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Event Archive
TAPSA: Studying Old Grammar
Jo Brill, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago What can we learn by studying the Sanskrit grammatical tradition through the lens of a scholarly community that flourished in Pune in the second part of the twentieth...
Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote: Decolonizing Linguistics from South Asia: Practices in Search of a Theory
Chicago Tamil Forum: Social Meeting and Pragmatics in Tamil Discourse Keynote Lecture: Suresh Canagarajah (Pennsylvania State University) This presentation will draw from communicative practices in South Asia to outline their differences from dominant...
Lunchtime Lyrics: A Celebration of South Asian Poetry in Translation
Lunchtime Lyrics: A Celebration of South Asian Poetry in Translation Francesca Chubb-Confer, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago ...
Southern Asia Seminar: The Poetics of Hindutva
HYBRID EVENT Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley V.D. Savarkar, the principal ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism and author of “Essentials of Hindutva” -- the de facto manifesto of the Hindu right -- thought of himself as a poet...
TAPSA: Tell Me That Tale: Genre and Translation in Theghnāth’s Gītā Bhāṣā
Akshara Ravishankar Parmeswaram, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago Much scholarship on the Gītā’s premodern life has tended to focus on its early textual past, and its extraordinary role as a philosophical and...
Southern Asia Seminar: A Vernacular Archive of Sexuality: Snapshots from Colonial North India
Charu Gupta, Professor of History, The University of Delhi Gupta's talk will draw from their research of more than thirty years on different subjects and arenas, to reflect on how and why the vernacular has been her constitutive archive to study sex and sexuality...
Dalit Studies and the Study of Caste: The State of the Field
Caste is among the oldest and most stubbornly entrenched forms of social inequality in human history. And as an object of research, it is “entangled” in intellectual and political agendas that have their own history, primarily but not exclusively tied to B. R....
TAPSA: On Being Black in Fayżi’s Nal o Daman: Poetic Adaptations of Nala and Damayantī into a Persian Mas̱navi
Alexandra Hoffman, PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Nal, one of the protagonists of Abo’l Fayż Fayżi’s (d. 1595 CE) mas̱navi Nal o Daman, loses everything in a dice-game when he finds himself possessed by ʿeshq...
75 Years Post-Partition: Artist Pritika Chowdhry on her Partition Anti-Memorial Project
In 2007, Pritika Chowdhry created her installation, Queering Mother India, an anti-memorial that examines the experience of women in the Partition of India in 1947. Since then she has continued to build on this body of work through the Partition Anti-Memorial...
From Mughal Rule to the Raj: A Conversation with William Dalrymple
Chicago Dialogues Season #2 Episode 6 Introduction by Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty Moderators by Dr. Sunit Singh, Dr. Steven Pincus, and Dr. James M. Vaughn The shift from Mughal rule to the British Empire in South Asia has long been a subject of interest to scholars and...
