OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Center for South Asia Studies


  • Center for South Asia Studies Annual Reception (9/10/2008)
  • Conference 2nd FDRI/Berkeley Seminar on Indian Democracy Justice and the Law (9/26/2008 - 9/27/2008)
  • CSAS Public Lecture by Vijay Prasad The Assassination of the Third World and the Promise of the Global South (10/8/2008)
  • Music concert and film screening Desert Dhun -- The Sounds of Rajasthan (10/9/2008 - 10/10/2008)
  • Book reading by renowned author Amitav Ghosh The Sea of Poppies (11/10/2008)
  • CSAS Public Lecture by Palagummi Sainath, the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts Slouching Tiger, Crouching Crisis Inequality, the Farm crisis and the Media (11/13/2008)
  • Conference Recovering Afghanistans Past Cultural Heritage in Context (11/14/2008 - 11/15/2008)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Sanjyot Mehendale, a UC Berkeley professor, with slide presentation Afghan Art and Artifacts -- Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul (11/15/2008)
  • Film screening Ninas Heavenly Delights (11/20/2008)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Aloka Parasher-Sen Beyond Caste -- Travelers on the Indian Subcontinent in Early Historic Times (12/4/2008)
  • Documentary screening Sanjay Kaks Jashn-e-Azadi How We Celebrate Freedom (12/12/2008)
  • History Through Literature Working Group - Early Story Collections -- Jataka Tales (1/10/2009)
  • The Kabir Festival Film screening Had-Anhad Bound-Unbound - Journeys with Ram and Kabir (2/5/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Davesh Soneji Salon to Cinema -- Telugu Javali Poems in Colonial South India (2/9/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Janaki Nair An Illusion of Permanence-- Visualizing Legitimacy in Princely Mysore (2/24/2009)
  • The Kabir Festival Film Screening Koi Sunta Hai Someone is Listening - Journeys with Kumar and Kabir (2/26/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Nile Green Among the Dissenters -- Reciprocal Ethnography in Nineteenth Century Inglistan (2/27/2009)
  • Special Event India Rising -- Tradition Meets Modernity (2/27/2009 - 2/28/2009)
  • CSAS Public Lecture by Ashis Nandy Coming Home -- Religion, Mass Violence and Exiled and Secret Selves (3/3/2009)
  • Colloquium Contemporary Bhutan -- Culture and Buddhism (3/4/2009)
  • Symposium Berkeley and the World -- 50 years of International Education (3/6/2009)
  • Graduate Student Workshop led by Dr. Ashis Nandy Violence and Creativity (3/7/2009)
  • CSAS Public Lecture by Dr. Ashis Nandy States of Mind -- India, Pakistan and other States without Nations in South Asia (3/9/2009)
  • CSAS Religion and Society lecture by Heidi Pauwels Washington University The Saint, the Warlord and the Emperor -- Discourses of Braj Bhakti and Rajput Loyalty (3/9/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Anasuya Sengupta Vicious States, Virtuous States? -- The paradoxes of policing in India (3/10/2009)
  • Documentary Screening Project Kashmir with Directors Senain Khesgi and Geeta Patel present (3/13/2009)
  • CSAS Religion and Society Lecture by Chris Minkowski Early Modern Science in India -- Two Astronomers - Nilakantha and Nityananda (3/17/2009)
  • The Kabir Festival Film screening Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein In the Market Stands Kabir - Journeys with Sacred and Secular Kabir (3/19/2009)
  • CSAS Art and Culture Series Serendipitous Encounters -- A solo exhibition of paintings by Manish Pushkale (3/21/2009)
  • CSAS Public Lecture by Hamid Mir The Resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan (4/1/2009)
  • CSAS Religion and Society Lecture by Vasudha Narayanan Kambujas connections with Kanchi and Kampan (4/2/2009)
  • CSAS Co-Sponsored Lecture The Mind and Heart of the Dalai Lama -- A Conversation Between Pico Iyer and Paul Ekman (4/7/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student COlloquia Lecture by George Hart The World in 15 Lines -- Love Poems from a 2000-year-old Tamil Anthology (4/14/2009)
