History Philosophy Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University, New Zealand
"Dalit-Muslim Relations in the History of Partition in Bengal, 1946-50"
Cabot 205, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

October 26, 2011
Seema Alavi, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi
"Mughal Decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern
India"

Cabot 206, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

October 18, 2011
Sana Haroon, Malathy Singh Visiting Lecturer, South Asian Studies Council, Yale University
"Intersections of Islamic Revivalism across the Durand Line through the Twentieth Century"
Cabot 702, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
12:00pm - 2:00pm

October 12, 2011
Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
"Early Modern Absolutism in 18th Century India"
Cabot 7th Floor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

September 28, 2011
Engseng Ho, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and History, Duke University
"Burial and Travel: Islam across Indian Ocean Cultures"
Cabot 205, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
5:30pm - 7:30pm

 

 
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PAST CONFERENCES

December 3, 2010
Re-Mapping South Asia-Space, Time, Method
Cabot 7th Floor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

May 2, 2009
Conference on 'South Asian Islam in the Global Context'

The conference aims at bringing the insights of some of the most recent research in the field of Islamic studies into a constructive dialogue with the history and historiography of South Asian Muslims, thereby enriching understanding of the variegated and vibrant nature of the Islamic tradition not only for purposes of theory and history but also contemporary public policy. Learn more >

April 5, 2008
New Directions in Modern South Asian Studies
An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in South Asian Studies

April 7-8, 2005 Workshop
Christopher A. Bayly, "Liberalism at Large: Transformations in Indian Political Thought"


 
 

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