Events

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Laetitia Zecchini, Director of the IRL 'Humanities' CNRS, University of Chicago This presentation discusses the role played by print – and especially periodical – culture - during the Cold War. “Pressing the Fight”...

Southern Asia Seminar: Screenwriting and the First Indian Talkies: Pedagogy, Precarity and the Parsi Theatre

Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto The arrival of talkies in the early 1930s was an important historical juncture in the aesthetic and economic reformation of Indian...

Prahlad Singh Tipaniya and Kabir Singers

Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 4pm, Logan Center for the Arts Penthouse Prahlad Singh Tipaniya is an internationally acclaimed folk singer from the village of Lunyakhedi, Madhya Pradesh. He is renowned for his singing and interpretation of Kabir and other Hindi poets...

TAPSA: Osman: The Prophetic Journey of a Rohingya Refugee Musician

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Tomal Hossain, PhD Candidate, Music Department, University of Chicago This TAPSA session will feature a hybrid conversation between Tomal Hossain and Osman Goni, a Rohingya refugee musician based in Kutupalong...

Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748–1858

Friday, March 22, 2024 - 3:30pm, Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th Floor Katherine Schofield, Senior Lecturer, Department of Music, King’s College London Katherine Schofield will be presenting the conclusions of her new book, Music and Musicians in Late...

Southern Asia Seminar: The Love Tub of Duff: Christianity, Conversion and the Law in Colonial Calcutta

Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Mou Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison This talk examines the growing unease in Calcutta’s Hindu elite society over the power of the Christian missionary as teacher,...

SAGSC XXI: South Asia Graduate Student Conference

Islam in South and Southeast Asia Join us for our 21st Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference! This year's conference, ISLAM IN SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIA, welcomes keynote speaker Teren Sevea, who delivers his lecture, Karāmāt: The Prophet's Eastern Heirs...

TAPSA: Language Use and Identity Constructions among mixed-race Indo-Fijians

Steven Castro, PhD Student, Linguistics, University of Chicago Language Use and Identity Constructions among mixed-race Indo-Fijians This research project examines the role of language variation in the conceptualization and lived experiences of race and mixedness...

Southern Asia Seminar: Maximum Pressure: How Refugee Repatriation Shapes Conflict

Christopher Blair, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University Maximum Pressure: How Refugee Repatriation Shapes Conflict How does mass refugee return shape conflict dynamics in destination communities? In 2018, the Trump Administration...

TAPSA: Investigating the genetic history of humans in the trans-Himalaya

Esha Bandyopadhyay, PhD Student, Human Genetics, University of Chicago Investigating the genetic history of humans in the trans-Himalaya The Himalayan arc has played a crucial role in molding the genetic, cultural, and ethno-linguistic diversity of human...