Our Fall 2022 Quarter Events

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We want to share our upcoming Fall Quarter events with you. Please note that there are some new events and updated links that have been added since the announcement was published.

September

September 23 - 25 ** | In-person event | In SF Theaters
3rd i Film Festival
Co-sponsored by Center for South Asia at Stanford University
(Open to everyone. Purchase tickets on website.)
Learn more about the film festival here

Friday, September 30 | Virtual event | 12:00 - 2:00 PM Pacific
Swasthika Arulingam, Marisa De Silva, Farzana Haniffa, moderated by Anjali Arondekar and Sharika Thiranagama
Co-organized with Center for South Asian Studies at UCSC
(Open to everyone. Registration is required.)
The People Revolt: Sri Lanka

October

Thursday, October 6 ** | Virtual event | Online
3rd i Film Festival
Co-sponsored by Center for South Asia at Stanford University
(Open to everyone. Purchase tickets on website.)
Learn more about the film festival here

Thursday, October 6 | In-person event | 5:00 - 7:00 PM Pacific
Guneeta Singh Bhalla, Jisha Menon, C. Ryan Perkins
Co-organized with Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and Stanford University Libraries
(Open to everyone.)
Remembering Partition: 75 Years of Independence-Partition
Please note that the Partition exhibition in the Stanford Green Library is currently open.

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Tuesday, October 11 ** | In-person event | 5:30 - 7:00 PM Pacific
Akash Kapur, Larissa MacFarquhar
Hosted by Ethics in Society
(Open to everyone. Registration required.)
Living in Utopia

Wednesday, October 12 | In-person event | 6:30 PM Pacific
TM Krishna, moderated by Denise Gill
(Open to everyone. Registration is required.)
Music, its caste and gender

Friday, October 14 ** | Virtual event | 10:00 AM Pacific
Syed Ali Mehdi Zaidi, Shikha Nehra, Shubhangni Gupta
Hosted by South Asia Working Group at Stanford University (SAWG)
(Open to graduate students, postdocs, and early career scholars.)
Autumn Graduate Students' Forum Panel on South Asia as Home and Field
Learn more about SAWG here

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October 14 - 15 ** | Virtual conference | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Cornel West, Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Hosted by Equality Labs and the National Academic Coalition for Caste Equity (NACCE)
(Open to everyone. Registration is required.)
Caste in Higher Education conference

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Tuesday, October 25 | In-person event | 5:00 PM Pacific
Prasannan Parthasarathi, moderated by Partha Pratim Shil
(Open to everyone. Registration is required.)
The Temporalities of Nature and Agriculture in South India

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Thursday, October 27 | Virtual event | 10:00 AM Pacific
Dilip M Menon, Nishat Zaidi, Simi Malhotra, Saarah Jappie, moderated by Mudit Trivedi
Co-sponsored by Stanford Global Studies Division
Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime

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October 28 - 29 **
Asian American Art Initiative symposium
IMU UR2: Art, Aesthetics, and Asian America

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October 29 - 30 ** | In-person event | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM Pacific
Ayad Akhtar, Annu Matthew, Amit Majmudar, Madhushree Ghosh, Daisy Rockwell, Ranu Mukherjee, Swara Bhasker, Nik Sharma, Vikram Chandra, Jaishri Abichandani, TM Krishna, Shireen Ahmad, Sara Ahmad, Afzal Ahmad
(Open to everyone. Purchase tickets on website.)
South Asia Literature and Art Festival 2022
View the festival poster here

November

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Thursday, November 10 | Virtual event | 12:00 PM Pacific
Omar Kasmani, moderated by Anjali Arondekar and Anna Bigelow
(Open to everyone. Registration is required.)
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan

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Tuesday, November 15 ** | Virtual event | 9:00 AM Pacific
Ahilan Kadirgamar, Viruben Nandakumar
Organized through the South Asia-Markaz fellowship program
(Open to everyone. Registration required.)
Postwar Perspectives on the 2022 Sri Lankan Political Crisis

Tuesday, November 15 ** | Virtual event | 10:30 AM Pacific
Kaustubh Naik
Hosted by South Asia Working Group at Stanford University (SAWG)
(Open to graduate students, postdocs, and early career scholars.)
Autumn Practitioner Talk on Sustaining Creative Practice in Academia
Learn more about SAWG here

Wednesday, November 30 | Virtual event | 10:00 AM Pacific
Ayra Patras
(Open to everyone. Registration is required.)
Topic: Caste and Christianity in Pakistan

** Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia