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Event Archive
South Asia Seminar: A New Discovery in the Study of Hindu Law: An Early Unpublished Commentary on the Yājñavalkya Dharmaśāstra
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 David Brick, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan This talk will introduce a rare new addition to the corpus of Dharmaśāstra literature: an early unpublished commentary on the...
2-Day Workshop: Beyond Modernism: The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia
Friday, March 7, 2025 and Saturday, March 8, 2025, 9am-5pm - Swift Common 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637 2-Day Workshop: Beyond Modernism: The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia This workshop seeks to move beyond an East/West axis in exploring the...
2025 South Asia Graduate Student Conference: Theorizing Capitalism in South Asia
Thursday, March 6, 2025 (9am-5pm) and Friday, March 7, 2025 (9am-8pm), Swift Lecture Hall 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637 South Asia exemplifies the contradictions of contemporary capitalism: a rapidly expanding stock market with high return for investors and a...
TAPSA: The Atmospheric Discontent of Make-in-India
Monday, March 3, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103 Ashima Mittal, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago This talk examines the mediation of economic and social interests that are enacted through the framework of “Make-in-India” in, what I call, the...
TAPSA: Unheard Melodies: Entangled Pasts of Modern Bengali Song
Thursday February 27, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Ronit Ghosh, PhD Candidate, Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Music, University of Chicago Departing from existing approaches that study the modern Bengali song exclusively as a literary...
Southern Asia Seminar: Footprints of the Prophet in Mughal India
Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Usman Hamid, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University This talk traces the role of relics associated with the Prophet Muhammad in Muslim devotion and piety in early modern South...
TAPSA: Genomic Histories of the Adivasi and Sinhalese Populations of Sri Lanka
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Jose Antonio Urban Aragon, PhD Candidate, Human Genetics, University of Chicago Sri Lanka, yielding the oldest-yet evidence of Homo sapiens in South Asia (~36,000 years ago), is central to our understanding of the...
Southern Asia Seminar: Reading Unnameable Desires in Contemporary Pakistani Film
Thursday January 23, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Mehak F. Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame This talk explores new developments in contemporary Pakistani film, including the Cannes favorite Joyland (Sadiq, 2022), and Cake...
Inaugural Papiya Ghosh Memorial Lecture: “Gujarat to Delhi: Modi’s Strategies to Win and Retain Power”
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - 5pm, Social Sciences Research Building Room 122 1126 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637 Christophe Jaffrelot, Avantha Chair and Professor, Indian Politics and Sociology, King's India Institute Since his Gujarat years, Narendra Modi relies on...
Southern Asia Seminar: Formations of Feminist Thalaimurai: Intergenerationality, Memory and Care in Tamil Political Life
Thursday February 6, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Anusha Hariharan, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University Based on ethnographic work with feminist collectives in Tamil Nadu, this talk attends to the intermediations...