Events
2012-2013
Spring 2013
Lunch Lecture Series
An RSVP is required for all lectures in this series. Please contact Jayne Bialkowski. jayne@princeton.edu or 609.258.2635.
February 12, 2013
The Politics of the 1971 Bangladesh War
Gary Bass, Princeton University
Noon
3rd floor Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall
February 28, 2013
Stranded between Government and Opposition: The Politics of India’s Left Front since 1989
Sanjay Ruparelia, The New School for Social Research
Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
March 7, 2013
Dalit Bombay: Stigma, Everyday Life, and the Location of Critical Thought
Anupama Rao, Barnard College
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
March 14, 2013
Pakistan: Preventing State Failure
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist, and defense analyst
Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored with the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
March 28, 2013
The Future of Nuclear Energy in India: History, Technology, and Economics
M. V. Ramana, Princeton University
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
April 25, 2013
India and the US Pivot to Asia: Strategic Autonomy or Geopolitical Opportunity?
C. Raja Mohan, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
May 1, 2013
Film Screening
Final Solution
Dir. Rakesh Sharma (2004)
7:30 p.m.
101 McCormick Hall
About the film: Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period February-March 2002 and July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through an examination of the carnage wrought on Gujarat in 2002. The pogrom against Muslims took place while Narendra Modi was chief minister of Gujarat. This film examines political tendencies reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the early/mid-1930s.
Cosponsored by the Department of English
Fall 2012
Seminar Series, “Politics and Religion in South Asia”
Tuesday, September 25
Walking Alone: Inequality versus Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore's Thought
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, York University
Noon
213 Aaron Burr Hall
Monday, October 1
Return of a King: The First Anglo-Afghan War and the Birth of the Great Game
William Dalrymple, writer and historian; Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Monday, October 15
Pakistan: Beyond Jihad
Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Thursday, October 18
Intimations of Futurity: Delhi, New Elites and the World
Rana Dasgupta, novelist and essayist
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Thursday, October 25
Pakistan as a Political Idea
Faisal Devji, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Thursday, November 8
Stranded between Government and Opposition: The Politics of India’s Left Front since 1989
Sanjay Ruparelia, The New School
Canceled
Wednesday, November 28
Winston Churchill and the Great Bengal Famine of 1943
Madhusree Mukerjee, author and science journalist
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Thursday, November 29
A Structural Compulsion to Lie: How Corporatization and Corruption in the Media Harm Indian Democracy
P. Sainath, rural affairs editor, The Hindu; lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and McGraw Professor of Writing
Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Tuesday, December 4
What Are You Reading? Power, Prestige and the Business of Intellectual Production
Pavithra Narayanan, Washington State University - Vancouver
Noon
Aaron Burr Hall, 3rd Floor Atrium
Thursday, December 6
Jai Bhim Comrade
Film screening and discussion with the director, Anand Patwardhan
Reception 5:30 p.m.
Screening
6 p.m.
Discussion 8 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice
OTHER EVENTS
Thursday, September 27
Film screening and discussion
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Jim McDonald, Amnesty International USA
8:00 pm
Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
Sponsored by Amnesty International Princeton Area Group;
cosponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies
Monday, October 1
The Histories and Strategies of Translation of the Mahabharata, Great Indian Epic
Frederick Smith, University of Iowa
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored with the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
Tuesday, October 2
A Conversation between William Dalrymple and Gyan Prakash
William Dalrymple, writer and historian; Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council
Gyan Prakash, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History
Noon.
210 Dickinson Hall
Cosponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies and the Department of History
Tuesday, November 13
Film Screening and Discussion
The People's Archive of Rural lndia
P. Sainath, rural affairs editor, The Hindu; lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and McGraw Professor of Writing
6 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Tuesday, December 4
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?
Owen Bennett-Jones, lecturer in the Council of the Humanities
4:30 p.m.
3rd Floor Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall
April 26-27, 2013
Graduate Student Workshop
Modernity and its Discontents: Early Career South Asian Studies Workshop
Keynote speaker: Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University
9:00 a.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Cosponsored with the University Center for Human Values, the Council of the Humanities, and the Center for Collaborative History
