Past Events

A growing number of filmmakers who attempt ‘bold’ or unconventional themes, are looking at international film festivals as suitable avenues to reach a larger audience. This webinar explores the socio-cultural reasons for this phenomenon. Guest Speaker: Aysha Iqbal, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras

The two-day interdisciplinary virtual conference focuses on the role of cinema, media and digital technologies in fostering women’s empowerment. The aim of the conference is to understand how new voices of different genders are interrogating traditional roles and stereotypes, attitudes, and beliefs. The event will be particularly interested in women working behind the camera and grappling with the aesthetics and the commerce of filmmaking. The conference will take place on 11 & 12 March 2021, 7:00p.m.-12:30a.m. IST/ 8:30a.m.-2:00p.m. EST.  

Canadian Punjabis expect for sons to ensure care in old age; however, how do sons and daughters understand and experience elder parent/parent-in-law care? This webinar illustrates the involvement of daughters in elder care, but also how sons may play a role in parents coping with their marginalized status in Canada. Guest Speaker: Ashna Jassi, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph

As marginalized urban workers in public spaces, women engaged in waste picking work in the informal economy offer important insights into rapidly changing urban spaces.

Can next generation assisted reproductive technologies enhance livestock productivity and farm income in India? India decided to double farmers’ income by the year 2022. With just two years more to go for achieving the goal, it is quite clear that achievement of this feat will be quite difficult without adoption and enhancement of dairy farming, which has a CAGR of 19.6 per cent.

CIRCLE presents a roundtable on intergenerational storytelling, centred on This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves by Madhur Anand. Speakers:

CIRCLE presents Kanta Murali, Associate Professor of political science at the University of Toronto, in conversation with Ramachandra Guha, the author of the recent book The Commonwealth of Cricket. Following the narrative of his life intertwined and in love with the sport, Guha captures the magic of bat and ball that has ensnared billions.

Government cash transfers (CTs) are a common aid intervention and many households rely on familial remittances. Yet the link between this aid and children's protection, health and education in disaster prone areas is not well understood. This seminar explores how these monetary flows affect children, through a case study of Madhepura District, India. Guest speaker: Elijah Dalton, MSc. Capacity Development and Extension, University of Guelph.

National governance reform is the the central challenge within the Indian water sector. However, national initiatives on legal reform underestimate the challenges of place-specific water issues in the Indian context. This webinar presents case studies on rural-urban transfers of water in large metropolitan centers, highlighting the importance of governance reform and the centrality of politics in the re-allocation of water from agricultural to urban-industrial use.

Since the mid-twentieth century, Asia's two giants have represented alternative models of political modernity. The dramatic rise of Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping, two self-avowed strongmen, has seen remarkable changes in the aims, structure and exercise of power in both regimes. This seminar examines striking commonalities and the ramifications of these historic developments. Guest speaker: Sanjay Ruparelia, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Ryerson University.