Podcasts and Recordings of CSAS Events

Multimedia Resources

During the academic year the Center for South Asian Studies presents a variety of lectures.  Audio and/or video recordings will be posted to this site shortly after the events occur.  Please check back regularly for our latest talks.

CSAS lectures are also available as podcasts on University of Michigan iTunes U (click on International).

2009-10 CSAS Fall and Winter Lecture Series

Terminal Present:  Making Art from Either Side of the Margin in the 21st Century
            Kanishka Raja, Independent Visual Artist
            Presented:  11/13/09 (audio )  (video )

Television, Participatory Culture, and Politics:  The Case of Indian Idol
            Aswin Punathambekar, University of Michigan
            Presented:  11/6/09 (audio )  (video )

Lineages of Political Society
            Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
            Presented:  10/16/09 (audio )  (video )

2009 Summer in South Asia Undergraduate Symposium
            Presented:  10/2/2009

Rory Crook, Department of Kinesiology  (audio )  (video )
Project: Addressing the physiological difficulties of a sample of school children with polio and congenital birth defects by incorporating physical activities with simple exercise equipment.

 

Caleb Heyman, Department of History and English  (audio )  (video )

Project: Analysis of how two NGOs in Kolkata interact with the city-space, their structures and problems as they work to give relief to the city's homeless children.

 

Adam Khan, UM Medical School  (audio )  (video )

Project: Estimation of the costs and financial projections to determine the payback period for a new hospital in an underserved region.

 

Meha Pandey, School of Engineering  (audio )  (video )

Project: Assessment of the infrastructural needs of a rural hospital, in terms of patient safety, hygiene, and waste disposal.

 

Ye Wang, Department of Economics  (audio )  (video )

Project: A study on supermarket oriented supply chains in Bangalore and the impact on small farmers in terms of their welfare and livelihood.

 

Sairah Husain, Department of Economics  (audio )  (video )

Project: Effectiveness of targeting women in employment-generating schemes in urban infrastructure in the Kolkata metropolitan area

 

Adhiraj Vable, School of Engineering  (audio )  (video )

Project: Installation of a solar powered backup system to power a new computer lab at Jnana Bodhini School near Bangalore

 

Old City, New City: Locating the Past in Urban India
    An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
            See the conference program
            Keynote Address by Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
            Presented:  9/25/09 - 9/13/09 (audio )  (video )

Muslim Voices: Traditions and Contexts
    A Conference in Honor of Barbara Daly Metcalf
            Various Speakers--see the conference schedule
            Presented:  9/11/09 - 9/13/09 (audio coming soon)

2008-09 CSAS Fall and Winter Lecture Series

Cows, Cars and Cycle-Rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India
            Amita Baviskar, Delhi University
            Presented:  3/27/09 (audio)

Free to Wander: Some Questions, Predicaments, and Possibilities about Family Histories and Domestic Archives
            Sanjay Joshi, Northern Arizona University
            Presented:  3/20/09 (audio)

Infrastructure
            Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara
            Presented:  3/13/09 (audio)

Caste, Gender and the Body Politic:  Bengaluru's Experiments with Democracy
            Janaki Nair, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
            Presented:  2/16/09  (audio)

State, Space and Citizenship:  Indian Cities in the Global Era
            Keynote Panel:
                    Solomon Benjamin, University of Toronto
                    Paromita Vohra, Independent Filmmaker, Mumbai
                    Ravi Sundaram, CSDS, Delhi
            Presented 12/23/2009 (audio)

Calcutta Coefficients: Styles of State-Building, Styles of Computations
            Arindam Dutta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
            Presented 11/7/2008 (audio)

Nature, Nationalism, and Public Intellectualism in India
            K. (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
            Presented 10/31/2008 (audio)

The Unwieldy Fetish: Desire and Disavowal of Indianness in South Africa
            Thomas Blom Hansen, University of Amsterdam
            Presented 10/24/2008 (audio)

CSAS 2008 Summer in South Asia Undergraduate Symposium
            Undergraduate Presenters:
                    Sasha Preston-Suni
                    Mounica Vallurupalli
                    Lainie Kokas
                    Hyunmin Han
                    Jane Xio
                    Ginger Cline
                    Presented 10/3/2008 (audio)

Contemporary Indian Art and the War in Iraq: On Vivan Sundaram’s Engine Oil Work
            Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles
            Presented 9/26/2008 (audio)

Religious Conflict and Syncretistic Culture in Peero's "160 Kafis"
            Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi
            Presented 9/12/2008 (audio)