Global South Asian Studies Faculty Accomplishments

Professor Hari Krishnan professor of Dance, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global South Asian studies, received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in choreography. Read more here.

Professor William Pinch recently published a book chapter “History and Hindi Film,” in Kim Nelson, Mia Treacey, and Marnie Hughes-Warrington (eds.), The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image (London: Routledge, October 2023), pp. 176-193.

This engages with Robert Rosenstone and Hayden White’s reflections on the intersections of film and history by way of my use of film in teaching over the last thirty-two years or so at Wesleyan.  I also discuss Navdeep Singh’s film “Laal Kaptaan” (with which I had a small involvement and available on Amazon Prime) toward the end of the essay.

Professor Andrew Quintman participated on a panel, “Songs of Milarepa,” at the

Jaipur Literature Festival in February 2024

Professor Andrew Quintman delivered a talk:  “Buddhism on the Border: The Formation of Religious Tradition on the Himalayan Frontier,” at Indiana University on March 22, 2024

Professor David Nelson performs on April 16, 2024 at the Cleveland Tyagaraja Festival, accompanying the Carnatica Brothers. 

Professor Anuja Jain was recently invited to write a short exposition on documentary filmmaker Vinay Shukla's film, While We Watched (2022):   "Precarity and Possibility of Dissent,” March 2024.  It can be found here:  Docalogue, https://docalogue.com/while-we-watched/.

Professor Anuja Jain constituted, chaired and presented on a panel, "Beyond the Screen: Objects, Histories, and Methods of South Asian Cinema Studies" at the Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, in Boston, March 14-17, 2024. Her paper was titled "Between Stillness and Movement: Afterlife of Images and Indian Cinema of 1960s – 1970s."