How does an understanding of the changes and challenges facing India in 2020 inform and inflect conversations internationally?
The 2021 India Update explored questions of belonging and mobility in a year marked by debates over redefinitions of citizenship and belonging, global health crises, and new forms of mobility and immobility that are reshaping India and its region.
Hosted by The Australian National University (ANU) South Asia Research Institute, the 2021 India Update was delivered through a series of videos released weekly from 15 February and bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to shed light on how these sites of crisis intersect with broader political, social, and cultural dynamics.
To receive a recording of any of the below videos, please email sari@anu.edu.au
15 February 2021
India Update 2021: Mobility and Belonging
Welcome to the Update
Acknowledgement of Country
Meera Ashar and Shameem Black
Belonging and Mobility in India: An Overview
Convener and Moderator: Aditya Balasubramanian
Participants: Aditya Balasubramanian (ANU), Azad Singh Bali (ANU), Stephanie Majcher (ANU)
Politics at Home and Abroad
Convener: Andy Kennedy
Speakers: Anuradha Sajjanhar (ANU), Farrah Ahmed (University of Melbourne), Manjeet Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellington), Rohan Mukherjee (Yale-NUS)
22 February 2021
Health, Wellbeing, and Identity
Convener: Shameem Black
Speakers: Assa Doron (ANU), Azad Singh Bali (ANU), Ira Raja (University of Delhi), Shameem Black (ANU)
1 March 2021
Voices from the Margins
Convener: Peter Friedlander
Speakers: McComas Taylor (ANU), Peter Friedlander (ANU), Stephanie Majcher (ANU), Chris Diamond (ANU)
8 March 2021
We the People? Historical Perspectives on Belonging, Mobility and Public Participation
Conveners: Meera Ashar and Aditya Balasubramanian
Speakers: Aditya Balasubramanian (ANU), Meera Ashar (ANU), Muhammad Kavesh (ANU)
17 March 2021
Making ‘New India’: Resistance to Majoritarian Politics and the Afterlives of Protests
Convener: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Speakers: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ANU), Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney), Rohan D’ Souza (Kyoto University), Arnab Roy Chowdhury (Higher School of Economics), Sita Venkateswar (Massey University)
17 March 2021
Film Screening
Spirit (2019), dir. Jane Dyson and Ross Harrison (19 minutes)
Speakers: Jane Dyson (University of Melbourne), director’s introduction followed by film screening