Events
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All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
TAPSA: Singapore’s Counter-Colonial Aesthetics: The Semiotic Sink of the Westernized Enemy Within
Wee Yang Soh, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology Within sociopolitical discourse in modern Singapore, comparisons with Western powers, primarily the USA and the UK, have become de rigueur. Such comparisons have spanned discussions about race and minority...
Southern Asia Seminar: Launch of Shailaja Paik’s new book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity
Shailaja Paik Taft Distinguished Professor of History and Affiliate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati Shailaja Paik's first book Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination (Routledge, 2014) examines the nexus...
“A Cultural History of South Asian Literature in an Age of Transition (1700-1800)”
This workshop will bring together the scholars involved in a new publication project dedicated to the history of South Asian literature in the eighteenth century. The volume is part of a wider publication project with Bloomsbury titled A Cultural History of South...
Erotic and Devotional Entanglements: The Śṛṅgāra Songs of Tāḷḷapāka Annamayya
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Associate Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences In this talk, I examine the relationship between eroticism (śṛṅgāra) and devotion (bhakti) in Telugu poetry...
TAPSA: “But we are farmers too”: Figures and Refusals of Labour in the Gurgaon-Bawal Automobile Industry
Tanima Sharma, PhD student, Anthroplogy In this talk I examine how 'worker' and 'farmer' identities blur amongst labouring subjects who are part of Haryana's Gurgaon-Bawal automobile industry. In contrast to traditional leftist and trade union vocabularies of a...
TAPSA: Ethnographic Untouchables: Raciology, Ancestry, and Estrangement in Muslim Bengal: 1872–1905
Tamir Reza PhD Student, SALC A Bengali Muslim poet and essayist, Nowsher Ali Khan Yusufzai (1864-1924) wrote the following verse in a 1905 poetry anthology: “O India, the garden of eternal flowering, farewell, farewell, farewell now/ We had stayed for too long...
Southern Asia Seminar: By Her Own Free Will: Non-Dual Reinterpretation of a Śākta Tantric Tradition in the Yoginīhṛdaya
Anya Golovkova Assistant Professor of Religion, Lake Forest College Following the composition of the earliest tantras elucidating the worship of Tripurasundarī, Śrīvidyā (Tradition of the Auspicious Mantra) was reinterpreted through the lens of non-dualism in...
Archiving the History of Modern Bengali Song
The musical genre called “adhunik Bangla gaan” or the “modern Bengali song” is a critical part of the history of modernity in Bengal. Yet this history remains largely undocumented and dispersed in public and private collections. Please join us for a presentation on...
TAPSA: Female Laborforce Participation and Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Social Norms
Rubina Hundal, PhD student, Harris School of Public Policy Female labor force participation is often positively associated with domestic violence, consistent with backlash theory. How does the social acceptability of women’s work change this relationship? Using...
Global Anti-Gender and Anti-LGBTQ+ Politics: Historical Continuities, Transnational Connections, Contested Futures
About the Event In recent years, social movements and political campaigns challenging women’s rights and LGBTQ+ equality have mobilized publics across the globe, from West Africa to Central and Eastern Europe, South Asia to North America. Even as some countries...
