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Lalita du Perron talks to Elspeth Iralu, 2022-23 Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, about her work on Indigenous mapping, Indigeneity, surveillance, and her identity as Angami Naga.

Lalita du Perron talks to Nasiruddin Nezaami about August 2021 and being sponsored by Institute for International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF), his work with the American University of Afghanistan and Stanford Law School, and his research on global cyber crime.

Lalita du Perron talks to Gregory Maxwell Bruce (https://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/gregory-maxwell-bruce/), who teaches Urdu at Berkeley and Stanford, about his multiple book projects, love of language, and the Journal of Urdu Studies, published by Brill (https://brill.com/).

Lalita du Perron talks to Halima Kazem (Twitter @halimakazem) about the Afghanistan Oral History Project at Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University and her work training journalists in Afghanistan.

Lalita du Perron talks to Moogdho Mim Mahzab, postdoctoral scholar at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, about his work on improving brick kilns and lead acid batteries operations in Bangladesh and the challenges of developmental economy.

Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford University Press South Asia in Motion series editors Thomas Blom Hansen and Dylan Kyung-lim White about the history of the Press, the motivation behind the series, and what makes a great book proposal.

Links: Stanford University Press and South Asia in Motion

Lalita du Perron talks to Anuradha Bhasin about her role as executive editor of the Kashmir Times, the challenges facing the media in Kashmir, and her time at Stanford as a JSK Journalism Fellow. Follow Anuradha on Twitter: @anuradhabhasin_

Lalita du Perron talks to Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs about her forthcoming book The Trauma of Caste, survivor power, caste in Silicon Valley, the importance of mentorship, and healing for all.

Link to book: https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/the-trauma-of-caste/

Lalita du Perron talks to the multifaceted Chandra Vadhana Radhakrishnan, a Fulbright Program Fellow in the Gender Innovations Lab at Stanford History, about gender equality, entrepreneurship, self-care, and having/wanting to do it all.

Links:

Her Stanford History page

Prayaana Labs

Shesite

E-commerce site

Identity film

Lalita du Perron talks to Gayatri Sethi (@desibookaunty on Instagram) about her time at Stanford Graduate School of Education, her book Unbelonging (from which she reads an excerpt), and what is considered home. Apologies for occasional internet issues.

Links referenced in episode:

1947 Partition Archive: https://www.1947partitionarchive.org/

Unbelonging: https://mangoandmarigoldpress.com/products/unbelonging