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October 28, 2016

The Dargah Culture in Ajmer Sharif: An Antidote to Hindu-Muslim Conflicts?

10.28.2016 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM |  Institute for South Asia Studies Conference Room, 10 Stephens Hall

with Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris: Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the India Institute, King College, London.

April 16, 2016

Columbus Goes East: Renaming Palestine

04.12.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM |  Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall

with Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit University and Fulbright Scholar, 2015-1016, at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

Discussant: Samera Esmeir, Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

March 3, 2016

Political Conflict and Gender Rights in South Asia

03.03.2016 | 5:00 – 7:00 PM |  170 Boalt Hall

with Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Event Introduced by Professor Evelyn Nakano GlennDirector, Center for Race and Gender and Professor (Emerita), Departments of Ethnic Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies