ISAS organizes several conferences and symposia throughout the year. Some are interdisciplinary with a regional focus on South Asia, while others are thematic, focusing on a particular topic like Indian democracy or economic policy in Bangladesh.
The 21st Century Indian City: On Urbanization in India
- Towns, Metros, and the Indian Economy
- Working Towards Being Slum Free?
- Developing an Agenda for Urbanization in India
Cross-regional
- Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Professor Gerald Berreman
- Sewing Power: Labor Rights in the Garment Industry in South Asia
- Rethinking Religion, Ethics, and Political Economy in India and Sri Lanka: Critical perspectives from Japan
- Annual South Asia Conference
Economic Governance Index of South & Southeast Asia
Economic Policy in Bangladesh
Graduate Student Workshops
- Violence & Social Creativity Workshop led by Dr. Ashis Nandy
- A Conversation with Ashis Nandy (Mike Levien, Ph.D Candidate in Sociology)
- Cities and Citizenship: Interrogating Urbanism in Contemporary South Asia
Indian Democracy
Pakistan
Religion
- A Tale for All Seasons: The Rāmāyaṇa from Antiquity to Modernity in South Asia
- Swami Vivekananda: Celebrating his 150th birth anniversary
- The Study of Jainism: A Symposium in honor of Prof. Padmanabh Jaini's 90th Birthday
- Islam Today: New Media and Youth Culture in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia
- Hunood wa Musalman: Religion in Mughal India
South Asian Art
South Asia by the Bay Graduate Student Conference
- Offense! The Public Life of Injury in South Asia (Stanford University, April 15, 2017)
- Indian Ocean Topographies, Contemporary Worlds, and Situated Practices (UC Davis, April 22-23, 2016)
- Precarious Exchange: Materiality, Network, and Value in South Asia in the World (UC Berkeley, May 8-9, 2015)
- Feminist Interventions: On Gender and South Asia (UC Santa Cruz, May 2-3, 2014)\
- Tense Times: Intimacies, Enemies, & Strangers in South Asia (Stanford University, May 17-18, 2013)
- South Asia by the Bay Graduate Student Conference (Stanford University, May 9-11, 2012)