Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
Global Reflections on Afghanistan: A Roundtable Discussion
This event will be both an in-person and virtual event. The event will be held in David Rubenstein Forum, 1201 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Register Here to attend either in-person or to receive a zoom link to attend virtually. In September 2021, the longest war...
Southern Asia Seminar: Gifts of Dharma. Shaping Śaiva communities between tradition and innovation
Florinda De Simini, Associate Professor of the History of Ancient and Medieval India, The University of Naples In this talk, I will focus on the rules regulating the relationships between the lay and the monastic communities of the Śaivas through the practice of...
India in a World Adrift: A conversation on peace and security with Shivshankar Menon
(9am CST, 8:30pm IST, Zoom) Shivshankar Menon, Chair of the Ashoka Centre for China Studies and visiting professor at Ashoka University; Faculty Sponsor, Paul Staniland, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and moderated by Shreyas...
TAPSA: “Situation Normal…”: Bureaucratic Documentary Film during the Indian Emergency (1975-77)
Ritika Kaushik, PhD Candidate in Cinema and Media Studies, The University of Chicago This talk is an inquiry into the interplay and negotiations between authoritarian control and formal innovation in state sponsored documentary filmmaking during the Indian...
The Politics of Home in 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 with Author Samira Ahmed
Moderated by Rashmi Joshi, Associate Director of COSAS, Introduction by Jason Grunebaum, Instructional Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and co-sponsored with the Seminary Co-op, University of Chicago Department of English, University of Chicago...
TAPSA: Saffron and Blue: Brahminical Hindutva Cultural Politics and the Dalit Anti-Caste Movement in Chennai
Pranathi Diwakar, PhD Candidate in Sociology, The University of Chicago The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests that swept the nation in 2019-20 exposed divergent imaginations of India’s political futures. In this talk, I look at this political moment as one...
Reconstructing the Genetic History of Human Populations in South Asia
Maanasa Raghavan, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago Recent advances in molecular biology and DNA sequencing technologies have facilitated the retrieval and sequencing of DNA from human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts....
A Tale of Two Indian Cities: Delhi Reinterpreted at Daulatabad in the Late Medieval Perio
We invite you to join us for an upcoming online lecture by Mohit Manohar (Yale University). This event will take place over Zoom on Monday, January 31 at 5:00pm CT with live Q&A to follow. Co-sponsored by Department of Art History, University of Chicago. ...
TAPSA: Manufacturing Gods in the Rigveda
Claudio Sansone, Humanities Teaching Fellow, The University of Chicago Sansone argues that the Rbhus, a group of minor divinities in the Rigveda, reveal a tension in the conceptualization of labor. The Rbhus are portrayed as craftsmen and laborers, and are...
South Asia Seminar: “You May Marry a Second Wife If the First One is Not Virtuous or Fertile”: Permissions in Mīmāṃsā
Elisa Freschi, Assistant Professor of South Asian Philosophy, The University of Toronto This talk is part of an ongoing project on commands in the Sanskrit school of Mīmāṃsā. But whereas prohibitions (e.g. "Don't harm any living being") and prescriptions ("Perform...