I am recruiting an RA for my Wenner-Gren funded ethnographic research in Vrindavan. Details here nls.ac.in/news-events/ca…

We have been nominated for the Peabody Awards! “The Peabody Awards honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media every year.” 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Looking forward to Association of Asian American Studies AAAStudies conference in Seattle. My panel today is talking about conservative/right wing formations among South Asian Americans!!

📢 Join us for the launch event & panel discussion for our new report 'Magistrates & Constitutional Protections: An Ethnographic Study of First Production & Remand in Delhi Courts'.

📅 Friday, 3 May 2024, 5:30pm
📍 Multipurpose Hall, India International Centre, New Delhi

The Asian Law & Society Association seeks applications for its annual Junior Scholar Workshop, 12 Dec 2024 in Seoul, Korea!

For advanced-stage PhD students, postdocs, faculty in first three years.

Application deadline: June 24!

For details: alsa.network/alsa-meetings

What does the everyday life of the right to be produced before a magistrate within 24 hours of arrest look like?How do the irritants of life interfere with the ambition of the law?

Join us for the release of this important Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi report by Zeba Sikora and Jinee Lokaneeta!!

Check out Professor Lokaneeta’s talk on the relationship between policing and rights. She is one of our finest scholars.

Huge respect for David Ludden, historian of South Asia, who helped form a human chain around peacefully protesting NYU students and was arrested along with many other students and faculty members.
#GazaGenocides
#NYU

Really hoping that this study brings more focus on pre trial safeguards, magistrates & their role in protecting Constitutional rights during the first 24 hours of arrest. An amazing panel to discuss the report! with thanks to a great team Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi Zeba Sikora Anup Surendranath

Please go if you are in Delhi for the launch of this important report on the state of legal protections when an accused is produced in front of a magistrate for the first time! Jinee Lokaneeta

The magistrates courts remain woefully understudied in India - despite being responsible for fundamental constitutional protections.
Satisfying to have done this at Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi led by Jinee Lokaneeta and Zeba Sikora
Join us for the launch on 3rd May with a fantastic panel.

Heavy police crackdown on NYU students and faculty. Lots of people arrested !! Close friends who are faculty protecting the protest site have also been arrested!! #palestine #nyu4palestine spread the word!

Really hoping that this study brings more focus on pre trial safeguards, magistrates & their role in protecting Constitutional rights during the first 24 hours of arrest. An amazing panel to discuss the report! with thanks to a great team Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi Zeba Sikora Anup Surendranath

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University condemns student arrests on campus.

To read the full statement:

In solidarity with the call for an academic boycott fsjp-cbt , my April 24th talk on caste, dissent and history is postponed. I stand with scholars working in Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies. We must continue to Educate, Agitate and Organize. Jai Bhim🍉

BREAKING: American Actress Susan Sarandon joins the Palestine solidarity activists rallying outside of Columbia University to express her support with the students.

“You give me hope, to me and so many people. And in the end the truth will win.”

Call for new editorial team of Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
Ten years ago, Cambridge University Press founded the book series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics.

Are you an academic based in India and looking for short term fellowships in the UK? Are you also prepared to enjoy the beautiful north of England? Uni of Leeds might just have something for you to apply for!

PS. Bring a coat.

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