In April, the Maxwell School hosted the annual Cornell-Syracuse South Asia Consortium featuring a panel discussion and film screening.
On April 24, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs hosted the annual Cornell-¬Syracuse South Asia Consortium (SAC). Beginning with a symposium hosted by Maxwell professor Devashish Mitra, “Contemporary Politics in South Asia” featured Walter Anderson, Administrative Director of the South Asia Studies Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, and Ambassador Touqir Hussain, a former senior diplomat from Pakistan and senior visiting fellow at SAIS. Navine Murshid, assistant professor of political science at Colgate University; Vikash Yadav, associate professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith (HWS) Colleges; and Feisal Khan, associate professor of economics at HWS responded to both speakers’ discussions of Hindu nationalism and Pakistan’s instability within current geopolitical paradigms.
Following the table discussion, the South Asia Center in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs screened Kevin Dalvi’s “Promise Land,” a 2013 film about three South Asian immigrant families in post 9/11 America. Davi then addressed participants in a moderated talk-¬back, facilitated by Faris Ahmed Khan G’14, visiting assistant professor of LGBT studies at Sarah Lawrence College. The 2015 South Asia Consortium was a marked success, and students from an array of Syracuse University programs were in attendance. As part of the Maxwell School’s 90th Anniversary celebrations, the symposium was live–streamed for those not able to attend.