Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
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
“Tala Chakra,” the South Asian Music Ensemble’s annual Spring recital
Join us for “Tala Chakra,” the South Asian Music Ensemble’s annual Spring recital. The South Asian Music Ensemble explores a variety of song traditions and instrumental performance styles from the Indian Subcontinent, including classical, vernacular, and popular...
Discussion of Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to Our Times
Discussion with author Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi Author of more than a dozen books, Rajmohan Gandhi is a historian and biographer involved also in efforts of trust-building and reconciliation. Professor until end-2012 with the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern...
The Mahābhārata in Double Vision
TAPSA: Nell Hawley, University of Chicago Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations The weight of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata exerts a kind of gravitational pull on South Asian literature. Retellings of the Mahābhārata fill South Asia’s languages and...