  • CSAS Art and Culture Lec-Dem by Devendra Sharma Nautanki -- Bringing Back Indias Lost Opera (4/17/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Anthropologist Mark Holmstrom A Cure for Loneliness? -- Networks, Trust, and Shared Services in Bangalore (4/24/2009)
  • Conference Pandi Nadu - Land of the Pandyas Fifth Annual Tamil Conference (4/25/2009 - 4/26/2009)
  • Special Event Multimedia Exhibit INDUStry Stories -- audio and visual journeys of indian entrepreneurs in the silicon valley (4/28/2009 - 5/8/2009)
  • CSAS Public Lecture by Abid Hassan Minto The Pakistani Crisis -- On the current situation in the sub-continent and India-Pakistan Relations (4/29/2009)
  • The Kabir Festival Film Screening Chalo Hamara Des Come to my Country - Journeys with Kabir and Friends (4/30/2009)
  • The Kabir Festival Live Music Concert Kabir in Song - Nirguni Bhajans performed by Prahlad Singh Tipanya and Party (5/1/2009)
  • 4th Annual Urdu Culture Show (5/3/2009)
  • CSAS Faculty and Student Colloquia Lecture by Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum Cultures of Servitude -- Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (5/7/2009)
  • Symposium Perspectives on an Evolving India (5/9/2009)
  • Special Event Book Release Celebrating the Life and Work of a Poet -- Ved Prakash Vatuk (5/20/2009)
  • Special Event Bangla Musical Song of the Tree -- An arboreal tale (5/21/2009)
  • Film Screening Bhopal Express (5/28/2009)
  • Workshop Elderhostel - The Power Triangle of India, China and the U.S. (5/31/2009 - 6/6/2009)
  • CSAS Art and Culture Series Theater Surya ki antim kiran se Surya ki pehli kiran tak From Dusk until Dawn (6/20/2009 - 6/28/2009)
  • ORIAS 2009 Summer K-12 Teachers World History Institute Visible Power -- Art in National Life (7/27/2009 - 7/31/2009)
  • Center for South Asia Studies Annual Reception (9/10/2009)
  • An Evening with Social Activist and Author Dr. Anil Awachat (9/15/2009)
  • Regulating Islam in Pakistan - The Role of the Council of Islamic Ideology in regulating Islam in Pakistan. (9/15/2009)
  • The Legacy of Son Preference and Daughter Dislike Perspectives from South Asian Communities (9/16/2009)
  • Performing Arts Rhythm of Rajasthan - Mesmerizing music and dance from the great Thar Desert in Rajasthan (9/17/2009)
  • An Evening With Artist, Bari Kumar (9/28/2009)
  • An Evening with Artist, Jatin Das and famed collector of South Asian Contemporary Art, Dipti Mathur. (10/5/2009)
  • Politics and New Media in the Muslim World (10/15/2009)
  • The War Against Terror Five Reasons for the Persistence of Anti-Americanism in Pakistan (10/16/2009)
  • Liberalization and Regulation of Capital Flows Lessons for Emerging Market Economies (10/29/2009)
  • Ek Raat Hamarey Saath One Night With Us (10/31/2009)
  • 3rd Is Seventh Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival (11/5/2009 - 11/8/2009)
  • Emerging Bangladesh Opportunities and Challenges for Bangladeshs Future. (11/12/2009)
  • Kalai Tamil Performance Conference (11/14/2009)
  • Book Reading by author, Sunaina Maira Missing -- Youth, Citizenship and Empire after 9/11 (11/16/2009)
  • Mission Suhani Nautanki Performance (11/19/2009 - 11/22/2009)
  • Documentary screening and lecture Bad Girl with a Heart of Gold -- Tracing the journeys of four characters played by Bollywood icon, Helen, in the Hindi films of the 60s and 70s. (12/2/2009)
  • Lecture and Photography Exhibit Through a Glass Darkly -- Colonial Images of Burma (12/2/2009)
  • Lecture Nature Worship, Communitarian Ethos and Sustainability -- Sacred Groves and Sustainable Living in South Asia (12/4/2009)
  • Cultural Show Images of India (12/5/2009)
  • Panel Discussion INDOvations -- Driving Global Innovations from Emerging Markets (1/25/2010)
  • Lecture Books vs. Bombs? (2/11/2010)
  • Colloquium afp-ki-stn -- The Violent Birth of an Acronym (2/12/2010)
  • Information Session San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative (2/16/2010)
  • Lecture Unraveling Romance in Naipauls A House for Mr. Biswas (2/18/2010)
  • Colloquium afp-ki-stn -- The Violent Birth of an Acronym (2/19/2010)
  • Conference Asia -- Shifting the Global Center of Gravity (2/20/2010)
