Maxwell School Events Calendar
South Asia Center Events
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Ranjit Singh: The Curious Case of Tweeting an Aadhaar Number
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.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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From Non-Brahmin Self-Respect to Dravidian Self-Rule
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.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth Century India
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.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Hindustan is a Dream: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy
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.
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South Asia Center Meet & Greet
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.
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Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India
Virtual
The Moynihan Institute presents a virtual book talk with author Saumya Saxena of O.P. Jindal Global University.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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South Asia Center: Graduate and Faculty Luncheon
Maxwell Hall, 204
Faculty and graduate students working on South Asia are invited to the South Asia Center’s Fall 2023 Graduate and Faculty “Meet & Greet Luncheon.”
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India’s Bangladesh Problem: The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal Times
Virtual
Navine Murshid of Colgate University will read excerpts from her book highlighting key claims regarding Bangladesh-India relations, neoliberalism and the marginalization of Bengali Muslims in India.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Mini Conference: South Asian American Invisibility
Virtual
Organized by Professor Prema Kurien (sociology), this timely full day virtual mini-conference approaches the issue of invisibility among South Asian Americans through themes such as boundaries, queerness, gender, race, (trans)nationalism, immigration, economics and religion. The virtual mini-conference also features a professional mentorship panel on navigating academia along with several informal opportunities for participants to discuss shared concerns.
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Spiritual Placemaking: Shia Ismaili Muslim Women's Seva in the Aftermath of Displacement
Virtual
In her talk, Professor Khoja-Moolji draws on oral histories, fieldwork and memory texts to illuminate the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduce bonds of spiritual kinship.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Popular Sovereignty and the Bengali Language Movement in East Pakistan
Virtual
Ahona Panda's talk explores the complexities of the Bengali language movement as a political event. By examining the microhistories of a few dissenters, she argues that the discourse of language was situated between two distinct political imaginaries: the nationalism of Bengali (jātī) and the formulation of the Pakistani nation-state (rāṣṭra).
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Book Launch: Critical Kashmir Studies
Eggers Hall, 341
The Moynihan Institute of International Affairs and the South Asia Center are proud to present SU-Maxwell faculty member Mona Bahn, along with her contributors, who are launching their new book the "Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies."
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.