Friday, May 9, 2025 – 12pm – 5pm, Foster 107 Dr. Norman H. Zide (1928-2023) was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Studies and former Department Chair. For three and a half decades he created a center for the study of the Munda language family of India at University of Chicago. In the 1960s-1970s […]
Event Category: Lecture
Inaugural Papiya Ghosh Memorial Lecture: “Gujarat to Delhi: Modi’s Strategies to Win and Retain Power,” Christophe Jaffrelot, Avantha Chair and Professor, Indian Politics and Sociology, King’s India Institute (5pm, Location TBA) Since his Gujarat years, Narendra Modi relies on the same strategies for conquering and retaining power: communal polarisation, national-populist communication techniques, the capture of […]
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 – 11:30am – 1pm, Foster 103 Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Punjab Progressivism in art and literature emerged during the interwar years in South Asia with the formation of the Progressive Writers Association in 1936 in Lucknow. […]
Thursday, May 22, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103 Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University Thiranagama draws upon Lacan’s notion of the “extimate,” understood as the other in the heart of the intimate, first to describe how caste and ethnicity contour the dense social public life of Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims in […]
Thursday 10:00am – 6:30pm, Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm, Foster 103 Muzaffar Alam (Emeritus, George V. Bobrinsky Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations) is widely recognized as one of the most influential contemporary scholars of Mughal South Asia and as a central figure in what has come to be called the “New Mughal Historiography.” Yet […]