Events

Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Sachaet Pandey, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago Over the course of the 20th century, a large hydroelectric grid took shape in the rain-drenched mountains that cut across Western India. Storing...

The Legacy of Avicennism in Nineteenth-Century South Asia

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 4:30pm, Stuart 104 Asad Q. Ahmed, The Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley This...

Country Music as Theory: Intersections & Implications for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Friday - Saturday, April 25 - 26, 2025 - 9am - 5:30pm both days, The Franke Institute for the Humanities Join Anna Schultz (UChicago), Sumanth Gopinath (U of Minnesota), and Fiona Boyd (UChicago) for Country Music as Theory—a two-day conference from April 25-26...

Swara Sudha: Celebrating Rama Navami

Friday, April 25, 2025 - 6pm - 8:30pm, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Welcome to Swara Sudha: Celebrating Rama Navami! Join us for a vibrant celebration at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, featuring veena maestro Ramana Balachandhran, vid. Akshay Anantapadmanabhan on...

South Asia Seminar: Pūrṇavarman’s Prints: Sanskrit Epigraphy as Indigenous Practice in Early West Java

Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Elizabeth A. Cecil, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Florida State University The earliest surviving Sanskrit inscriptions from Java, sponsored by the fifth-century ruler Pūrṇavarman, embed royal authority in...

South Asia Seminar and Ethnoise Talk: Kathak Storytelling and Transformation in Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:30pm, The Joseph Regenstein Library 270 Sarah Morelli, Professor and Chair, Departments of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Denver Kathak’s storytelling tradition enables dancers to embody multiple, often contrasting...

Graduate Commons presents: Language Tables

Monday, April 21, 2025 – 5:30pm – 7:00pm, International House Assembly Room 1414 E 59th St Chicago, IL 60637 Join us for an engaging language learning experience. Practice or learn a new language through fun conversations and exciting activities. This event is...

Remembering McKim Marriott

Join us in remembrance of Professor McKim Marriott (2pm, Swift Common) Welcome remarks: Constantine V. Nakassis (Chair and Professor of Anthropology, the University of Chicago) Remarks and remembrances from: Ralph Nicholas (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, the...

Eclectic Geographies of Tamil Music

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Davesh Soneji, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania This talk considers the somatic and sensorial practices of music, dance, and theatre among Tamil-speakers as sources of global...

TAPSA: Standard Differences, Different Standards

Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Shubham Shivang, PhD Student, Departments of Anthropology and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago This talk takes up the “problem” of standardization in the North Indian language of Bhojpuri, categorized as a...