CeMIS Colloquium - Summer Semester 2016

Wednesdays, 4.15pm - 5.45pm, CeMIS Board Room 2.112, Second floor, Waldweg 26, Göttingen 37073

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Wed 20 April
LAURENT GAYER
Sciences Po, Paris
The Labors of Coexistence: Engaging with Diversity in Amroha (India)

Wed 27 April
DAG ERIK BERG
CeMIS, Göttingen
Mechanisms of Oppression: Dalits and Legal Developments in India

Wed 4 May
CAROLINE OSELLA
SOAS, London
"Muslim Style" in South India: Glamour, Modesty and Fashion in the Universe

Wed 11 May
BURKHARD SCHNEPEL
University of Halle/MPI for Social Anthropology
From Port of Call to Cyber Island: Mauritius and Its Role in Connectivity Across the Indian Ocean

Wed 18 May
FRANK PERLIN
Historian
Cultural Differentiation in an Always Transitional and Globalising World: The 15th to the 19th Centuries

Wed 25 May
PIERRE-YVES TROUILLET
CNRS/CEIAS Paris
The Migrant Priests of the Overseas Tamil Hindu Temples: Profiles, Circulations, Issues

Wed 1 June
ANDREW SANCHEZ
University of Kent
Profane Relations: The Irony of Offensive Jokes in India

Wed 8 June
BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE
University of Oxford
Social Relations of Waste

Wed 15 June
STEPHEN LEGG
University of Nottingham
Spaces of Anti-Colonialism: Communal Violence and Nationalist Geographies in Interwar Delhi

Wed 22 June
AMMARA MAQSOOD
University of Oxford
Who Are the Taliban? Truth, Deflection and Uncertainty Amongst Tribal Pashtuns in Pakistan

Wed 29 June
NAYANIKA MATHUR
University of Cambridge
Eating Money: A Questioning of the Villainy of Corruption in the Leaky Indian State

Wed 6 July
SAIKAT MAITRA
CeMIS, Göttingen
The Magical World of Tutai Das: From Affective Labor to Affective Intimacy in Kolkata