Past Events
On November 19, 2011, SASA presented their annual cultural show, MELA. The show included dance, music, spoken word and other performances based upon the theme "Pehchaan", a Hindi word meaning "identity."
On November 2, 2011, Professor Jyoti Puri from Simmons College presented the Fall 2011 Soli Sorabjee Lecture in South Asian Studies titled "Racialized Communalisms, Criminalized Queers, and the Police in Contemporary India". Read more about the lecture here.
On March 23, 2011, Dr. Maina Chawla Singh (American University / New Delhi University) presented a lecture titled "Being Israeli: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland" based upon her scholarship "Writing Our Lives: Migration Narratives of Indian-Jewish Women".
On April 13, 2011, Brandeis hosted a screening of the documentary "Made In India" about the human experiences behind the phenomena of "outsourcing" surrogate mothers to India.
Upcoming Events
MusicUnitesUs Residency: Improvisations
March 7-10, 2012
World Music Concert: Saturday, March 10, 8:00 pm, Slosberg Recital Hall
Master performers virtuosically reunite two historically kindred stringed instruments through the common language of raga and tala. Featuring Homayun Sakhi, Afghan rubâb; Ken Zuckerman, sarod; Salar Nader, tabla.
Spring Soli Sorabjee Lecture in South Asian Studies: Bina Agarwal Monday, March 19, 2012
5:30 pm, Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Agarwal is a prize-winning feminist economist who studies gender, development, and agriculture in India and throughout South Asia. She writes about changing the framework of traditional economics to include women and implicit power relationships in decision making found in patriarchical societies. More details to come!
MFA Boston Presents Lectures by Professor Harleen Singh
Wednesday April 4 & Wednesday, April 11, 2012
1 pm, Remis Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Co-Chair of the Brandeis South Asian Studies program, and the Helaine and Alvin Allen Assistant Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies, Professor Harleen Singh will present two lectures as part of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston course series A Visual Journey Through India: Past and Present. She will speak on April 4 and 11, in talks titled Indian Cinema: the Musical Melodrama of the Nation, and Telling the Indian Tale in English.