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“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...
Apur Sansar
Doc Films Screening: Apur Sansar 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637
India in Global Intellectual History
Once approached primarily through a regional and historical focus on Western Europe and North America, intellectual history has in recent years come to adopt an increasingly expansive, global perspective. Scholars have begun to explore the cross-fertilization of...
“A vast sea of slums”: From chawls and “insanitary villages” to zopadpattis in 20th century Bombay
South Asia Seminar: Nikhil Rao, Department of History, Wellesley College Over the course of the middle decades of the 20th century, the category “slum” underwent important changes in large, fast-growing cities like Bombay. From a descriptive term used to...
Pather Panchali
Doc Films Screening: Pather Panchali 7pm & 9:30pm Dates: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 7:00pm Doc films 1212 E 59th St # 3, Chicago, IL 60637
Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
South Asia Seminar: Keya Ganguly, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). I suggest that through...
Embodied Empiricism and the Respectability of Labour at the Madrasa Tibbiya Delhi
TAPSA: Sabrina Datoo, Department of History, University of Chicago This paper elucidates how the mores of the north Indian service-gentry were implicated in the reformation of Avicennian medicine in colonial India. The paper focuses on a single site, the Madrasa...