Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
SAS: ‘Like milk without butter or cream’: Money, Politics and the Hinduization of Indian Buddhism, 1920 – 1950
Douglas Ober, Visiting Fellow, Neubauer Collegium, The University of Chicago The idea that the Buddha was ‘born, lived, and died a Hindu’ and that Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism is one of the most popular tropes in India today. The novelty of this idea is only...
Agrarian Crisis and Peoples’ Movements: A Conversation with Navkiran Natt
In September 2020, the Indian Parliament passed three acts aimed at restructuring the country's agricultural sector, setting off a massive protest movement—possibly the largest in human history—among farmers, laborers, and students. These movements, known...
Nineteenth South Asia Graduate Student Conference: “Popular Aesthetics in South Asia: Sensing, consuming, appraising aesthetic forms”
The organizing committee of the Nineteenth South Asia Graduate Students Conference (SAGSC-XIX) is pleased to announce the 2022 conference, Popular Aesthetics in South Asia: Sensing, consuming, appraising aesthetic forms. The conference will take place remotely (via...
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....