Towards Justice

A LECTURE SERIES

Spring Quarter, 2021

Bombay Katta: The City and its Poor

 Sheetal Chhabria (University of Connecticut) and Juned Shaikh (UC Santa Cruz)

May 27, 4:00 – 6:00pm PST

Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (II) Jagged Environments

With Professor Amita Baviskar, (Ashoka University) and professor Gökçe Günel, (Rice University)

May 21, 21 – 20pm PST

Dissent: Farmers, Protest, India

Navyug Gill and Aarti Sethi

May 19, 12:15 – 1:30pm PST

The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Science: Art and Physics in 1950s Bombay

With Professor Dwaipayan Banerjee , (MIT)

April 8, 4 – 6pm PST

Winter Quarter, 2021

Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form

With Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Professor Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts University)

January 15, 10am – 12pm PST

Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas

With Professor Radhika Govindrajan (University of Washington, Seattle)

February 4, 4 – 6pm PST

Speaking Satire to Power: A View from Kashmir

With Artist, Activist, Scholar Mir Suhail 

March 4, 4 – 6pm PST

Fall Quarter, 2020

Folded Corporeal Histories of the Hindi Film Dancer- Actress in the 1950s and 1960s

With Professor Usha Lyer (Stanford University)

October 29, 4 – 6pm PST

The Loss of Hindustan

With Professor Manan Ahmen (Columbia University)

November 12, 4 – 6pm PST