Past Events
Samira Chatila will talk about whether high levels of formal education lead to human capital development.
Join the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy and the Human Rights Center - Law School for a panel discussion about struggles for environmental, racial, and gender justice in Colombia, Ecuador, and the U.S.
Francesca Orsini will talk about how we can reassemble the languages and oral and written textual traditions that colonial ideas of language and modern literary histories have separated.
Sumangala Damodaran will talk about how a corpus of music from mid-1980s India onwards come to address and re-constellate questions of nation, identity and politics in a refreshing manner, challenging right-wing cultural assertions frontally, and also shaping popular music listening cultures in the country through providing contemporary interpretations.
Karina Horsti will talk about the complex ways in which relatives of those who died at Europe’s borders creatively navigate the afterlives of these deaths.
SherAli Tareen will talk about his recently published book Perilous Intimacies on how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Jules Marzec will examine the femicide of María Belén Bernal's 2022 murder in Ecuador and the subsequent state response characterized by a strategic instrumentalization of women.
Nada Mohamed will talk about how oppressed persons sometimes perpetuate epistemic harms on each other, even within progressive spaces through three forms of silencing.
Harsha Anantharaman will present his ethnographic research exploring the convergence of caste and capital logics in the context of urban India’s transforming infrastructural labor regimes of Solid-Waste-Management (SWM).
Join special guests and artists from In the Heart of the Beast, Open Eye Theatre, and Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop in a conversation that celebrates the transformative potential of puppetry and its ability to bring communities together.