SASSpod

Lalita du Perron welcomes Emera Bridger Wilson, Associate Director at the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, at Syracuse University. They discuss the South Asia National Outreach Consortium and the South Asia Book Award, known as SABA. For more information on SABA as well as upcoming talks on November 19 and December 5th, please visit southasiabookaward.wisc.edu.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Munia Bhaumik, 2020-21 Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, about literature, translation, citizenship, aesthetics, politics, and Moby Dick.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford King Center on Global Development Postdoctoral Fellow Nirvikar Jassal about policing in India through the lens of gender – do women-only police stations lead to better access to justice for women?

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This episode Lalita du Perron talks to Arzan Tarapore, South Asia research scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, about his career in government, security in India-China, and the role of Higher Ed in international relations.

Music credit: Soham Shiva

Visit Arzan’s website at arzantarapore.com.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Padma Maitland, Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University about the politics of museums, regionality, and the upcoming After Hope exhibition at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

In the month the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing, Lalita du Perron talks to Center for International Security and Cooperation pre-doctoral fellow Debak Das about his research on regional nuclear powers, national vs human security, the politics of nuclear proliferation, and the role of luck in keeping the world safe.

Lalita du Perron is joined by Snehal Naik, Senior Director of the Office of Student Engagement, to talk about what it means to be South Asian, why Stanford is special, and how we can build community even in these challenging times.

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Associate Director for the Center for South Asia at Stanford University, Lalita du Perron sits down with Stephen Young, Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar at the Basic Income Lab at Stanford University and today he will discuss his research in South Asia.

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Raghav Mehrotra speaks about the impact of the lockdown on labour migration, Aajeevika Bureau's work, the heterogeneity of migration, and supply chains for products we are likely currently using.

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In this week’s South Asian Studies at Stanford (SASS) pod, Lalita du Perron talks to C. Ryan Perkins, curator for South Asian and Islamic Studies at Stanford, about his research, his projects in the library, his trip to Peshawar to meet collectors, and the politics of preservation.

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