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Esoteric Theravada Meditation: Corruption or Abhidhamma?
Kate Crosby, King’s College London Abstract: This talk will examine the esoteric meditation that dominated much of the Theravada world before the modern period. It will examine features that have seemed heterodox, and gained it a reputation as a corrupt form of...
Faith, War, and Belonging: A Conversation with Poet Tarfia Faizullah
Introduction by Tahera Qutbuddin, Q&A moderated by Rashmi Joshi & Lauren Doan Register in advance for this event: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMofu6srD0iGtWqKECv6H5Bfbwba6bkPtCw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email...
South Asia Seminar: Governing a Racial Order: Dissimulation, Extraction, Politics
Rupa Viswanath, Professor of Indian Religions at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Modern democratic governments must ensure the regular reproduction of capital for their survival, an end which as such entails the regulation of labour. While mainstream scholars of...
Beyond Boundaries and Within: An Exploration of Manipuri Classical Dance with Bimbavati Devi
Introduced by Professor Anna Schultz; Moderated by Supurna Dasgupta, doctoral student in South Asian Languages and Civilizations (10am Chicago time, 8:30pm Delhi time) Tucked away in the Northeastern hills of the Indian subcontinent, Manipur is a land throbbing...
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife
Please join the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality on 29th October 2020 from 4pm to 5pm (Central Time) for a book salon discussion of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (UMich, 2020) featuring: Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor...
TAPSA: Divide and Rule? Separating Wheat From Chaff in Colonial South Asia
Fahad Sajid, doctoral candidate in Political Science Although divide-and-rule is widely believed to have been an important strategy of colonial control, I argue that the evidence for this popular thesis is mixed at best for British India. Drawing on a range of...
TAPSA: Many Tongues, Many Voices: The Multilingual World of the Indian Press (1900–1915)
Sanjukta Poddar, doctoral candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Allahabad emerged as a significant site of efflorescence in print culture. The city’s most prolific publishing house during this period,...
“since feeling is first:” Hedonic Tone (_Vedanā_) in the Meditation Practice of S. N. Goenka
Erik Braun, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of Virginia Erik Braun co-edited with David McMahan the volume "Buddhism, Meditation, and Science" (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is the author of "The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern...
Chicago Dialogues: Episode 2 – The Near in Blood
History is replete with the unfulfilled promise of princes cut down in their prime. The Mughal Empire is no exception. This episode traces the life and times of the crown prince, Dara Shukoh, his prodigious talent as a chronicler, poet, philosopher and connoisseur...
Chicago Tamil Forum: Tamil Images
Makeup date for Spring 2020 forum Participants include: Swarnavel Eswaran, Lalitha Gopalan, Zoé Headley, Lisa Owen, Indira Peterson, and Anna Seastrand. More information can be found...