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Southern Asia Seminar: Bassam Sidiki, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin
Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Bassam Sidiki, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin Hosted by the Committee on Southern Asian Studies
TAPSA: Ilqua Lutfi, PhD Candidate in Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Thursday, November 13, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Ilqua Lutfi, PhD Candidate in Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Hosted by the Committee on Southern Asian Studies
History and Its Discontents: In Honor of Twenty-Five Years of Provincializing Europe
Thursday - Friday , November 13 - 14, 2025 , John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224) History and Its Discontents: In Honor of Twenty-Five Years of Provincializing Europe (John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224), The University of Chicago For further details, please...
Getting Started as a Literary Translator
Monday, November 10, 2025 - 2:00pm, Logan 801 Getting Started as a Literary Translator With award-winning translator, Daisy Rockwell Curious about what it takes to become a translator? Many grad students find themselves translating as part of the writing they do...
Teaching Literary Translation: A Pedagogy Roundtable
Monday, November 10, 2025 - 9:00am, Logan 801 Teaching Literary Translation: A Pedagogy Roundtable With award-winning translators and UChicago faculty Daisy Rockwell, Rachel Galvin, Jessica Kirzane, Anne Janusch, Pouneh Shabani Jadidi, and Jason Grunebaum Hosted by...
Southern Asia Seminar: Anjali Arondekar, Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Anjali Arondekar, Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies If archives of indenture are flooded with markers of identification that suture presence to labor, what happens to the labor of...
Varieties of Melodrama Conference
Thursday – Saturday, November 6 - 8, 2025 , (Logan 201 & Cobb 307) Varieties of Melodrama Conference Guru Dutt and Ritwik Ghatak at 100 Films: Aar Paar (1954), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960), Subarnarekha (1965) Featuring Professors Richard...
Southern Asia Seminar: Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology
Thursday, October 30, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington Hosted by the Committee on Southern Asian Studies
Screening of A-Akash Ganga, a production of Annapurna Devi Foundation
Sunday, October 26, 2025 - 4:30pm - 7:30PM, Cobb 307 Screening of A-Akash Ganga, a production of Annapurna Devi Foundation, Directed by Nirmal Chander. Followed by a performance by Pramantha Tagore In 1956, Annapurna Devi le public performance to preserve her...
The Interface of Bruno Latour and Buddhist Madhyamaka: Potential Futures in Latourian and Madhyamaka Thought
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Seth Auster-Rosen , Divinity School, University of Chicago In this paper, I discuss similarities between the reasoning in Bruno Latour's early socio-philosophical work, The Pasteurization of France (originally Les...