Events
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Event Archive
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...
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...