Role of Animal Metaphors in Indian Advertisements
Event Time: Wed, 05/02/2018 - 3:30pm to 5:30pmDr. Meraj Ahmed, who received his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University, teaches Hindi-Urdu language and literature in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures at UMN.
Abstract:Metaphors are concerned with making a connection...
Film Screening of Bidesia in Bambai
Event Time: Wed, 04/18/2018 - 3:30pm to 5:30pmSynopsis:
Bidesia is Bhojpuri for ‘the one who leaves home’. One in four migrants in Mumbai is Bhojpuri, a people from the north Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Bambai is their name for Mumbai/Bombay.
The...
The Moneylender's Power: Monetary Debt and Social Obligation in Contemporary Vidarbha
Event Time: Fri, 04/13/2018 - 3:30pm AARTI SETHI, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995, a majority of deaths concentrated in the central Indian cotton belt of Vidarbha. The post-liberalization...'I Prick The Heart of God Like a Thorn': Manto's "Bu" and the Undermining of Romance
Event Time: Wed, 03/21/2018 - 3:30pmEmily Durham, PhD candidate in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures
Saadat Hasan Manto's commitment to political causes has been doubted by critics and admirers alike, in part because of his consistent refusal to romanticize...
"Nature's present: Ecology, society, and politics in contemporary India."
Event Time: Mon, 03/05/2018 - 4:00pmPresented by: Manesh Rangarajan, Professor of History and Dean of Academic Affairs, Ashoka University
Abstract: A quarter century since economic reform began, the issues of the environment loom large in Indian public life....
Pakistani Hindus: Tracing the making of a minority in Post-Colonial South Asia 1947-1971
Event Time: Wed, 02/21/2018 - 4:00pmDr. Sadia Mahmood, Fulbright Scholar at Chaplain College
Sadia is currently working on her first monograph, tentatively called: Pakistani Hindus, The Making of a Minority (1947-1971). Since the founding of the post-colonial state, there...
Film Screening "Demons in Paradise" (2017) and Discussion with Filmmaker Jude Ratnam
Event Time: Wed, 02/14/2018 - 4:00pmScreening of the film "Demons in Paradise" (2017) and discussion with filmmaker, Jude Ratnam
Facilitated by: Professor V.V. Ganeshananthan, Department of English
For the first time, a Tamil filmmaker living in Sri...
Love, Sex, and Transgression: The Feminist Writer and Issues of Representation
Event Time: Wed, 11/15/2017 - 3:00pmAbstract: My play ‘Ismat’s Love Stories’ (2017) originated from my fascination with Ismat Chughtai’s negotiations with her iconic story ‘Lihaf’ (The Quilt) (1941). Celebrated as one of the earliest...
His Master’s Voice and Other Questions of Fidelity
Event Time: Wed, 02/15/2017 - 4:00pmPresented by Christi A Merrill Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory Department of Comparative Literature Department of Asian Languages and Culture University of Michigan
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Sexuality and the Science of Kinship in Colonial India
Event Time: Wed, 12/07/2016 - 3:00pmWednesday, December 7
Discussion of Durba Mitra's Sexuality and the Science of Kinship in Colonial India
3-4:30 pm