Events


Previous events

02
Feb
Map of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Defying ethno-nationalism: Multilingualism and creativity in Asia

2 February 2023, 4.00pm–6.00pm
Al Falasi Lecture Theatre, ANU Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies (CAIS), 127 Ellery Cr, Acton

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07
Oct
2022
Dr Patrick McCartney

The Contortionist Turn: Ancient Guilds, Outcast Street Performers, and the Acro-Wrestling Roots of Haṭhayoga

7 October 2022, 3.00pm–4.30pm
Online

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Dr Patrick McCartney

02
Sep
2022

Poetic Supermen & Villains: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Masculine Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern North India & Nepal

2 September 2022, 3.00pm–4.30pm
Online event

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05
Aug
2022
woman in yoga pose

Right hand, Left hand: The flexible politics of yoga

5 August 2022, 3.00pm–4.30pm
On zoom

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08
Jul
2022

The Art and Life of Gulammohammed Sheikh

8 July 2022, 3,00PM–4:30PM
Online

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03
Jun
2022

The Patchwork Fabric of the Kabir Tradition

3 June 2022, 3:00PM–4:00PM
Online

Image: Kabir and Raidas

06
May
2022
Artistic image of Visnu Purana

The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Content, Context and Translation of a Sanskrit Classic

6 May 2022, 3.00pm–4.30pm
Online

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Visnu Purana
Artistic image of Visnu Purana

18
Mar
2022

Annual General Meeting of the ANU South Asia Research Institute

18 March 2022, 2.30pm–3.30pm
Virtual (online)

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29
Oct
2019

In conversation with William Dalrymple

29 October 2019, 6.00 pm–7.00 pm
Cinema Theatre, Kambri Cultural Centre

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03
Sep
2019

The Servants are not Subservient: Secondary Characters in Rūparāma’s Dharmamaṅgala

3 September 2019, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Building, Building 130

25
Jul
2019

“What Makes Darjeeling Tea Authentic?” Gendered Placemaking, Colonial Heritage and Contemporary Sustainability Practice in Darjeeling, India

25 July 2019, 12:30pm–2:30pm
Basham Room, Level 1, Baldessin Precinct Building, 110 Ellery Cres Canberra

11
Jul
2019

Progress and Change in India

11 July — 12 July 2019, 9.00am–4.30pm
Fred Gruen Seminar Room, HW Arndt Building 25A ANU

16
Apr
2019

Call for papers – South Asia: past, present and future – your research

16 April 2019, 9am–5pm
La Trobe Asia, Bundoora Campus, Melbourne

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Musical instrument store

08
Apr
2019

Transformational leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and its relevance in the contemporary world

8 April 2019, 2pm–3pm
Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 2, Building 130, ANU

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28
Mar
2019

Inspiration and anachronism: the Mahatma and the march of history

28 March 2019, 5.30pm–7.30pm
Weston Theatre, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU

Image: Members of the Indian National Congress (foreground left to right) Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897 - 1945) and Vallabhai Patel (1875-1950) during the 51st Indian National Congress. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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15
Nov
2018

India Update 2018 – Voices of difference: minority positions in a majoritarian world

15 November — 16 November 2018, 9am–5pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Building 130, ANU

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16
Nov
2018

Chai and chats: an undergraduate conversation

16 November 2018, 10am–11am
Hedley Bull 3, Hedley Bull Building 130, ANU

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15
Nov
2018

SARI Annual Public Lecture 2018 – Professor G.N. Devy – Memory, language and aphasia: the future of human speech

15 November 2018, 9.30am–11am
Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull Building 130, ANU

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24
Oct
2018

A registrar resigns: a micro-history of an institution in Calcutta, 1948

24 October 2018, 1pm–2.30pm
Room 3.27, SDSC Reading Room, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130, ANU

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22
Sep
2018

Samyama Lab discussion: reflections on the practice life

22 September 2018, 3–4.30pm
Yoga Mandir, 42 Mort St, Braddon ACT 2612

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28
Aug
2018

Film screening: ‘Karam in Jaipur’ by David MacDougall

28 August 2018, 12pm–1pm
The Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, Acton, Canberra

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21
Aug
2018

Film screening: ‘Arnav at Six’ and ‘Shikahar Singh’ by David MacDougall

21 August 2018, 12pm–1pm
The Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, Acton, Canberra

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14
Aug
2018

Adda seminar – Intimate colonisation: Christianisation and law creation in British India

