Events
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Event Archive
TAPSA: Half-Castes and Parts: Labels and Language Use for Constructions of Mixedness in Fiji
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 Steven Castro, PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago This project investigates the utilization of linguistic labels to reflect how race and by extension, mixedness, are conceptualized in Fiji....
TAPSA: Encounters with Chinese Marxist Ideological Education: Tibetan Teenagers’ Moral Development and Practical Wisdom
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103: Xue Han, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Contemporary Tibetan teenagers are obligated to receive a uniform anti-religious Marxist ideological education in formal...
Southern Asia Seminar: Bodies and Buildings: Performing Arts and Performing Artists in the Temples of Classical and Medieval India
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 Anna Tosato, Visiting Scholar and Bhagwan Munisuvrata Swami Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Religion, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Performing arts played a crucial role in shaping the cultural...
TAPSA: From Learning to Earning: The Influence of Siblings on Job and Wage Preferences
Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 Rubina Hundal, PhD Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago This study explores how sibling dynamics, particularly among same-sex siblings within a 2 – 5 year age gap, shape job preferences and...
South Asia Seminar: From the American Southwest to India’s Deccan Plateau: John M. Fritz at Hampi Vijayanagara
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 George Michell, Founder-Trustee, Deccan Heritage Foundation Trained at the University of Chicago as an anthropologist with a special interest in prehistoric Native American sites in New Mexico and Arizona, the late Dr....
TAPSA: Organizing Mistrust: How India’s Leaders Navigate Bureaucratic Resistance on Foreign Policy
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 Emily Tallo, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Bureaucratic competencies—technical and regional expertise, specialized skills, information provision, and institutional knowledge and...
The Right to Health: Sex Workers and the LGBTQ+ Community in India and Uganda
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 12:15pm, The University of Chicago Law School 1111 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 Anand Grover, Director, HIV/AIDS Unit, Lawyer’s Collective India Anand Grover, one of India's leading human rights litigators, will reflect on the...
South Asian Seminar: Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor, English Department, Yale This talk will concern the author's recent monograph, Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. The book explores how...
Discussion with Kshama Sawant
Friday, May 10, 2024 - 2:30pm, KPTC 103 Kersten Physics Teaching Center 5720 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. We will discuss how and why Kshama's...
Comparative Politics Workshop: Democratic Dissent Amid Democratic Erosion in Contemporary India
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 3:30pm - 4:50pm, Pick Hall 506 Amrita Basu, Professor, Political Science and Sexuality, Women’s & Gender Studies, Amherst College This talk will compare the two most significant protest movements against the Modi-led Hindu nationalist...