Past Events


Fall 2023 Events

Wed, Oct 11, 2023
New Directions in Buddhist Art History
--- Sonali Dhingra: Making Monumental Figural Sculpture at Ratnagiri, Odisha (ca. 8th-10th centuries)
--- Padma Dorje Maitland: Emotional Fragments and Modern Networks of Buddhist Materiality in India
5-7 pm  | 10 Stephens Hall

Oct.12-14, 2023
Buddhist Art in a Global World: SAAI Fieldtrip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York with Professor Sugata Ray
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Oct 20-22, 2023
3rd i’s 21st Annual SF Int’l South Asian Film Festival
All day | San Francisco Theatres

Tue, Oct 31, 2023
Indus Blues: The Forgotten Music of Pakistan
5-7 pm  | 10 Stephens Hall

Tue, Dec 5, 2023
New Directions in Modernist Studies
5-7 pm | ​10 ​Stephens Hall

Thu, Dec 7, 2023
Five Tables of Art and Climate Change
4-6 pm | ​BAMPFA

Spring 2023 Events

Tue, February 21, 2023
Nancy Um | The Art of Wood and its Narratives of Mobility across the Western Indian Ocean
5-6:30 p.m. | 308A Doe Library

February 22 – March 21, 2023
Emergenc(y): Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Anthropology & Art Practice Building

Mon, March 13, 2023
Osman Khan | Road to Hybridabad
5-6:30 p.m. |  Location TBA

Mon, April 3, 2023
The South Asia Art Initiative (SAAI) Scholar in Residence Lecture
Partha Mitter | The Triumph of Modernism: Indian Artists and the Global Avant-garde, 1922-1947
5-6:30 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall

​Wed, April 5, 2023
Partha Mitter | The Virtual Cosmopolis
5-6:30 p.m. | ​10 ​Stephens Hall

Fri, April 7, 2023
The South Asia Art Initiative (SAAI) Scholar in Residence Lecture
Partha Mitter | Why do we need to reimagine Modernism?: Global Modernism and its discontents
April 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall

Tue, April 18, 2023
Rochona Majumdar | Anger and its Aftermath in Indian Cinema
5-6:30 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall

Wed, April 19, 2023
UC Berkeley South Asia Art Award Lectures: Titles TBD
5-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall

Sun, Apr 30, 2023
Tsherin Sherpa | Art from the Himalayas: Past into Present
12 p.m. |  BAMPFA

Lectures

Artist Talks

Conferences, Workshops & Documentaries