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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...

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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...

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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...

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TAPSA: The Atmospheric Discontent of Make-in-India

TAPSA: “The Atmospheric Discontent of Make-in-India,” Ashima Mittal, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago (5pm, Foster 103) This talk examines the mediation of economic and social interests that are enacted through the framework of...

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