Kamran Asdar Ali, Director
WCH 4.132, Mailcode G9300, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-3550
Seminar Series Recordings
South Asia Seminar Series
Spring 2007 | Fall 2007 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2008 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2011
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Transforming Social Identity in South India: the Reception and Re-creation of Musical Liberation Theology by Dalit Villagers
Feb 1,2007 -
Braceros and Techno-Braceros: Mexican and Indian guest Workers in the mid-and late 20th-century United States
Feb 8,2007 -
Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present
Mar 1,2007 -
Narrating Helical Stories: Genetics, Nation, and the Politics of Belonging
Mar 8,2007 -
Religious Change and Political Institutions in Gujarat, c. 1400-1550
Mar 29,2007 -
Stars, Styles & the Political: Towards a Theory of Cosmoplastics
Apr 5,2007 -
Identity in Crisis or Crisis as Identity: Notes on the Margins of the Sri Lankan Civil War
Apr 19,2007 -
Travancore In The Annals Of The Cold War, 1945-47
Aug 30,2007 -
Convincing Combinations: "Voice" in Shi'i Genres of Iran and South Asia
Sep 6,2007 -
An Orientalist Lost and Found: F.W. Ellis and the Dravidian Language Family
Sep 13,2007 -
Casting a Shadow? India's Knowledge Economy
Sep 20,2007 -
Economies of Knowledge: Genre, Performance, and Globalization in the South Asian Context
Oct 1,2007 -
Women with Swords, Women with Guns: Fierce Funny Women in South India and the U.S.
Oct 4,2007 -
HIV/AIDS and the Gendering of Stigma in Tamil Nadu, South India
Oct 18,2007 -
The Anthology as a Social Artifact: Rethinking Ethics in Medieval India
Oct 25,2007 -
Imperial Modernity: Power and Inequality in the Space of Globalization
Nov 1,2007 -
Comparative Assassinations: The Changing Moral Economy of Political Killing in South Asia
Nov 8,2007 -
Vernacular Cosmopolis: Spaces of Cultural Memory in a Globalizing Tamil Village
Nov 15,2007 -
Civis Britannicus: The Strange Death of an Imperial Ideal
Jan 31,2008 -
Bangladesh as a Model of Development
Feb 14,2008 -
Spices and Scales of Analysis: Social Networks in Pre-Modern Asian History
Feb 28,2008 -
Women, Work and Public Spaces: Conflict and Co-existence Among Karachi's Poor
Mar 6,2008 -
Nation Impossible
Mar 20,2008 -
A Local Cosmopolitan: Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and the invention of Europe
Apr 10,2008 -
The Future of The City in South Asia
Apr 15,2008 -
Recent Trends in Indian Architecture and Urbanism
Apr 17,2008 -
Inter-state Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Round Table on Future Trends
Apr 24,2008 -
Bangladesh and India: Riddles of sovereignty, legacies of misperception
May 1,2008 -
Seminar Series Fall 2008 Reception & Performance
Aug 28,2008 -
Saying More: Innuendo and Constructions of Female Stardom in Indian Cinema of the 1930s
Sep 4,2008 -
A Hindu "Mythological" in the Parsi Theatre: Betab's Mahabharat
Sep 18,2008 -
Framing Feelings: Landscapes of Affective Expression in Tamil Cinema
Sep 25,2008 -
Telugu Javali Songs: Songs to Cinema
Oct 2,2008 -
Lessons from Hell: Popular Hindu Imagery and Governmentality
Nov 13,2008 -
Architecture and Power in the Deccan: an Historical Typology
Jan 29,2009 -
Nano: The Story of the Big 'Small Car'
Feb 12,2009 -
Strangers within our Borders: Human (in) security in South Asia
Feb 19,2009 -
Airstrikes and the Airwaves:Charting the Political and Media Landscapes in Pakistan
Apr 2,2009 -
Citizenship in a Looking-Glass World
Apr 8,2009 -
The Partition’s Long Shadow: Politics of the Blurred Citizen-Alien
Apr 16,2009 -
Form, Style, and Rhetoric in an Early Fourth-Century Tamil Anthology
Sep 24,2009 -
Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism in Tamil Nadu
Oct 1,2009 -
Crisis in the Classics
Oct 8,2009 -
Building a Polity: Royal Architecture and Authority in Colonial Era Kerala
Oct 29,2009 -
Burnouf and the Birth of Buddhist Studies
Nov 5,2009 -
Modern Roots, Ancient Branches: The Bhakti Movement--Since When?
Nov 12,2009 -
Nawab Shah Jehan Begum of Bhopal: Becoming a Muslim Ruler in Colonial India
Nov 19,2009 -
An Inconvenient Text: On Translating the Rigveda
Dec 3,2009 -
Regional Literary Cultures and the Concept of Pakistan: A View from Bengal 1940-1947
Feb 4,2010 -
Dangerous Solidarities: the aesthetics of Indian literary nationalism
Feb 18,2010 -
Decolonization and Politics
Mar 4,2010 -
Covering India: Illustrations of a Nation in Transition
Mar 25,2010 -
The Postcolonial Information City: Technologies of Fear in Contemporary India
Apr 1,2010 -
Mythological Speech: Cinema and the Affective Foundations of Mass Mobilization in South India
Apr 15,2010 -
Beautiful Balloon: The Digital Divide and the Charisma of New Media in India
Apr 29,2010 -
Beautiful Balloon: The Digital Divide and the Charisma of New Media in India
Apr 29,2010 -
Unsettling India: Impersonation, Mobility, Identity
May 6,2010 -
Unsettling India: Impersonation, Mobility, Identity
Jun 10,2010 -
Locating the Ascetic's Habitat: Toward a Micro-comparison of Religious Discourses
Sep 16,2010 -
India's Earliest Writings: A Slightly New Perspective on Ashokan Inscriptions
Sep 23,2010 -
Entrepreneurial Dreams of a (not so neo) Liberal Nepal
Oct 21,2010 -
Energy in India: Growth, Politics, and Reforms
Oct 28,2010 -
Science, Religion and the Ideology of Urban Governance: Ahmedabad City, India
Nov 4,2010 -
Globalization and Regional Cinemas in India
Nov 11,2010 -
Transformations of a Heroic History: Prithviraj Cauhan in Colonial India
Nov 18,2010 -
From War Stories to Pulp: Encounters with Bangladeshi Fiction
Jan 27,2011 -
Post-War ‘Settlements’: Locating Cultural Interventions in Sri Lanka
Feb 17,2011 -
The Other's Tongue: Separateness, Hybridity, and the Literary Politics of the Anglophone
Mar 3,2011 -
The Making of a Post-Partition/Postcolonial Muslim: A Novelist’s Journey in Times of Violence
Mar 10,2011 -
Universal Translation: Or, The Importance of Getting it Wrong
Mar 24,2011 -
The Literary and Linguistic Renaissance in Kashmir
Apr 7,2011 -
The Difficult Art of Diasporic Authorship
Apr 21,2011 -
An Ocean in a Tea-spoon? On Anthologizing Indian Literature
Apr 28,2011 -
The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan over the last decade
Oct 13,2011 -
Meherjaan, Aesthetic Solution to Violence: Challenging Patriarchal Nationalism
Oct 27,2011 -
Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Nov 11,2011 -
Spring 2010 Seminar Series.pdf
Dec 31,1969



