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2024 is a significant election year globally with more voters than ever before heading to the polls. India will hold the largest election of them all and is one of several South Asian countries to have national votes this year. This four-part series – led by Harvard Professors Arunabh Ghosh, Maya Jasanoff and Vatsal Naresh – will feature cutting-edge scholars across the social sciences and media who will come together over the next two months to provoke discussions about democracy, the press, and diasporic politics that resonate with parallel trends in the U.S., Asia, and globally.
Part 2: From the Outside In
How do India’s neighbors perceive recent developments in India?
Date: Monday, March 25, 2024 at 12:00 pm
Location: Online on Zoom, with in-person watch party in CGIS South, Room S030 (Lee)
This session features the following speakers:
- Nusrat Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College
- Farzana Haniffa, Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Colombo
- Nida Kirmani, Associate Professor of Sociology, Lahore University of Management Sciences
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Kanak Mani Dixit, Founding editor of Himal Southasian
Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh (Department of History, Harvard University)
For Zoom info and more information about part two of the series please click here.
To read more about the overall series, please click here.