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Mon, 18 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Stretch, Cut, and Create: Upcycling the Yoga Pant

What do yoga pants, the most comfortable pants many of us will ever wear, reveal about the South Asian practice of yoga? 
Fri, 15 Sep 2023

Pandemic-induced wage theft claims and worker responses from Sri Lanka’s apparel industry

This seminar will be held in hybrid mode, i.e. in-person on the ANU Campus, and virtually on zoom.
Fri, 25 Aug 2023

India's competitive authoritarian turn

ANU South Asia Research Institute

India's competitive authoritarian turn
Fri, 11 Aug 2023

The Maldives Elections and the Role of Maldives in Regional Security

**ONLINE SEMINAR - This seminar will be presented online only, not in-person**
Tue, 1 Aug 2023

Shifting the Field: the Story of Australia’s Negotiation of India’s Rise to Power in Cricket

Thu, 2 Feb 2023

Defying ethno-nationalism: Multilingualism and creativity in Asia

Venue Change: Al Falasi Lecture Theatre, ANU Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies (CAIS), 127 Ellery Cr, Acton

Fri, 7 Oct 2022

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

Watch the seminar video via Vimeo. 

Fri, 2 Sep 2022

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

Watch the video recording of this online seminar on Vimeo.

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The Contortionist Turn: Ancient Guilds, Outcast Street Performers, and the Acro-Wrestling Roots of Haṭhayoga
From whom/where did the royal wrestlers get the idea to climb poles?

Poetic Supermen & Villains: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Masculine Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern North India & Nepal
This presentation will explore how memory, music, and masculinity were packaged and transmitted across time and spaces in a uniquely Maithili manner.

Right Hand, Left Hand: The Flexible Politics of Yoga
This talk explores the imaginative life of yoga, a privileged symbol of India in today’s world, in twenty-first-century stories.

The Art and Life of Gulammohammed Sheikh
Artist, poet, teacher and art historian Gulammohammed Sheikh (1937-) has played a germinal role in the development of contemporary art in India since the early 1960s.