(Public Seminar)

October 4, 2024 11AM EST
via Zoom

Mythri Jegathesan
(Santa Clara University)
&
Waqas Butt
(University of Toronto)

(Book Talk)

October 17, 2024 12:30PM EST
in person at NYU Anthropology, Rm, 706 and via Zoom

Omar Kasmani
(Freie Universität Berlin)
in conversation with
E. Gabriel Dattatreyan
(New York University)

(co-sponsored with NYU Anthropology)

(Graduate Student Workshop)

November 6, 2024 9AM EST
via Zoom

Shashwati Talukdar
(Four Nine and a Half Pictures)
&
P. Kerim Friedman
(National Dong Hwa University)

[Applications due October 15]

(co-sponsored with NYU Program in Culture and Media)

(Public Seminar)

December 3, 2024 11:00AM EST

Amita Baviskar
(Ashoka University)

&

Roderick Wijunamai
(Cornell University)

(Roundtable)

February 21, 2025 10:30 AM EST
via Zoom

Asmita Shrish
(Filmmaker, Brown Girls Doc Mafia)

Jaremdi Wati Longchar (Ao Naga)
(Ethnomusicologist and Program Manager, The Everything Network)

Satej Chakma
(Chief Reporter, Indigenous Peoples’ News)

Moderated by
Sneha Mundari (Munda)
(National Institute of Design and Goldsmiths)

(Graduate Student Workshop)

March 20, 2025 10AM EST
via Zoom

Tejaswini Ganti (New York University)

[Applications due February 15]

(Public Seminar)

April 11, 2025 11am EST
via Zoom

Yulia Egorova
(Durham University)

&

Sanghamitra Das
(University of Chicago)

(Public Roundtable)

May 2, 2025 10AM EST
via Zoom

Naman P. Ahuja
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Mauela Ciotti
(Universty of Vienna)

Tapati Guha-Thakurta
(Center for Studies in Social Sciences)

Kajri Jain
(University of Toronto)

Moderated by
Saloni Mathur
(University of California, Los Angeles)

(Public Seminar)

September 22, 2023 10:30AM EST

Matthew Hull (U. Michigan)
&
Maira Hayat (U. Notre Dame)

Co-Sponsors: NYU Anthropology

(for Graduate Students)

October 10, 2023 10:30AM EST

An open invitation for graduate students working on South Asia-related projects to meet and exchange ideas.

We request participants to please bring one piece of media (e.g., photo, short video, audio recording, object) to share an aspect of your research in lightning-round introductions.

(Graduate Student Workshop)

November 10, 2023 9AM EST

E. Gabriel Dattatreyan (NYU Program in Culture & Media)

(Public Seminar)

November 21, 2023 7:30PM EST

Malini Sur (Western Sydney U.)
&
Sahana Ghosh (N. U. Singapore)

Co-Sponsor: NYU Office of Student Life

(Special Public Event)

December 14, 2023 10:30 AM EST

Roundtable on Trans* Legal Activism in South Asia featuring:

Pema Dorji (Queer Voices of Bhutan, Thimphu)
, Tara Asgar (Independent Artist and Activist, NY/Bangladesh), 
Mehrub Moiz Awan (Gender Interactive Alliance, Pakistan)
 & Vikramaditya Sahai (Visiting Faculty, Literary Art, Ambedkar University, Delhi)

Moderated by Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts U.).

Co-sponsor: NYU Gallatin

Collaborator: Feminism in India

(Public Seminar)

February 2, 2024 - 10:30 AM EST

Frank Cody (U. Toronto)
&
Amrita Ibrahim (Georgetown)

Moderated by Arvind Rajagopal (NYU)

Co-Sponsor: NYU Anthropology

(for Graduate Students)

February 9, 2024 - 10:30 AM EST

An informal opportunity to meet with MERiSA co-organizers and senior graduate students to learn and share about resources and opportunities for media-centered PhD research on South Asia.

Salwa Hoque (PhD Candidate, NYU MCC) and MERiSA co-organizers Tierney Brown (PhD Candidate, NYU Anthropology), Matthew Raj Webb (PhD Candidate, NYU Anthropology), and Rohan Sengupta (PhD Candidate, NYU Anthropology).

(Public Book Talk)

March 14, 2024 - 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM EST

Suchitra Vijayan (NYU Gallatin, and Executive Director of The Polis Project) in conversation with Gabriel Dattatreyan (NYU Anthropology and Culture and Media) about her new book: How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press, 2023).

(Public Seminar)

March 29, 2024 - 10:30 AM EST


Ramsha Usman (UCSB)

&

Sandeep Mertia (U. Penn)

in conversation with

Lilly Irani (UCSD)

(Special Public Performance and Discussion)

June 20, 2024 - 11 AM EST

Advance reading of the new stageplay “Iron Aurataan” [Iron Women], produced by Sohaya Visions under the artistic direction of anthropologist and playwright Raminder Kaur (U. Sussex).

Followed by Q&A with the playwright and performers.


Co-sponsors:
NYU Center for Media, Culture &
History, NYU Tisch Performance Studies, and NYU Global Asia.