Maxwell School Events Calendar
South Asia Center Events
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Hindi-Urdu Culture and Conversation Table
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.
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Bharati Award Recipient Presentations
Eggers Hall, 341
The Bharati Memorial Grant was established in 1992 to support graduate students at Syracuse University working on South Asia.
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Dalit Artists of Mithila, a film by Radhika Bordia
Eggers Hall, 341
Presenting the film by this name, produced by Radhika Bordia and co-directed by M. Habib Ali and Kaushik Kumar Jha, followed by a discussion led by Professor Emerita Susan Wadley.
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Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State
Virtual
The South Asia Center at Syracuse University presents Leela Fernandez who will discuss her book, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State."
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Life After Death: Ritual and Placemaking in Old Delhi
Eggers Hall, 060
The Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs' South Asia Center presents Kalyani Menon.
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A Conversation on Mother Ocean Father Nation with Nishant Batsha
Eggers Hall, 341
A conversation with Nishant Batsha on his novel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Is there a Systematic Sikh Ethics?
Virtual
In this talk, Singh will argue that a systematic Sikh ethics can be draw from Sikh scripture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.