Prof. Allison Busch (MESAAS) was awarded the Vishwa Hindi Samman by the Government of India and the World Hindi Conference on Sept. 28, 2018.
Thursday, October 25: A Symposium on “The Progressive Genealogy: Art and Culture in Modern India,” a collaboration between the Asia Society and the South Asia Institute
Monday, November 12: A talk by Sujatha Gidla. Author of “Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India”
Congratulations to B. R. Ambedkar Research Scholar Menaka Guruswamy (left), Kumar Vardhman (petitioner), and Columbia Law School alumnae Arundhati Katju (right) on an historic victory for LGBT Rights in the Indian Supreme Court.
Thursday-Friday, October 18-19: Inaugural B. R. Ambedkar Lectures
Thursday, November 8: Priya Jaikumar (USC) on “Background Bodies"
Monday, October 29: Manu Goswami (NYU) on “‘The Communism of Intelligence': Early Communism in late Imperial India"
Thursday, October 25: A Symposium on “The Progressive Genealogy: Art and Culture in Modern India,” a collaboration between the Asia Society and the South Asia Institute
Gauri Viswanathan (SAI director and Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities) was honored with the 2017-2018 Mark van Doren Award for Teaching on May 2, 2018 at Low Library.
Monday, November 26
A talk by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Mailman School of Public Health)
"Containing Toxicity, Creating Citizens:
The Boundaries of Bodies, Health and Public Life in India (1920-70)"
 
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Monday, November 5:  University holiday, no classes.

Tuesday, November 6:  Election Day, University closed.

Monday-Tuesday, November 19-20:  Registration for Spring 2019 term.

Wednesday-Friday, November 21-23:  Thanksgiving recess, University closed.

Monday-Friday, December 3-7:  Registration for Spring 2019 term.

Monday, December 10:  Last day classes, Fall 2018.

South Asia MA Program Calendar 2018-19

Registrar Office - Academic Calendar