Events

“Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and, ultimately, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean, South Asian, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s, […]

Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies, this talk examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and case studies from across the country, Professor Aiyadurai will discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people, the talk […]

Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in The New Yorker, NY Times, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Story Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in […]

Join us Friday, January 24th at 10am PST for Varieties of Realism, a lecture by Francesca Orsini with discussants: G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. Francesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London Rahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture, […]

Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who […]