Events
SAP hosts a weekly seminar series. For the Spring 2026 semester, we are hosting in-person events, typically at 12:15 pm Mondays in G08 Uris Hall. All events are open to the public. All times Eastern (New York) Time.
Videos of many past events are available on our YouTube playlist.
Our annual Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature features an author from South Asia or its diasporas. We also partner with Cornell student organizations to bring South Asian musicians, dancers, and other artists for campus performances.
Upcoming Events
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about Global Internships, funding opportunities, study abroad, language study and the Language Resource Center, international minors, and more.
The International Fair is…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Robert Travers
In around 1818 in Allahabad, an ageing munshi, Sadasukh ‘Niyazi’ Dihlawi, formerly in the employ of the British East India Company, wrote an unusual and salacious Persian history of the age of Mughal decline and British expansionism. This talk reads Munshi Sadasukh’s little-known text…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Uzma Zafar (Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Rochester)
This talk explores nationalist temporalities of gender in Muslim transmasculine religiosity. Granted citizenship by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, transgender people have become an affective…
4:30 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
Radhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Washington.
Radhika Govindrajan is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, gender and sexuality, the anthropology of religion, South Asian…
3:00 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
Parijat is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology, with graduate minors in Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He is a cultural and environmental anthropologist whose research examines agrarian and ecological transformation in the Western Himalayas. His…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Nikhit Agrawal
Since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was adopted, agriculture has gained prominence in global climate negotiations, both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a potential contributor to reducing them through carbon storage and sequestration. In the past decade, hundreds of…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Meghna Chaudhuri (History, Davidson University)
In this talk, I will present research that clues us into reframing the agrarian in colonial, and early post-colonial South Asia - as not merely a space where material production of grain and food occurs but as a key site of experiments with finance…