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Announcing the seventh book event on South Asia-related topics held by Dartmouth College. 

Conversations on South Asia Series  

Naisargi Dave, “Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being”, April 10th, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (EST). 
 
Join us for an engaging Zoom event with Naisargi N. Davé as she discusses Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Davé shows how interspecies relationality in India is animated by an ethic of indifference---that is, an orientation of mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, desire, or animus. For Davé, indifference is a respect for others in their otherness that allows human and nonhuman animals to flourish in immanent encounters. Indifference, or vital nonalignment, becomes the basis for an interspecies ethics, a method of care and practice in everyday life, and a scholarly approach.

📚 Book Spotlight: “Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being” by Naisargi N. Davé
📅 Date: April 10th, 2025
⏰ Time: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM EST
📍Virtual Zoom 
💻Register Here:
 https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iMWe4_MQTcmdj5XCFk7efQ

🎙️Speaker
Naisargi N. Davé, Professor, Anthropology, University of Toronto

🎙️Commentators
Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, University of Washington

Kajri Jain, Professor, Visual Studies and Art History, and Graduate Chair, Art History, University of Toronto

🎙️Moderator
Nikhil Pandhi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, and Lecturer, Anthropology, Dartmouth College

Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. 
 
QR code (leads to registration form) on the poster.