  • Lecture The Inaugural Sarah Kailath Memorial Lecture by SF District Attorney, Kamala Harris on Women and Leadership (2/21/2010)
  • Lecture Absenteeism, Transfers and Patronage -- The Political Economy of Teacher Labor Markets in India (2/25/2010)
  • Lecture Gayatri Spivak on Situating Feminism (2/26/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Defending Common Ground (3/2/2010)
  • Colloquium afp-ki-stn -- The Violent Birth of an Acronym (3/3/2010)
  • Lecture Virtual Pulpit -- Net Mosques, Congregations and Imams (3/8/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Islam, Social Lives and Online Networking (3/9/2010)
  • Colloquium afp-ki-stn -- The Violent Birth of an Acronym (3/10/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Working Toward a Clean Energy Future in India (3/10/2010 - 3/11/2010)
  • Lecture Modi in the Colonial Archive -- Towards a Cultural History of Scripts in South Asia? (3/11/2010)
  • Lecture Negotiations with the Taliban -- Convergences and Divergences in US, Indian and Pakistani approaches to Afghanistan (3/15/2010)
  • Exhibit Public Lives Private Spaces in Tehran (3/30/2010 - 4/10/2010)
  • Lecture Math marching to a different drummer (3/31/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Tradition as Innovation - South Asian Classical Music in the Next Decade (4/1/2010)
  • Lecture Surviving the Dragon -- A Tibetan Lamas Life Under Chinese Rule (4/7/2010)
  • Lecture The Bhakti Movement and the Shadow of the Raj (4/7/2010)
  • Lecture Naxalism, Violence and Development -- The Unholy Nexus (4/8/2010)
  • Photoexhibit The State of Adivasis in Chattisgarh India (4/8/2010 - 4/13/2010)
  • The Domestic Crusaders (4/10/2010 - 4/11/2010)
  • Book reading by author Shrabani Basu Love in the Time of Empire -- The Story of Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim (4/12/2010)
  • Film Screening Im Muslim Too, Episodes 1 and 2 (4/12/2010)
  • Film Screening Malaysian Gods (4/12/2010)
  • Film Screening Village People Radio Show (4/12/2010)
  • Film Screening Gubra (4/13/2010)
  • Film Screening Muallaf (4/13/2010)
  • Lecture Religious Extremism in Pakistan -- As a Threat to Pakistans Security (4/13/2010)
  • Colloquium afp-ki-stn -- The Violent Birth of an Acronym (4/14/2010)
  • Film Screening 3 Wishes 3 Loves 3 Doa 3 Cinta (4/14/2010)
  • Film Screening Love For Share (4/14/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Making Movies in Indonesia and Malaysia (4/14/2010)
  • Film Screening Afghan Star (4/15/2010)
  • Film Screening Postcards from Tora Bora (4/15/2010)
  • Lecture Afghan Women in the Age of Pictures (4/15/2010)
  • Film Screening Tehran Has No More Pomegranates (4/16/2010)
  • Film Screening Tehran Without Permission (4/16/2010)
  • Documentary No Country for Young Girls? -- A documentary on Indias preference for sons (4/19/2010)
  • Film Screening Eye of the Sun (4/20/2010)
  • Film Screening Masquerades (4/21/2010)
  • Film Screening Falafel (4/22/2010)
  • Lecture Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay -- Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India (4/22/2010)
  • Kalam - The 6th Annual Berkeley Tamil Conference (4/24/2010 - 4/25/2010)
  • Lecture Women Centre Stage - A conversation with Poile Sengupta on Indian theatre in English (4/30/2010)
  • Book Reading by Author Empires of the Indus - The Story of a River (5/3/2010)
  • Lecture Normal Dreams and Futures - The Articulation of Pyramid Schemes and Deaf Communities in Urban India (5/6/2010)
  • Performance The Dancing Shiva - Nataraja and the Cosmos (5/6/2010)
  • Performance Mission Suhani -- Bringing Back Indias Lost Opera (5/7/2010)
  • ORIAS Summer Teachers World History Institute Causes and Consequences of Imperialism (7/26/2010 - 7/30/2010)
  • An Afternoon of Tibetan Culture Performance of Tibetan Music by Techung Tashi Dhondup and Lecture on Tibetan Buddhist Art by Robert W. Clark (8/8/2010)
  • Documentary Breaking the Silence - Women in Afghanistan and Pakistan (8/11/2010)
  • Panel Discussion We Refuse to Be Enemies - On the peace process between India and Pakistan (8/14/2010)
