News about upcoming South Asia-related events - March 2017
Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
March 2017
Dear Friends,

Our event line-up for the rest of the semester has changed a little. Newly added events include a talk on Indo-Pacific alliances by Vice Admiral and UC Berkeley alum, Robert Thomas (Mar 7), a presentation by Venkat Srinivasan on a digital science archive experiment that connects archival material, journalistic work, and scientific research (Mar 8), a celebration of International Women's Day with talks by the co-founder of the Acid Survivor's Foundation in Bangladesh, Monira Rahman and Former President of Ms. Foundation for Women, Anika Rahman (Mar 10), Ramachandra Guha (Apr 7), Navanetham Pillay (Apr 11), and Kanak Mani Dixit (May 8). Finally, on May 2, we will celebrate student excellence in the Young Scholars Research Symposium, an event showcasing the work of UC Berkeley students who have finished their theses on diverse topics related to South Asia. All new events are marked with a "new" in the list below. Please make a note of them and save the dates on your calendars. 

Unfortunately, one event had to be canceled: Our inaugural Institute for South Asia Studies-Vedanta Society Berkeley Lecture on Religion in the Modern World by famed Tibetologist, Prof. Robert A. F. Thurman is no longer happening due to his ill health. We hope to reschedule Prof. Thurman's lecture in Fall 2017 and will let you know once the new date is finalized.

In other news, we are happy to announce a new award: The Outstanding Paper Prize in Bangladesh Studies. Established by the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies with the aim of promoting US Berkeley student research on Bangladesh, this award will recognize the best paper in any discipline (though preference will be given to papers in a social science field) that focuses on Bangladesh or Bangladesh-related topics. For further details on submission deadline and application instructions please click the box on the right.

March Events
  1. POSTPONED: Friday, March 3, 2017
    Prof. Robert Thurman delivers the inaugural ISAS-VSB Lecture on Religion in the Modern World
    New date | time | venue TBD
     
  2. NEW: Tuesday, March 07, 2017
    Vice Admiral Robert L. Thomas, Jr. | Alliances In The Indo-Pacific: A Practitioner's Perspective
    4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
     
  3. NEW: Wednesday, March 8, 2017
    Venkat Srinivasan | Thirteen Ways of Looking at Institutional History: Building Varying Digital Narratives from Interconnected Science Archives
    12-1:30 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
     
  4. Friday, March 10, 2017 @ Noon
    Katherine Schofield | The Place of Pleasure: Music in Mughal Thought and Society, 1593–1707
    12-2 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
     
  5. NEW: Friday, March 10, 2017 @ 5 pm
    Celebrating International Women's Day: With talks by Co-founder of the Acid Survivor's Foundation in Bangladesh, Monira Rahman and Former President and CEO of Ms. Foundation for Women, Anika Rahman
    5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall (Note Location Change)
     
  6. Thursday, March 16, 2017
    Isha Ray and Robin Marsh | Adaptation and Recovery after the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: A Smallholder Household Perspective
    5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
     
  7. Wednesday, March 22, 2017
    South Asian Perspectives: Updates on Development and Democracy from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal
    5-7 p.m. | Faculty Club, Seaborg Room (Note Location Change)
April Events
  1. Thursday, April 6, 2017
    Thomas Blom Hansen | Urban Theory goes South: On the Historicity of Space and Urban Imagination in South Asia
    5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
     
  2. NEW: Friday, April 07, 2017
    India at Seventy - A Historian's Report Card: The Inaugural Bhattacharya Lecture on the "Future of India" by Ramachandra Guha
    6-8 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
     
  3. NEW: Tuesday, April 11, 2017
    Navanetham Pillay | Advancing Human Rights in a Rightward World: Challenges for International Institutions and Civil Society
    5-7 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Goldberg Room
     
  4. Thursday, April 13, 2017
    Sacred Singing: A Baul Performance by Parvathy Baul
    6-8 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
     
  5. Friday, April 14 - Saturday, April 15, 2017
    Offense! The Public Life of Injury in South Asia: The 6th South Asia by the Bay Graduate Student Conference
    9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. |  Stanford University
     
  6. Thursday, April 20, 2017
    Kirti Jain | Performing Partition: On Producing "Aur Kitne Tukde" (How Many Fragments?)
    5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
May Events
  1. NEW: Tuesday, May 02, 2017
    Young Scholars Research Symposium: A celebration of student excellence
    4-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
     
  2. NEW: Monday, May 8, 2017
    Kanak Mani Dixit | South Asian Regionalism under the Modi Government
    5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
As always, all ISAS events are video recorded and made available for viewing on our website. Newly added lectures are LSE Anthropologist, Mukulika Banerjee's, The Social Imaginaries of Democracy: Scandal, Competition and Cooperation, Professor of English and World Literatures at Oxford, Ankhi Mukherjee's Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor, and independent political and defense analyst from Pakistan, Ayesha Siddiqa's Pakistan: Civil-Military Relations in a Changing Domestic, Regional and Global Environment.

We look forward to seeing you at the ISAS!

a Chowdhury Center event: 
Sacred Singing: A Baul Performance by Parvathy Baul

A Baul music performance by the mesmerizing musician and storyteller from Bengal, Parvathy Baul 

Thursday, April 13
6-8 pm
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center


India at Seventy
A Historian's Report Card


The Inaugural Bhattacharya Lecture on the "Future of India"
by Indian Historian and Author, Ramachandra Guha

Friday, April 7
6-8 pm
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall


A Pakistan@Berkeley event
Katherine Schofield
The Place of Pleasure: Music in Mughal Thought and Society, 1593–1707

Friday, March 10 @ noon
12-2 pm
10 Stephens Hall


a Chowdhury Center event
Celebrating International Women's Day: With talks by Bangladeshi Human Rights' Activists, Monira Rahman and Anika Rahman

A panel presentation on women's issues in Bangladesh moderated by Prof. Raka Ray

Friday, March 10 @ 5pm
5-7 p.m
10 Stephens Hall (Note location change)


Mukulika Banerjee
Associate Prof. Anthropology, LSE

Ankhi Mukherjee
Prof., English, Oxford University

Ayesha Siddiqa
Military Analyst
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