Maxwell School Events Calendar

South Asia Center Events

• Theory from the Trenches: Decolonization and the Storm of Subaltern Marxism

  March 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Shozab Raza explores a renewed vision of decolonization—one distinct from the efforts led by bureaucrats, professors or social media activists.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 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.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  March 19, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Bengali Culture and Conversation Table

  March 05, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Come learn and practice your Bengali conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Book Talk | ‘Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia’

  March 04, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Bringing together Sikh tradition, psychoanalysis and postcolonial thought, “Prophetic Maharaja” provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history.

• Recognition Without Redistribution: Tribal Recognition and Caste Capitalism in India

  February 25, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  By engaging a language of racialized simplicity, Kandha Adivasis in Odisha express their understanding of indigeneity and entitlements in the development state.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  February 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  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.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  February 19, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• NEW* Bengali Culture and Conversation Table

  February 12, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Bengali conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• A Subaltern Crematorium of India? Bombay, 1918 – 1953

  February 11, 2025, 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  In 1939, Dalit civil disobedience and activism influenced Bombay's first public electric crematorium, symbolizing progress and the fight for equality.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  February 07, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  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.

• Book Talk | ‘H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars’

  February 06, 2025, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  H-Pop blends Hindutva with popular culture, normalizing Islamophobia and shaping narratives online and offline, as explored in Kunal Purohit’s book.

• Divergence and Alterity: Shrines, Sacrality and Performing Arts in South and Southeast Asia

  January 30, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341 United States

  This talk explores syncretic Muslim practices in Java's Jathilan and Sindh's Shah Jo Raag, highlighting sacrality, spirit possession and cultural syncretism.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  January 29, 2025, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 352

  Come learn and practice your Tamil conversation skills! All are welcome to attend, from beginners to native speakers.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  January 24, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  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.

• 2025 Bharati Memorial Awardee Presentations

  January 23, 2025, 3 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 Kanwaljit Singh and Poonam Agarde will present their work.

• Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table

  December 06, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 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 22, 2024, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EST

  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.

• Tamil Culture and Conversation Table

  November 13, 2024, 12:45 p.m.-2 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 352

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

• Book Talk - ‘Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice’

  November 11, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Professor Farhana Sultana will discuss how climate justice fundamentally is about paying attention to how climate change impacts people differently, unevenly and disproportionately.