Events
Upcoming Events
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Event Archive
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...
The Adversary
Doc Films Screening: The Adversary 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637)
Chicago Folklore Ensemble Performance
12 songs from Tagore's Gitanjali, featuring violin, sitar, cello, accordion, singer Subhajit Sengupta and narrator Swarnali Banerjee. Dates: Sunday, May 19, 2019 (All day) International House
“Your New Home”: Wedding Songs, Gender and Sensorial Memory in an Indian Jewish Community
Dates: Friday, May 17, 2019 - 12:00pm Regenstein Library, Room A11
The People Follow the Faith of the Ruler: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Late Mughal Delhi
South Asia Seminar: Abhishek Kaicker, Department of History, UC Berkeley A long-held preconception in the study of premodern South Asia has been that ordinary people were the passive objects of imperial sovereignty. By contrast, this talk will make the case that by...
The People Follow the Faith of the Ruler: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Late Mughal Delhi
South Asia Seminar: Abhishek Kaicker, Department of History, UC Berkeley A long-held preconception in the study of premodern South Asia has been that ordinary people were the passive objects of imperial sovereignty. By contrast, this talk will make the case that by...
Days and Nights in the Forest
Doc Films Screening: Days and Nights in the Forest 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637