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Event Archive
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...
TAPSA: Seeing (or Perceiving) Race in Multiracial Singapore: Toward a Semiotics of Looking
TAPSA: Joshua Babcock, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, The University of Chicago This talk explores how perceptions of person-types in Singapore are mediated by a visual epistemology of race. Shaped by colonial and postcolonial legacies, visual perception is both...
Southern Asia Seminar: Joel Lee
Southern Asia Seminar: Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College Event details forthcoming Zoom registration link...
POSTPONED: TAPSA: On Being Black in Fayżi’s 𝘕𝘢𝘭 𝘰 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘯: Poetic Adaptations of Nala and Damayantī into a Persian Mas̱navi
This talk has been postponed to a later date in 2022. Please check back for date. Alexandra Hoffman, PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago Nal, one of the protagonists of Abo’l Fayż Fayżi’s (d. 1595 CE) mas̱navi 𝘕𝘢𝘭 𝘰...
Southern Asia Seminar: Becoming Bhojpuri: Cinematic Signs and Embodied Politics in “Regional” Mumbai
Kathryn Hardy, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University In metropolitan Mumbai, politicians have increasingly courted a “regional” Bhojpuri-speaking migrant vote, identified with young men from the North Indian states of Bihar and Uttar...
Discussion with Author Nawaaz Ahmed: Islamophobia, Home, and Belongings in Radiant Fugitives
Moderated by Rashmi Joshi, Associate Director of COSAS and sponsored by Blake Smith, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life...
TAPSA: Vaideśika Deśikas and Other Autobiographical Games: Stagings of the Authorial Self in Prologues of Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita and his Intimate Milieu
Talia Ariav, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago In this talk, Ariav will be reading moments from dramatic prologues by the well known Sanskrit poet Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita and other figures in his related circle of...
No Other World: A Conversation with Author Rahul Mehta
We welcome you to join us for "No Other World: A Conversation with Author Rahul Mehta" on November 2, 2021 at 4:30pm CST, moderated by Rashmi Joshi, Associate Director of COSAS and sponsored by Tyler Williams, Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages &...
