Events

Past Events

Anti-Caste Praxis and the question nomadic-indigenous communities

Anti-Caste Praxis and the question nomadic-indigenous communities

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Friday, August 28, 2026
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Event Type: Discussion
Caste and Language

Caste and Language

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Thursday, May 7, 2026
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Wounds of Pyre: Inside the Minds of Cremation Workers

Wounds of Pyre: Inside the Minds of Cremation Workers

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Milledoler Hall 100
Anti-Caste Awareness Month Events

Anti-Caste Awareness Month Events

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Sunday, April 12, 2026
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Graduate Student Lounge 126 College Avenue
Till Death Do Us Part: Remaking Rajput Military Tradition and Martyrology in the Mughal Empire

Till Death Do Us Part: Remaking Rajput Military Tradition and Martyrology in the Mughal Empire

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Monday, April 6, 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Room 4052, Academic Building West (CAC)
Weird Inheritances: Tarfia Faizullah and Shamsur Rehman’s Intertextual Translations

Weird Inheritances: Tarfia Faizullah and Shamsur Rehman’s Intertextual Translations

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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:03 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library Teleconference Room (4th Floor), CAC
A Conversation on "Caste and Mental Health"

A Conversation on "Caste and Mental Health"

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Friday, March 20, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
AB 6051, 15 Seminary Place
The Little Magazine: Reclaiming a Space for the Literatures and Cultures of South Asia

The Little Magazine: Reclaiming a Space for the Literatures and Cultures of South Asia

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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
AB 6051, 15 Seminary Place
Global Asias Workshop-Seminar (SPRING 2026): Thinking Like a Hindutva: Youth, Modernity, and the Making of the Hindu Modern

Global Asias Workshop-Seminar (SPRING 2026): Thinking Like a Hindutva: Youth, Modernity, and the Making of the Hindu Modern

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Event Type: Lecture
Zoom
Marriage, Migration, and the U.S. Military in the Pacific by Sonia C. Gomez

Marriage, Migration, and the U.S. Military in the Pacific by Sonia C. Gomez

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Monday, February 23, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Alexander Library Teleconference/Lecture Hall
Caste and Food

Caste and Food

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Friday, February 20, 2026
6:00 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Civic Square Building, Room 110
The Case of the Vanishing Maharaja by Daniel Majchrowicz

The Case of the Vanishing Maharaja by Daniel Majchrowicz

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Monday, February 16, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
AB 2400
Global Asias Workshop-Seminar (SPRING 2026): "Plastic Possessions: Selective Incorporation and the Value of Asian Women in the Nineteenth Century"

Global Asias Workshop-Seminar (SPRING 2026): "Plastic Possessions: Selective Incorporation and the Value of Asian Women in the Nineteenth Century"

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Event Type: Lecture
Zoom

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and The Anti-Caste Thought

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Friday, February 6, 2026
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Event Type: Discussion
Online

Global Asias Workshop-Seminar (SPRING 2026): A Hong Kong Legend: Haji Mohamed Hasan Nemazee and the Rebirth of "the Death Traffic" in Britain's Asian Empire, 1893-1921

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Event Type: Lecture
Zoom
Organizing through the Grassroots

Organizing through the Grassroots

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Thursday, December 18, 2025
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Event Type: Discussion
CARA A CARA SYMPOSIUM: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Migrants

CARA A CARA SYMPOSIUM: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Migrants

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Thursday, December 11, 2025
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Event Type: Colloquium
Paul Robeson Campus Center Essex Room 232/233 (Multipurpose Room) 350 Martin Luther King Jr BLVD, Newark, NJ 07102

Sponsors: The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, The Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America (CPRA), RU-N Cultural Programming, Global Asia.

Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War

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Monday, December 8, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Event Type: Lecture
Academic Building West 6051
"The Language Challenge" Roundtable

"The Language Challenge" Roundtable

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Friday, December 5, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Humanities Seminar Room 6051, Academic Building (CAC)

Please join us for “The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” a roundtable discussion on the role of language and modernism featuring Christopher Bush (Northwestern), Jennifer Dubrow (University of Washington), Toral Gajarawala (NYU), Rudrani Gangopadhyay (Rutgers), Gregory Goulding (U Penn), Preetha Mani (Rutgers), and Anjali Nerlekar (Rutgers).

Against the Crematorium: Materializing Hindu Space in Twentieth Century Calcutta

Against the Crematorium: Materializing Hindu Space in Twentieth Century Calcutta

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Lecture
AB 6051, 15 Seminary Place