Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
Southern Asia Seminar: Bhartṛhari’s view of language: is sphoṭa a mystic entity?
Mithilesh Chaturvedi, Professor, Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi In Bhartṛhari’s philosophy, language and thought are not two distinct entities. Before speech manifests itself, it remains identified with the meaning. Thus, thought and language exist...
Film Screening of Jai Bhim Comrade, Followed by Discussion with Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan and Ritika Kaushik
For thousands of years, India’s Dalits were abhorred as “untouchables,” denied education and treated as bonded labor. By 1923, Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad, and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India’s Constitution...
Southern Asia Seminar: Buddhist-inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean: A Pali Arena, 1200-1550
Anne Blackburn, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University Based on Blackburn's new book, this talk presents case studies from locations in what are now Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand, and draws larger historical and methodological...
Researching Caste: The Uncharted World of Santram BA
Charu Gupta, Visiting Fellow, Neubauer Collegium for Culture & Society, UChicago & Professor, History Department, University of Delhi In this workshop, I will discuss the writings of Santram BA (1887-1998), a veteran Hindi writer and radical anti-caste...
TAPSA: News That Spread Like Lighting: Reactions to an Emperor’s Death from within a Dying Empire
Andrew Halladay, PhD student, SALC and History With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in September, people in Britain and its erstwhile empire have faced three simultaneous questions: how to register the loss of an international icon, whether to embrace an heir...
Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop 2022
GLAS is an informal academic organization that provides a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order...
Nazarband: A Film Screening and Discussion with Director Suman Mukhopadhyay
Vasanti and Chandu, the unlikely pair of two jailbirds embark on a harrowing journey and unpredictable odyssey drifting across the intimidating terrain of Kolkata. Nazarband is a visceral look at survival and a heartfelt exploration into the depths of companionship...
Southern Asia Seminar: In conversation with Jason Grunebaum, instructional professor, SALC and Annie Janusch, Lecturer, Creative Writing
Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Winner, Translator of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand Daisy Rockwell is a painter and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature. An alum of The College at University of Chicago, she also has a PhD from SALC. She has published...
CISSR Michele Friedner Book Launch for “Sensory Futures”
Join CISSR to discuss and celebrate the book release of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India by Michele Friedner (Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development) who will speak with Jennifer Iverson (Associate Professor of...
