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TAPSA: Nightingales and Falcons: Iqbal’s Ghazals Between Persian and Urdu
Francesca Chubb-Confer, PhD (UChicago Divinity School) The poetry of the Islamic reformer, philosopher, and poet Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), commonly remembered as the spiritual originator of Pakistan and of the 20th century's finest Urdu poets, incorporates a...
South Asia Seminar: Durba Mitra
South Asia Seminar: Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University Register in advance for this meeting: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdOuvqjwoHN0r0txkGLaujTTgaCh3WNQ5 After registering, you will...
Girls Burn Brighter: a Reading and Discussion with Author Shobha Rao
Join us for a reading and Q and A session with young adult novelist Shobha Rao, author of Girls Burn Brighter. Rao, who was born in Kanpur to a family from the weaver caste of the Andhra town, Mangalagiri, has said, "I grew up observing the lives of women around...
TAPSA: The Federal Turn: Political and Legal Thought in Interwar India
Sarath Pillai, doctoral candidate of Department of History This paper examines the shift in Indian political and legal thought from unitary state system (singular sovereignty) to federal state system (shared sovereignty) in the late 1920s. It argues that this shift...
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...