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Event Archive
Jashn-i ‘Alam: A Celebration of Muzaffar Alam and his Scholarship
Thursday, May 29, 2025 10:00am - 6:30pm - Friday, May 30, 2025 9:00am - 5:00pm, Foster 103 Muzaffar Alam (Emeritus, George V. Bobrinsky Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations) is widely recognized as one of the most influential contemporary scholars...
2025 Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote: Extimacy and Intimacy: Caste and Ethnicity in Sri Lanka and South India
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University Thiranagama draws upon Lacan’s notion of the “extimate,” understood as the other in the heart of the intimate, first to describe how...
Literary Progressivism in Tamil South Asia, c. 1940-1970
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 11:30am - 1pm, Foster 103 Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Punjab Progressivism in art and literature emerged...
TAPSA: Tremors of Freedom: Hydroelectricity and the Reverberations of Self-Determination in Western India
Thursday, May 1, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Sachaet Pandey, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago Over the course of the 20th century, a large hydroelectric grid took shape in the rain-drenched mountains that cut across Western India. Storing...
The Legacy of Avicennism in Nineteenth-Century South Asia
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 4:30pm, Stuart 104 Asad Q. Ahmed, The Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley This...
Country Music as Theory: Intersections & Implications for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday - Saturday, April 25 - 26, 2025 - 9am - 5:30pm both days, The Franke Institute for the Humanities Join Anna Schultz (UChicago), Sumanth Gopinath (U of Minnesota), and Fiona Boyd (UChicago) for Country Music as Theory—a two-day conference from April 25-26...
Swara Sudha: Celebrating Rama Navami
Friday, April 25, 2025 - 6pm - 8:30pm, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Welcome to Swara Sudha: Celebrating Rama Navami! Join us for a vibrant celebration at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, featuring veena maestro Ramana Balachandhran, vid. Akshay Anantapadmanabhan on...
South Asia Seminar: Pūrṇavarman’s Prints: Sanskrit Epigraphy as Indigenous Practice in Early West Java
Thursday, April 24, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Elizabeth A. Cecil, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Florida State University The earliest surviving Sanskrit inscriptions from Java, sponsored by the fifth-century ruler Pūrṇavarman, embed royal authority in...
South Asia Seminar and Ethnoise Talk: Kathak Storytelling and Transformation in Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - 4:30pm, The Joseph Regenstein Library 270 Sarah Morelli, Professor and Chair, Departments of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Denver Kathak’s storytelling tradition enables dancers to embody multiple, often contrasting...
Graduate Commons presents: Language Tables
Monday, April 21, 2025 – 5:30pm – 7:00pm, International House Assembly Room 1414 E 59th St Chicago, IL 60637 Join us for an engaging language learning experience. Practice or learn a new language through fun conversations and exciting activities. This event is...