Conferences and Workshops

CSA hosts conferences and workshops focused on South Asia-related topics and themes. These events are geared toward students and faculty but may be open to the public.

Mural on a street in Karachi depicting Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch who was killed in 2016.

Photo credit: @FurSid (January 3, 2018)

The Erotic: 2021 Graduate Student Workshop

The erotic is powerful, provocative, and performative. The 2021 CSA Graduate Student Workshop explores the genealogies of the erotic as they traverse the entangled terrains of precolonial, imperialist, nationalist, postcolonial, and neoliberal thought.

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Photo Credit: Akshat Vats (Chamundeshwari Temple)

Age of Vedanta: 2019 Conference

Image credit: “The World in the Time of Cabot”(Decorative map by MacDonald Gill from The Pageant of Empire. Souvenir Volume: An Anthology of British Empireby E. V. Lucas. London: Fleetway Press, 1924. British Empire Exhibition, 1924, 1925 (Wembley); Retrived from Cornell Library's digital collection on Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection.)