  • Colloquium Violence, Gender, and The Construction of Communities in the Twentieth Century Indian Novel (9/8/2010)
  • Colloquium Violence, Gender, and The Construction of Communities in the Twentieth Century Indian Novel (9/8/2010)
  • Round Table Discussion Afghanistan - A Unit of Analysis (9/11/2010)
  • Round Table Discussion Afghanistan - A Unit of Analysis (9/11/2010)
  • Concert A Mohan Veena Concert by Grammy Awardee Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (9/12/2010)
  • Performance A Mohan Veena Concert by Grammy Awardee Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt with SPICMACAY at Berkeley (9/12/2010)
  • CSAS Annual Reception (9/16/2010)
  • Reception CSAS Annual Reception (9/16/2010)
  • Seminar Irrigation and Affordable Housing in India (9/17/2010)
  • Special Seminar Irrigation and Affordable Housing in India (9/17/2010)
  • Film Screening Bishar Blues and Thousand Days and a Dream Two Films with Tanushree Gangopadhyay (9/20/2010)
  • Two Films with Tanushree Gangopadhyay Bishar Blues and Thousand Days and a Dream (9/20/2010)
  • Lecture Indias Education System - A New Vision for the Future (9/22/2010)
  • Lecture Indias Education System - A New Vision for the Future (9/22/2010)
  • Lecture Empowering Rural Communities in a Changing India - Lessons from 25 years of rural development work (9/23/2010)
  • Lecture Empowering Rural Communities in a Changing India Lessons from 25 years of rural development work (9/23/2010)
  • Lecture The Pakistan Flood Crisis - An Alternate Perspective (9/29/2010)
  • Lecture The Pakistan Flood Crisis An Alternate Perspective (9/29/2010)
  • Lecture Missing Girls and Disappearing Daughters - Fighting Female Foeticide in Punjab (9/30/2010)
  • Lecture Missing Girls and Disappearing Daughters Fighting Female Foeticide in Punjab (9/30/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Human Rights Watch and their Critical Work. With Liesl Gerntholtz and Peter Bouckaert (10/7/2010)
  • Reception Human Rights Watch and their Critical Work With Liesl Gerntholtz and Peter Bouckaert (10/7/2010)
  • Lecture The Long View from Delhi - To Define the Indian Grand Strategy for Foreign Policy (10/11/2010)
  • Lecture The Long View from Delhi To Define the Indian Grand Strategy for Foreign Policy (10/11/2010)
  • Lecture Through the Patina - An Evening with Anjolie Ela Menon (10/11/2010)
  • Lecture Through the Patina An Evening with Anjolie Ela Menon (10/11/2010)
  • Lecture Interiors and Interiority in Nineteenth Century India (10/12/2010)
  • Lecture Interiors and Interiority in Nineteenth Century India (10/12/2010)
  • Book Reading The Difficulty of Being Good - On the Subtle Art of Dharma (10/19/2010)
  • Discussion The Difficulty of Being Good On the Subtle Art of Dharma (10/19/2010)
  • The Indian Ocean Seas in History (10/20/2010)
  • Lecture I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess -Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics (10/21/2010)
  • Performance An Evening of Music with Shubha Mudgal (10/21/2010)
  • Concert An Evening of Music with Shubha Mudgal (10/22/2010)
  • Lecture Liberalizations Children - Stories of Love, Hunger and Destiny in Young India (10/26/2010)
  • Lecture Liberalizations Children Stories of Love, Hunger and Destiny in Young India (10/26/2010)
  • Book Reading At Home with Madhur Jaffrey - Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka (10/27/2010)
  • Lecture At Home with Madhur Jaffrey Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka (10/27/2010)
  • Panel Discussion An Evening on Kashmir - Discussing Politics, Law, and Human Tragedy (11/1/2010)
  • Panel Discussion An Evening on Kashmir Discussing Politics, Law, and Human Tragedy (11/1/2010)
  • Film Festival 3rd is 8th Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival (11/3/2010 - 11/7/2010)
  • Film Festival 3rd is 8th Annual SF International South Asian Film Festival (11/3/2010 - 11/7/2010)
  • Performance Hijabi Monologues (11/5/2010)
  • Performance Hijabi Monologues (11/5/2010)
  • Panel Discussion An Evening on Kashmir Discussing Politics, Law, and Human Tragedy (11/9/2010)
