Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
TAPSA talk: “Indian Madrasas and Change: Evolution of the Educational System and Curriculum of the Arabic Program at Dar al-‘Ulum Deoband, 1866 – the Present”
Aamir Bashir, doctoral candidate in Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Modern scholarship on Indian madrasas has often deemed them to be beholden to an outdated curriculum first devised in the 18th century. Despite the...
Screening of Janani’s Juliet, a film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Synopsis: Deeply disturbed by a spate of honor killings in India this documentary sees Indianostrum, a Pondicherry based theatre group, setting out to introspect the implications of caste, class and gender through an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet....
[A Talk with Ambai] Body in Living Spaces: Reading, Writing and Archiving Women
This talk will be about ways of viewing contemporary Tamil literature, the acts of reading, writing and translation and about the need to archive women's history, women's lives and women's expression. The talk will attempt to cover a wide range of experiences from...
The Committee for South Asian Foreign Language Area National Resource Center Studies, 1999-2019
A talk by Irving Birkner, former Associate Director of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies Irving Birkner once sent a faculty member into the field with $10,000 in his sock. He offered a KitchenAid mixer as payment and figured out what to do when an alumnus was...
South Asia Seminar: An Evening with Anand Venkatkrishnan and Sarah P. Taylor
Join us as we kick off this quarter's TAPSAs and South Asia Seminars with a discussion led by Dr. Anand Venkatkrishnan, Assistant Professor, History of Religions, and Sarah Pierce Taylor, Assistant Professor, Literature and Visual Culture, of University of Chicago...
Polemic and Doxography in Haribhadrasūri
TAPSA: Anil Mundra, University of Chicago Divinity School The notion of “polemic” is often used but rarely theorized by scholars of premodern South Asia. Meanwhile, the term “doxography,” originally coined for classical Western philosophical surveys, has gained...
The Middleman
Doc Films Screening: The Middleman 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637
The Emperor and His Attendants: Proximity, Intimacy and Politics in Royal Mughal Households
TAPSA: Emma Kalb, University of Chicago Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations Although most often analyzed in terms of their role in relation to the harem, both in secondary literature and the comparative context, this talk focuses on eunuchs’...
Company Limited
Doc Films Screening: Company Limited 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 - 5:00pm Foster 103
Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote: “The Language of Christians and Christian-Tamil – The Peculiar Journey of the 17th century Śaivite Poet Tāyumāṉavar”
South Asia Seminar and keynote speaker for Chicago Tamil Forum: Srilata Raman, Department of Study of Religion, University of Toronto The 19th century saw intensive missionary activity in the Tamil region of South India. Particularly enduring proved to be the work...