Events
SAP hosts a weekly seminar series. For the Spring 2024 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, now held in the spring, 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
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by David Engerman (History, Yale University)
Apostles of Development offers a history of international development through the lives and work of six South Asian economists who all studied together in Cambridge in the 1950s. They were an illiustrious group, with long careers and many succeses: winning a…
5:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
4:00 pm
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2:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
4:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Sadia Mahmood, South Asia Program, Cornell University
Mainstream historiography on South Asia has largely overlooked the afterlives of the colonial Enemy Property regime in postcolonial India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Drawing on archival records from Pakistan and India, as well as oral accounts from…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Llerena Guiu Searle (Anthropology, University of Rochester)
In order to build a more just world order, philosopher Olúfémi Táíwo argues that we must contend with the fact that our current social order builds on relations of colonialism that did not end with colonial independence in the 1940s-1960s.…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Rahul Sagar (Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi)
Letters to an Indian Raja (1891) was the first work of political theory to be published in modern India. It advised Maharajas to introduce liberal values and constitutional government in the self-governing Native States. Such reform would, it argued,…