  • Performance An Evening of Hindustani Classical Music with Shubhangi Sakhalkar (11/14/2010)
  • Performance An Evening of Hindustani Classical Music with Shubhangi Sakhalkar with SPICMACAY at Berkeley (11/14/2010)
  • Colloquium Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities (11/16/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities (11/16/2010)
  • Lecture Indias Global Role (11/17/2010)
  • Lecture Indias Global Role (11/17/2010)
  • The World History Study Group The River of Lost Footsteps A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U (11/17/2010)
  • Workshop Visas for India - An Update on the New Changes (11/17/2010)
  • Workshop Visas for India An Update on the New Changes (11/17/2010)
  • Lecture Classical Tamil Poetry - A Feminist Reading (12/2/2010)
  • Lecture Classical Tamil Poetry A Feminist Reading (12/2/2010)
  • Lecture Instructional Development Research Projects - Telugu (12/3/2010)
  • Symposium Instructional Development Research Projects (12/3/2010)
  • Symposium Ritual Place (12/3/2010)
  • Book Launch The Domestic Crusaders book launch with Wajahat Ali (12/9/2010)
  • Book Reading The Domestic Crusaders (12/9/2010)
  • Performance Maz Jobrani @UCB - Breaking Negative Stereotypes Through Comedy (12/10/2010)
  • Performance Maz Jobrani @UCB Breaking Negative Stereotypes Through Comedy (12/10/2010)
  • The World History Study Group Maritime SE Asia to 1500 by Lynda Shaffer (12/15/2010)
  • Lecture India Calling An Intimate Portrait of a Nations Remaking (1/19/2011)
  • Panel Discussion Cruel Cinema - New Directions in Tamil Cinema An informal talk and discussion with series curators Lalitha Gopalan and Anuj Vaidya (1/25/2011 - 2/19/2011)
  • Lecture Daughter Aversion, Dowry and Demographic Change (1/27/2011)
  • Lecture Statebuilding Beyond the State Lessons from Canadas Experience in Kandahar (2/3/2011)
  • Symposium Agyeya 1911-1987 in his Time and Ours Literary formations in mid-twentieth Century India (2/11/2011 - 2/13/2011)
  • Lecture A Matter of Honour Britain, the Behzti Affair, and the Question of Multiculturalism (2/18/2011)
  • Exhibit Btcht Around the Bay Collaborative Conversations about South Asian Art and Culture (3/3/2011)
  • Lecture/Screening Children Playing Gods The Ramlila Project (4/1/2011)
  • Concert North meet South Hindustani Classical and Carnatic Music (4/2/2011)
  • Panel Discussion Class, Gender and Dalit Politics A conversation between Gopal Guru and Anupama Rao (4/4/2011)
  • Lecture Connecting Continents, Crossing Cultures Of Black and Dalit Interfaces (4/7/2011)
  • Conference The Transregional - Circulation, Limits, and Transformation The 2011 South and Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference (4/8/2011)
  • Lecture Text and Context The Archaeology of Ancient India (4/10/2011)
  • Lecture The Inaugural Maharaj Kaul Memorial Lecture Pay-to-print How Media Corruption Undermines Indian Democracy (4/11/2011)
  • Lecture Rajputs and conversion to Islam, 1550-1750 (4/14/2011)
  • Lecture Public Sphere Formation and Asian Globalization Observations from India (4/21/2011)
  • Lecture Democracy in Nepal The Local and the National (4/27/2011)
  • Lecture Tradition and Poetics in Tamil Literary History Keynote Address of the 7th Annual Tamil Conference (4/29/2011)
  • Conference Tamil Marapu tradition Seventh Annual Tamil Conference (4/30/2011)
  • Lecture The Redefined Dimensions of Baloch Nationalist Movement A Presentation and Discussion on Balochistan with author, Malik Siraj Akbar (5/3/2011)
  • Lecture Bombay Islam Iran-India-South Africa in the Religious Economy of the Indian Ocean (5/4/2011)
  • Lecture The Sanskrit and Marathi Press of King Serfoji II of Tanjore Print, Translation, and Public Education at a Nineteenth-century Indian Court (5/9/2011)
  • Film Screening Tanvir Ka Safarnama Tanvirs Theatrical Travelogue Documentary on Habib Tanvir and his Naya Theatre by Ranjan Kamath (5/11/2011)
  • Workshop Absent Voices Experience of common life in world history K-12 Summer Institute (7/25/2011 - 7/29/2011)
  • Workshop Community College Teacher Workshop (7/27/2011 - 7/29/2011)

    •