Events
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All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
TAPSA: The Normless City: Moral Anxiety and the Question of Norms in Early Nineteenth Century Kolkata
Thomas Newbold, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and History, The University of Chicago In 1822 the Sanskrit satirical play Hāsyārṇava (Ocean of Laughter) was first printed at Calcutta, accompanied by a Bengali verse translation. In the...
In Conversation with Snigdha Poonam: How India is Failing its Youth
Introduction by Anjali Adukia, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy and moderated by Jesse Orr, masters student at the Harris School of Public Policy Zoom links will be emailed to the listserv. Please emailed rashmij@uchicago.edu if you would like to...
The Cinema of Govindan Aravindan
In this lecture presentation Amarnath Praful will introduce the cinematic oeuvre of the Malayali filmmaker Govindan Aravindan (1935 -1991) who lived and worked in Kerala, India. G. Aravindan was considered one of the most influential filmmakers in India and was a...
South Asia Seminar: Collecting and Displaying Jain Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Nick Barnard, Curator, South and Southeast Asia Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK The Jain religion has produced a distinctive art tradition of great antiquity and cultural significance. Over two centuries the Victoria and Albert Museum in London...
TAPSA: Naxalbari, Nemu Singha and the Indo-Nepal borderlands: a cross-border life-history
Abhishek Bhattacharyya, PhD Candidate in Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago This essay focuses on the memories of former company children who have now become adults. I argue that taking my interlocutors’ memories as...
In Concert and Conversation with Arivu
Arivu is a rapper, singer, lyricist, thinker, and social justice activist from Tamil Nadu. His career was sparked by his involvement with Casteless Collective, a band which combines a range of musical genres like Gaana, Oppari, rap, jazz, and rock to deliver a...
South Asia Seminar: The never-ending test: a Jain tradition of narrative adaptation
Heleen De Jonckheere, Postdoctoral Fellow, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago Repetition, reconfiguration and recreation form important characteristics of Indian literary traditions. In this talk, based on my recent Ph.D....
TAPSA: In Search of Anti-Discipline: Rethinking Law and Prostitution in Colonial India
Zoya Sameen, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago Historians of modern South Asia have substantively engaged with colonial regulatory approaches to governing prostitution. Many insightful studies have understood laws that criminalized a wide array of...
Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Xuefei Ren Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous...
Brāhmī Script Workshop
This workshop, conducted by Andrew Ollett and Julie Hanlon, is intended to introduce the Brāhmī script to those who have no prior experience with it. We will have three series of interactive sessions offering a combination of lecture, translation of sample...
