Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
Webinar: Preserving Democracy during the Pandemic
A discussion between regional experts about the state of democracy around the world during the Covid-19 pandemic, and how it can be strengthened. Conversation topics might include: In what ways have authoritarian leaders used the pandemic to strengthen their grip...
TAPSA via Zoom: Saving for tomorrow: Coal supply distortions, stockpiling, and power outages in India
Yuvraj Pathak, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy This paper demonstrates how regulatory uncertainty can cause large welfare losses by distorting firms’ incentives and giving rise to inefficient production. Specifically, I analyze...
South Asian Music Ensemble Performance
Please join the South Asian Music Ensemble for an afternoon of music featuring a variety of forms and genres encompassing both North and South Indian classical traditions, including bandish, kriti, tarana, thiruppavai, and tillana. The performance will also...
17th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference: “Reception, Tradition, and Canonization: Pasts and Presents in South Asia”
Keynote Speakers: Rosalind O’Hanlon (University of Oxford) Akshaya Mukul (Independent researcher and journalist) This conference aims to examine traditions in premodern and modern South Asia and seeks to interrogate formations of knowledge about traditions through...
In the Mood for Art and On the Margins of History in India’s Eighteenth Century
Lecture by Dipti Khera, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University Presented by the Department of Art History and COSAS, as part of the 2019/20 Smart Lecture series supported by the Smart Family Foundation. The art of sensing moods mattered in...
Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper
Punjab was the arena of one of the major armed conflicts of post-colonial India. Mallika Kaur’s new book makes an urgent intervention in the history of the conflict, which to date has generally been characterized by a fixation on sensational violence—or ignored...
Worlds of Pleasure: Making Sense Between Place, Painting, Poetry, and Performance
Lecture by Dipti Khera, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University, hosted by COSAS The idea of pleasure as a pivotal tenet of ideal kingship and the practice of pleasure by courtly communities to formulate and deepen personal and political bonds gains...
Everyday Evasions: Space and Strategy in Sex Markets in Colonial India
Lecture by Zoya Sameen, doctoral student of History at University of Chicago, hosted by The Nicholson Center for British Studies and The Newberry Library’s British History Seminar The historiography of prostitution in colonial India has often sidelined the routine...
TAPSA: Letter writing is the mingling of souls not the drawing near of dust: Scholarly epistolography as companionship in eighteenth-century North India
Daniel Morgan, PhD Candidate in SALC, University of Chicago Scholars of Persianate intellectual practices in early-modern South Asia generally argue that authoritative knowledge was “located primarily in persons not books” and that texts were thus transmitted in...