Thursday January 30, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103 Sthira Bhattacharya, PhD Candidate, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago This talk examines the rhetorical moves through which spokespersons from three middle-caste communities—Ahir, Kurmi, and Kalwar—navigated contemporary categories of caste and religion to posit new aspirational identities for their groups vis-à-vis upper castes, […]
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Thursday February 13, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103 Ronit Ghosh, PhD Candidate, Departments of Music and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Departing from existing approaches that study the modern Bengali song exclusively as a literary artifact and an extension of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century song Bengali sung-lyric and (semi)-classical salon tradition, […]