Past Events Archive

The Yadunandan Center for India Studies is proud to present the Trans, Plastic, Tagore: A Conversation with Ranjan Ghosh Please join us for a discussion with Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal, Department of English) led by our very own Norbert Schürer (CSULB, Department of English).  Dr.

The Yadunandan Center for India Studies presents: Allan Punzalan Isaac with “Atopic Futures: Philippine-based Artists’ Use of the Otherworldly to Frame Social Justices Issues”Dr. Issac’s talk will be the first of our new series that explores how we might reconceptualize the study of Asia and its diasporas. In this talk, he will focus on Philippine artists’s…

The Yadunandan Center for India Studies at CSULB is proud to present: “Italian Neo-realism and Satyajit Ray” Italian Neo-realism shaped filmmaking around the world in the postwar period. For example, movies such as Rossellini’s Rome Open City (1945), De Sica’s Bicycle Thief (1948), and Visconti’s La Terra Terma (1948) had…

The Yadunandan Center for India Studies is proud to present: The 21st Annual Solanki Lecture.

The Yadunandan Center for India Studies at Cal State Long Beach is proud to present: A Conversation with Aamina Ahmad Aamina Ahmad’s first novel, The Return of Faraz Ali, was named a notable New York Times and National Public Radio pick for 2023 and went on to win the Art Siedenbaum Los Angeles Times First Book Prize, The Writers’ Guild of Great…

Tsewang Dolma, a Tibetan refugee, stood unwavering in her commitment to the hunger strike unto death during the 2015 campaign in Delhi, India. Despite the ensuing health issues, she harbored no regrets after its forced conclusion. The true triumph of that campaign lay in the surge of nationalistic passion it stirred across the Tibetan community. In her…