Undergraduate

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.

RAMAYANA: A TALE OF TREES AND WOOD

RAMAYANA: A TALE OF TREES AND WOOD
Sponsored by Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Free admission and open to audiences of all ages

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.

Seeing Dependent Origination in the Moment

Seeing Dependent Origination in the Moment:
The Theravāda Analysis of Paṭiccasamuppāda Within a Single Moment of Cognition and Abhidharma Psychological Theory
with
RUPERT GETHIN
Professor of Buddhist Studies (emeritus), University of Bristol
President, The Pali Text Society

PRFDHR Colloquium: Living in Impermanence, Rizvi Hassan

Life in a refugee camp is often seen as an impermanent thing, where in reality it actually becomes a big part of a refugee’s life. Inclusive and healthy environment in a camp is thus very important for the well-being of both the displaced and host communities. From 2018 to 2022, working with the Rohingya refugees as well as the surrounding Bangladeshi hosting communities in Ukhiya-Teknaf area, has never been about one particular space, but about collaborating together in a crisis situation to overcome the unexpected challenges over time.

Pakistan-US Partnership for Regional Peace and Stability, Ambassador Masood Khan

Ambassador Masood Khan currently serves as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Masood Khan has had a distinguished diplomatic career over the past two decades. He has also served as the President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir from 2016 to 2021. Before serving as the President, he was the Director General of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, one of Pakistan’s top think tanks.

PRFDHR Seminar: Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens, Professor Yang-Yang Zhou

Professor Yang-Yang Zhou will be presenting the research of her new book project ‘Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens’. How are migrants received by host countries and communities? A substantial body of scholarship on migrant reception focuses almost exclusively on majority White citizens in the Global North and their (negative) attitudes towards migrants from the Global South.