Events
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Event Archive
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...
Literary Politics: Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Experiments with Socialist Realism and his turn to Historical Fiction
Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Sawyer French, PhD Candidate in Anthropology/Divinity School, University of Chicago What political demands do we place on literature? When revolution is in the air, what are the duties of the author? These were the...
Whither Tamil Research? A Workshop in Honor of E. Annamalai
Friday – Saturday, October 3 - 4, 2025 , Foster 103 Whither Tamil Research? A Workshop in Honor of E. Annamalai This workshop brings together students and scholars of Tamil who trained at the University of Chicago with E. Annamalai, along with E. Annamalai himself,...
India’s Eucalyptus Affair: Development, Environmental Management, and Politics c. 1960-1990.
Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Aditya Balasubramanian, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian National University This talk sketches a history of postcolonial development as environmental (mis)management by exploring the tensions introduced by...
TAPSA: Negotiating Care and Precarity: Social Reproduction, Intersectionality, and Informal Work in Urban India
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Priyanjali Mitra, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago This talk examines how working-class households in Gurgaon’s urban villages are sustained through gendered labor, negotiations of precarity, and...
Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Friday – Saturday, May 9 - 10, 2025 - 9am - 8pm both days, The Franke Institute for the Humanities Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars...
A Celebration of the Academic Legacy of Professor Norman H. Zide
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...
South Asia Seminar: Constraints of Form in the Avantisundarī
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Janet Um, Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia The Avantisundarī (7th c.) is a Sanskrit prose composition best known for providing an account of its author, the poet and theorist Daṇḍin. This...