Graduate And Professional

Anthony Acciavatti: Drawing Like a Tubewell: When Water Percolates and Oozes Through Soil

The core of the Agrarian Studies Program’s activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.

This topic embraces, inter alia, the study of mutual perceptions between countryside and city, and patterns of cultural and material exchange, extraction, migration, credit, legal systems, and political order that link them.

Aarti Sethi: The Suspicious Suicide: Masculinity, Pesticide, and the Political Economy of Hybrid Cotton in Central India

The core of the Agrarian Studies Program’s activities is a weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Invited specialists send papers in advance that are the focus of an organized discussion by the faculty and graduate students associated with the colloquium.
This topic embraces, inter alia, the study of mutual perceptions between countryside and city, and patterns of cultural and material exchange, extraction, migration, credit, legal systems, and political order that link them.

PRFDHR Seminar: Foodways and Placemaking Among Muslim South Asian Women in the US, Professor Farha Ternikar

This talk by Professor Farha Ternikar explores the significance of foodways for Muslim Indian immigrant women in the United States. As an Indian Muslim researcher, mindful of her insider-outsider status, she uses participant observation with Muslim South Asian American women in Tampa to do this research together in the community. Immigration continues to be a debated issue across the US, but especially in states like Florida, where food can be used to understand how Muslim South Asian women navigate community and identity.

India in the World Economy: What Next?

The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host the panel discussion, “India in the World Economy: What Next?” 
Suman Bery, vice-chairman of India’s national government strategic body, is the featured speaker. Discussants include Srinath Raghavan, visiting professor at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and the Yale MacMillan Center, South Asian Studies Council, and Jessica Seddon, a Jackson School Senior Fellow. It will be chaired by David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History and Global Affairs.

The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia

International Security Studies co-sponsors a conversation with Christopher Clary on the rivalry between India and Pakistan from 1947 to today. Clary’s book, “The Difficult Politics of Peace: Rivalry in Modern South Asia,” provides a systematic examination of war-making and peace-building in South Asia, ultimately explaining the two countries’ enduring rivalry through domestic politics that overshadow strategic interests.

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