Past Events
Spring 2018
February 8, 2018
A lecture by Shilpa Phadke, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor, Brandeis University.
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March 22, 2018
Professor Amita Baviskar, Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi
Soli Sorabjee Lecture
March 23, 2018
10 a.m. Introduction
- Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis)
- Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Brandeis)
10:15 a.m.–12 p.m. Panel 1
- Krishnendu Ray (NYU), Suffering and Social Theory: Limits of Current Critiques of Food Cultures
- James Mchugh (USC), The Varieties of Drunk Experience In Early Medieval South Asia
- Abhay Sardesai (Art India), The Fine Art of Having Fun
- Discussant: Amita Baviskar (IEG, Delhi)
12:30–2:15 p.m. Panel 2
- Shilpa Phadke (TISS, Mumbai), Dull Jills: Women, Work and Fun on the Streets of Mumbai
- Brian Horton (Brown), The Police and the Policed: Queer Crossings in a Bombay Bathroom
- Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts), Dancing Against The Law: Critical Moves in Bangalore’s Queer Nightlife
- Discussant: Pascal Menoret (Brandeis)
2:30–4:15 p.m. Panel 3
- Arti Sandhu (U of Cincinnati), The Guilty Pleasures of Saas-Bahu Style
- Camille Frazier (UCLA), “Money Doesn’t Fascinate Anymore”: Food Cultivation as Productive Leisure Among Bangalore’s Middle Class
- Ajay Gehlawat (Sonoma State), It’s All About Loving Yourself: The Difficult, Carefree Pleasures of Popular Hindi Cinema
- Discussant: Gowri Vijayakumar (Brandeis)
4:15-4:45 p.m. Closing Discussion
Download the event flyer (pdf)April 24, 2018
Previous Years
UDR Film Screening: Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
May 1, 2017
8th Annual Hunt Lecture in Economic Anthropology: “Cheap Tea and the Endurance of Monoculture in the Dooars, India”
April 28, 2017
Featuring Sarah Besky, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Program.
UDR Film Screening: Dhobi Ghat
March 23, 2017
UDR Film Screening: 3 Idiots
December 7, 2016
Meet the SAS Minors + Film Screening
October 6, 2016
Meet the Majors/Minors: GRALL Programs, COML, ECS & SAS
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
’DEIS Impact – Global Racism or Global Ignorance: The Narrative of Color While Studying Abroad
Featuring Marlharrissa Lagardere, 2015-2016 Brandeis-India Fellow
Friday, February 5, 2016
Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS): “Illegible Bodies: Khwaja Sira Activists, the State and Sex/Gender Regulation in Pakistan”
Featuring Faris Khan, Lecturer in Anthropology at Brandeis University
Friday, February 5, 2016
This event was presented by the Department of Anthropology and co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Program, Sexuality and Queer Studies Program, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.
“Learning to Labor:” Left Political Parties, Trade Unions and Female Garment Labor in Bangladesh
Featuring Lamia Karim ’84, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon
Monday, March 30, 2015