Kolloquium

The 1950s: Journeys into Postcolonial South Asia

The Department of History at the South Asia Institute presents "The 1950s: Journeys into Postcolonial South Asia", a colloquium to present recent research into the postcolonial moment. The series will be held fortnightly from April 29th until July 22nd 2022 at 14:15 (CEST). The presentations will be delivered online on Zoom.

Registration:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkfuCupzgoGNbB03mRfoGmW29EbU92qZMc

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Our program:

• 29.04.2022 | Nehru's Voice: Resistance, Renaissance & the Rebirth of Nations in 100 Volumes
  Swapna Kona Nayudu - Harvard University


• 13.05.2022 | Nehru's India? Rethinking the First Prime Minister and the Administrative Machine in Independent India, 1947-1964
  Taylor Sherman - London School of Economics


• 27.05.2022 | The Indian First Elections, 1951-52. Women in a Republic of Minorities - (Hybrid)
  Ornit Shani - University of Haifa


• 17.06.2022 | Writing Ambedkar: The biography of Bhiva, Bhima, Bhimrao - (In presence)
  Suraj Yengde - Harvard University


• 24.06.2022 | A 1950s Women’s Question? Family Planning and Transnational Development Regimes
  Mytheli Sreenivas - Ohio State University


• 08.07.2022 | Jayaprakash Narayan, the CIA, and the Future of Cultural Freedom
  Vikrant Dadawala - Harvard University