Events

The Mass Culture Workshop is pleased to welcome Jenisha Borah, PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago. Lunch will be served. For more information, please email either Sophie (sophielynch@uchicago.edu) or Tanya (tanyad@uchicago.edu). Dates:...

Please join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop, in conjunction with the Empires and Atlantics Forum and the Nicholson Center for British Studies next Friday, February 21 at 4:30 PM as we welcome Prof. Seth Koven, G.E. Lessing Distinguished...

The colonial desire to continue while reforming the pre-existing practices of civil law in British India, so as to govern according to “native” legal customs, was the original driver of the creation of modern Indology. As the British legal and scholarly...

Public lecture by John Holt, Visiting Professor of Buddhism. Why have Buddhist and Muslim communities in these three countries, after sharing centuries of largely amicable relations, found themselves recently enmeshed in conditions of inter-communal tension,...

Tariq Thachil, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University. This lecture is hosted by the Department of Political Science and COSAS. Scholars of urban politics in India have yet to systematically understand how party leaders select the rank-and-file ‘brokers’,...

Venue: Franke Institute for the Humanities, Room S-102, Regenstein Library, open to all members of the University community The domain of śāstra – disciplined, textualized systematic thought, composed in Sanskrit and other languages – forms premodern southern...