Events
SAP hosts a weekly seminar series. For the Spring 2026 semester, we are hosting in-person events, typically at 12:15 pm Mondays in G08 Uris Hall. All events are open to the public. All times Eastern (New York) Time.
Videos of many past events are available on our YouTube playlist.
Our annual Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature features an author from South Asia or its diasporas. We also partner with Cornell student organizations to bring South Asian musicians, dancers, and other artists for campus performances.
Upcoming Events
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about Global Internships, funding opportunities, study abroad, language study and the Language Resource Center, international minors, and more.
The International Fair is…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Robert Travers
In around 1818 in Allahabad, an ageing munshi, Sadasukh ‘Niyazi’ Dihlawi, formerly in the employ of the British East India Company, wrote an unusual and salacious Persian history of the age of Mughal decline and British expansionism. This talk reads Munshi Sadasukh’s little-known text…
12:00 pm
Clark Hall, 700
Global politics are undergoing a radical rupture. The post-WWII rules-based international order, which prohibits most uses of military force, provides collective security, and respects human rights, has always been imperfect. But today several prominent governments appear to be explicitly repudiating these norms.…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Uzma Zafar (Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Rochester)
This talk explores nationalist temporalities of gender in Muslim transmasculine religiosity. Granted citizenship by the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, transgender people have become an affective…
4:30 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
The Village is a Scandal: Sexual Politics and the Making of the Rural in Modern India This talk offers a critical analysis of one of anthropology’s iconic conceptual categories: the village. Drawing on ethnographic work in the Indian Himalaya, this talk explores how scandals or kaand emanating from ungovernable…
3:00 pm
120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, B21
Parijat is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology, with graduate minors in Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He is a cultural and environmental anthropologist whose research examines agrarian and ecological transformation in the Western Himalayas. His…
5:00 pm
A. D. White House
Talk by Vidyan Ravindran (English, Harvard)
What overlap is there between political, psychological and philosophical ideas of identity, and what role might poetry play in helping their convergence? Discussing his fusion of life-writing and verse criticism, Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Sharif Hozoori (Visiting Lecturer, Government)
Legitimacy is essential for all political regimes, whether democratic or authoritarian. This has been true for various authoritarian regimes throughout Afghanistan’s modern history and for the current Taliban regime as well. In this study, I focus on…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Nikhit Agrawal
Since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was adopted, agriculture has gained prominence in global climate negotiations, both as a source of greenhouse gas emissions and as a potential contributor to reducing them through carbon storage and sequestration. In the past decade, hundreds of…
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
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12:00 pm
Virtual
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12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Meghna Chaudhuri (History, Davidson College)
In this talk, I will present research that clues us into reframing the agrarian in colonial, and early post-colonial South Asia - as not merely a space where material production of grain and food occurs but as a key site of experiments with finance capital…
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
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4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.
Applications are open now.
Can’t attend? Contact…