Events
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Event Archive
“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...
The Modern Spirit of Asia: Comparing Indian and Chinese Spiritual Nationalism
Annual Vivekananda Lecture by Professor Peter van der Veer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Peter van der Veer is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen...
UChicago Presents: Rahim AlHaj
Sunday, May 5: Rahim AlHaj (location: Logan Center) • 2 pm – pre-concert lecture with Rahim AlHaj and Philip Bohlman • 3 pm – Rahim AlHaj performance: “Letters from Iraq” • Post-concert reception Monday, May 6: continued performances by Rahim AlHaj • Two school...
“The Sun in the Belly: Indian Artist-Bureaucrat S.N.S. Sastry”
One of the key figures of documentary and short film practice in India, S.N.S. Sastry was a bureaucrat making state-sponsored films for the Indian government’s Films Division. Most government films were considered boring, but Sastry developed a nervous, flashy, and...
Mollywood at the Borderlands: A Song of South Indian Solidarity with Latinidad
According to the 12th-century BCE Rig Veda, sound and image were shaped from the materials of the earth and woven across the cosmos like the sounds and patterns of the weaver’s shuttle. In this cosmic image, the generative force that forms the intelligible world...
Technologies of Sexuality in Tibetan Buddhism
South Asia Seminar: Sarah Jacoby, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University In the past year, sex abuse allegations have scandalized some of the most prominent global Tibetan Buddhist communities, raising pressing questions about the role of...
The Big City
Doc Films Screening: The Big City 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637