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Fri, 29 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023:Kabir Poems in Transformation: Roundtable & Book Launch

Join us for the book launch of ‘Kabir Poems in Transformation: A fountain of Creativity’ by Peter Friedlander (Primus Books, Delhi: 2023)!
Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Landscape Photography Workshop

We are lucky to have six landscape photographers visiting ANU from Mongolia as part of the Immersia Festival.
Tue, 26 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative - Pre-Launch

Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and practice. Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narra
Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Immersia 2023: Art Practice in Language Learning and Teaching

How does art practice contribute to language learning and teaching?
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**

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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.