2025 Annual Solanki Lecture: Indian History After Climate Change: Conch-Shells in Myth and Life with Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Conch-Shell occupies a special place in Hindu and Buddhist religious systems, from creation myths to everyday religious rituals. Global warming, however, has significantly affected the supply of these shells. This talk addresses the question of how one might bring together into the same analytic frame the biological-evolutionary history and the human-religious history of this creature of the sea.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies and a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies. His books include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2000/2008), The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth (Chicago, 2015), The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Chicago, 2021), and One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (Brandeis, 2023). Dr. Chakrabarty has received honorary doctorates from the University of London (2010), the University of Antwerp (2011) and the École Normale Supérieure (2021). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
The Solanki Lecture will be held in person in the College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPaCE) building
Friday, April 25th, 2025
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A Conversation with Ranjan Ghosh
A Conversation with Allan Punzalan Isaac
The Yadunandan Center for India Studies presents:
Allan Punzalan Isaac with “Atopic Futures: Philippine-based Artists’ Use of the Otherworldly to Frame Social Justices Issues”
Dr. Issac’s talk will be the first of our new series that explores how we might reconceptualize the study of Asia and its diasporas. In this talk, he will focus on Philippine artists’s use of the Otherworldly to articulate environmental crises and social justice issues. Dr. Isaac uses these works of art to explore how we might reimagine research about Asia in a global era.
Dr. Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and of English and Associate Dean of the Humanities at Rutgers University. He is a founding member and served as co-Director of the Global Asias Initiative at Rutgers.
This event will be hosted at the Karl Anatol Center, CSULB
Thursday, February 13th, 2025 at 5:30pm
A Conversation about Italian Neo-Realism and Satyajit Ray
A Conversation with Aamina Ahmad
The Yadunandan Center for India Studies at Cal State Long Beach is proud to present:A Conversation with Aamina AhmadAamina Ahmad’s first novel, The Return of Faraz Ali, was named a notable New York Times and National Public Radio pick for 2023 and went on to win the Art Siedenbaum Los Angeles Times First Book Prize, The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain First Book Prize, and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize.Aamina Ahmad is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she has been a recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award. She is also the author of a play, The Dishonored. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota.The event will take place on Zoom on March 21st at 6:00PM
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Fighting Freedom Inc.: Imagining Individual Freedom Beyond Global Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture
Join us October 30th at 5:30 PM In the Antatol Center! Where Dr. Mangharam will draw on her newest work, which explores the ways in which lineages of liberation remain present in a wide range of texts in South Asia including the Dalit memoir, film, and the realist novel, works that offer fuller notions of autonomy and agency than those that appear in conventional imaginaries of freedom
2023 Annual Solanki Lecture: In the Realm of Untamed Waters – Thoughts on the Deep Ecology of the Ganges Delta
Please see attached flyer for the Annual Solanki Lecture with Sudipta Sen on April 17.
Reception/Dinner will start at 6pm and lecture at 7pm.
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Reading Women, Translating Cultures—a discussion on Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand
The Yadunandan Center for India Studies is proud to present a talk by
Pravina Cooper and Jason Grunebaum :
“Reading Women, Translating Cultures—a discussion on Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand”
Jason Grunebaum teaches Hindi and literary translation at the University of Chicago. translations from Hindi include Uday Prakash’s The Girl with the Golden Parasol, The Walls of Delhi, and, with Ulrike Stark, Manzoor Ahtesham’s The Tale of the Missing Man. He also helped establish the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation, the first prize for literature in translation from South Asia.15).
The conversation will take place on Zoom on February 16th at 6:00 PM.
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“At the Limits of Cure” A Lecture by Bharat Venkat
The Yadunandan Center for India Studies is proud to present a talk by Bharat Venkat from UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics and Department of History titled:
“At the Limits of Cure”
In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Dr. Venkat’s presentation will examine what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone.
The conversation will take place at the Anatol Center on September 20th at 5:30PM.
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Lecture by RUKMINI S. 10/07/21 “Deaths, Data and Democracy: India’s Pandemic Reckoning”
Rukmini S. is a data journalist. She served as the first Data Editor for The Hindu and later as the Data & Innovation Editor for the Huffington Post India. She has written for The Times of India, India Today, The Guardian, and the South China Morning Post. Since March, she has also hosted a podcast about the pandemic called “The Moving Curve.”