Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
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
A Meeting of Two Seas: 3.0 Migration Stories
Following the groundbreaking performances of music of South Asia offered these past two years at Rockefeller Chapel by a coalition of Hindu and Muslim students working to create a "meeting of two seas," this year's concert takes a new direction: celebrating the...
Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty
TAPSA: Nazmul Sultan, University of Chicago Department of Political Science This paper explores Indian anticolonial federalist attempts to theorize popular sovereignty against the grain of its traditional attachment to a concept of one-and-undivided peoplehood....
“Popular Islam in South Asian Visual Culture,” lecture by renowned filmmaker Yousuf Saeed
Among the vibrant examples of public art found in Indian towns and villages, the most popular are religious posters and calendars depicting deities, saints, and places of worship. Besides iconography of Hindu deities, a large number of Islamic posters portraying...
Syllable Scrambling in Dhivehi Poetry of the Maldives
South Asia Seminar: Garrett Field, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and School of Music, Ohio University The official language of the Maldives is Dhivehi, an Indo-Aryan language. Prior to the twentieth century the most popular form of Dhivehi poetry was known as...