Past Events

Presentation and Discussion with Dr. Mondira Bhattacharya, Post-Doctoral Researcher Graduate Institute for International Development, Agriculture and Economics (GIIDAE), University of Reading

Nanditha Narayanamoorthy Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, School of Information and Library Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Siegel Family Endowment Fellow

CIRCLE get together on 10 May at 4:15 p.m., 9th Floor Foyer, Mackinnon. Meet and greet over chai and snacks. Please RSVP to help us accurately order catering. 

Stuart McCook, Assistant Vice-President International, Office of International Strategy and Partnerships & Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph

CIRCLE Drop in for Chai ALL ARE WELCOME!

CIRCLE Weekly Drop in for Chai Thursdays, 10–11 a.m. MacKinnon, 9th floor First weekly chai on Thursday, February 2 at 10 a.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Smitha Radhakrishnan, Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College. The hybrid seminar will examine how the Indian microfinance industry leverages “success stories” of women clients to legitimize the unfair terms on which working class women are drawn into India’s microfinance industry. Professor Radhakrishnan is author of Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke University Press 2022) and Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a Transnational Class (Duke University Press 2011).

CIRCLE Drop in for Chai Wednesday, December 14 4:00–5:30 p.m. 019 McKinnon, UofG RSVPs appreciated to help us steep appropriately and avoid waste.

Fillum Circle presents Screening and discussion of “The Great Indian Kitchen” (2021, dir. Jeo Baby),  Thursday, 10 November 2022 | 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Room 019 (Interdisciplinary Hub), Mackinnon Building, University of Guelph "A terrific, trenchant film, whose director Jeo Baby questions patriarchy and gender expectations...and looks at the very real possibility of smashing them." Shubhra Gupta, The Indian Express. A trailer of the film is available here. All are welcome.

Join us for the Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement's (CIRCLE) first in-person social event to catch up with colleagues, network and discuss upcoming activities. All are welcome.