14 August 2018, 12pm–1pm
RegNet Meeting Room, Level 3, Coombs Extension, Building 8, ANU

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04
Aug
2018

Yoga, ethics and the care of the body: an experiential workshop

4 August 2018, 9am–12.30pm
Coombs Extension 1.04 , Building 8, Fellows Road, ANU

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02
Aug
2018

Heal the self, not the system: sexual violence in the global yoga industry

2 August 2018, 5.30pm–7pm
Sir Roland Wilson Building Lecture Theatre 2.02, 120 McCoy Circuit, Acton, Canberra

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01
Aug
2018
Andrea R. Jain

Masterclass: capitalism and religion with Andrea R Jain

1 August 2018, 12.30pm–2.30pm
Coombs Extension Regional Institutes Boardroom, Building 8, ANU

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31
Jul
2018
200 hours TTC Goa India by The Yoga People

Adda seminar – Yoga and Indian soft power: the shadowlands of global yoga, unlikely alliances, strategic syncretism and de-post-colonizing yogatopia(s)

31 July 2018, 11am–12pm
RegNet Meeting Room, Level 3, Coombs Extension, Building 8, ANU

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21
Jun
2018

International Day of Yoga: panel discussion

21 June 2018, 5.15pm–7.15pm
Law Link Theatre, 7 Fellows Road, Acton ACT 2601

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24
May
2018

Seminar – The songs of belonging: genealogy, community, livelihood and resistance

24 May 2018, 4.30pm–6pm
Basham Room, Baldessin Precinct Building (110), Ellery Crescent, ANU

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23
May
2018

Public lecture – Dangers to democracy in India?

23 May 2018, 4pm–5.45pm
Weston Theatre, JG Crawford Building (132), Lennox Crossing, ANU

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22
May
2018

Adda Seminar – Hirashasan: Ruling diamonds in the realm of Gonds

22 May 2018, 12pm–1pm
SDSC Reading Room, Room 3.27, Hedley Bull, Building 130, ANU

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26
Apr
2018

Why the triple talaq must stop: interrogating a slice of contemporary history in India

26 April 2018, 4pm–5.30pm
Barton Theatre, JG Crawford Building 132, ANU

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17
Apr
2018

Adda Seminar – Sacred sites and stories

17 April 2018, 12pm–1pm
Institutes Boardroom, 1.12 H C Coombs Extension, ANU

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27
Mar
2018

Adda Seminar – The Visnupurana: an ancient Indian history of everything and guide to life

27 March 2018, 12pm–1pm
Institutes Boardroom, 1.12 H C Coombs Extension, ANU

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23
Mar
2018

PhD Pre-Submission Seminar – Blasphemy in Pakistan: a spectacle of Piety

23 March 2018, 3pm–4pm
Milgate Room, A.D. Hope Building, ANU

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28
Feb
2018

Seminar – Why is the lotus the primordial symbol of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth in India?

28 February 2018, 9.30am
1.13 Coombs Extension, ANU

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09
Feb
2018

Adda Seminar – Time for the fruit to fall? Deathbed narratives in modern Indian literature and morality and the labour of care

9 February 2018, 12pm–1pm
Institutes Boardroom, 1.12 Coombs Extension, 9 Fellows Road, ANU

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15
Dec
2017
05
Apr
2016

Cinematic India

5 April 2016, 4.15–5.30
HRC Conference Rm 128, A.D. Hope Bldg 14, ANU

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05
Nov
2015

Conference: Between the plough and the pick: informal mining in the contemporary world

5 November — 6 November 2015, 9.00 am–5.00 pm
Lecture Theatre 1 (APCD Theatre), Ground floor, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130, Cnr Garran Rd and Liversidge St, ANU

11
Sep
2015
04
Sep
2015

SARI Lecture: Indian Jewish communities

4 September 2015, 11.00am–12:30pm
Hedley Bull Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130)

12
Aug
2015
Sari Symposium

Symposium: The great transformation in South Asia: feminisation of agriculture and food security

12 August 2015, 8.30am–5pm
Coombs Extension Room 1.04, Building 8, Fellows Road, ANU

05
Aug
2015

SARI Public Lecture – Dipesh Chakrabarty – Religious Cosmopolitanism: Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) and the Hindu World, 1898-1911

5 August 2015, 5.30 pm–7.00 pm
Sir Ronald Wilson Building Theatrette (Room 2.02) and the 3rd floor foyer area

31
Jul
2015
Anthony Low

Soundings and echoes: a seminar on the study of South Asia in honour of Anthony Low

31 July 2015, 1.15–6pm
Sir Roland Wilson Theatrette, Building #120

17
Jul
2015
Hindi in Australia workshop

Hindi in Australia workshop

17 July 2015, 9.3am–5pm
McDonald Room ,R.G. Menzies Library, Building #2, ANU

17
Mar
2015
Ashis Nandy

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