Events
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All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
TAPSA: The Garb of Modernity”: The NRI Gaze and the Indian Developmental State
Nisarg Mehta PhD Candidate, Sociology This talk explores the nature of the bi-directional relationship between the Indian State and the Indian diaspora. First, I explicate the post-colonial State’s attitudes towards its diaspora in comparative perspective and...
Southern Asia Seminar: Describing India – People’s Movements and Knowledge Production
Ganesh N. Devy Obaid Siddiqi Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, and Professor of Eminence at the Somaiya University, Bombay The lecture will outline three democratic popular movements...
Southern Asia Seminar: Explaining Variation of Colonial Narratives in Postcolonial States: Denunciation and Valorization in Southeast Asia
Dean Dulay Assistant Professor, Singapore Mangement University Research on the negative impacts of colonialism is well-established across the social sciences. In spite of this, considerable variation exists in how postcolonial states situate their colonial...
Mughal Rule to the Raj: The Imperial Transition in South Asia Workshop
A workshop on the imperial transition in South Asia from Mughal rule to the British Raj. For more information, visit the website, voices.uchicago.edu/mughals-to-raj. Tiraana Bains - Dartmouth College Felicia Gottmann - Northumbria University Anirban Karak - New...
Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote: Rhetorical Modes and Emotional Formation in an Old Tamil Anthology
Professor Martha Ann Selby, Sangam Tamil Chair in the Department of South Asia Studies at Harvard University In this talk, I will explore how poetic convention dictates expressions of grief and sorrow in love, while providing examples of poems in which literary...
Doing Being Other in Global Singapore
All events free and open to the public Description The Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore is known for being an exceptionally multiracial, multilingual, multicultural, and multireligious place, and commentators often say that a Singaporean can look or...
Discovering Image Practices in South Asia
Discovering Image Practices in South Asia Alkazi Foundation for the Arts introduces their latest Reader, Unframed, co-published with HarperCollins India, 2023. A new volume for students and enthusiasts of contemporary photography and lens-based media from South...
TAPSA: Translation and Philology at the Mughal Court: The Impressive Failure of Khāliqdād’s Panchatantra
Ayelet Kotler, PhD Student I Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations This paper explores a 1590s Persian retranslation of the Panchatantra, commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar. It argues that retranslations, and particularly failed or incomplete...
TAPSA: What is Bhāva?: The Textures of Thought & Praxis in South Asia
Dhruv Nager, PhD Student Divinity School Part intellectual history, part philosophical archaeology, this paper interrogates the polysemic and transdisciplinary domain of the concept and practice of bhāva in Indian intellectual history, focusing on three key...
The Ice Cream Sellers: A Film Screening & Discussion with Director Sohel Rahman
Ice Cream Sellers (75'') tells the story of two little siblings and the genocide survivors of the Rohingya community who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh after a brutal genocide. Sohel Rahman is an award winning filmmaker, writer, and producer based in Lisbon,...
