Events
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Event Archive
“Visual Amplification and the Remaking of Alandi’s Sacred Skyline”
South Asia Seminar: Anna Schultz, Department of Music, University of Chicago Every year, hundreds of thousands of varkaris travel to Alandi to visit Sant Dnyaneshwar’s samadhi and listen to devotional songs. For several decades, these songs have been sonically...
Measuring Futures: Expertise and Postcolonial Politics in Asia
Measuring Futures will comparatively examine the rise and impact of postwar data and planning sciences on development policies, democratic change and political infrastructures in a number of Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia....
Regional Societies and Frames of Memory in British India: East, West and North
South Asia Seminar: Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin Social memory is defined by its public and societally monitored character. It is made and reproduced within a framework of social and political relations that create and bound a community of thought. I...
The Founding of Bhutan in the Context of Tibet’s Seventeenth Century
TAPSA: Jetsun Deleplanque, Divinity School This paper focuses on the theoretical foundations of the Bhutanese state founded by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594-1651) in the seventeenth century by paying attention to larger political developments taking place on the...
Book Launch and Reading: The Tale of the Missing Man
Join Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark for their reading of their English translation of Manzoor Ahtesham's The Tale of the Missing Man, published by Northwestern University Press, and winner of the inaugural Global Humanities Translation Prize. Dates: Friday,...
Buddhism, Thought, and Civilization: A Memorial Symposium for Steven Collins
Thursday: Swift Lecture Hall, 2:45pm-7pm Friday: Franke Institute, 8:30am-1:30pm; Foster Hall 103, 3pm Please see the uchicago voices event page for a schedule and other details. Dates: Thursday, November 15, 2018 (All day) to Friday, November 16, 2018 (All day)
South Asia Seminar: Charlie Hallisey, Harvard Divinity School
South Asia Seminar: Charlie Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School Keynote speaker for Buddhism, Thought, and Civilization: A Memorial Symposium for Steven Collins Dates: Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 5:00pm Foster...
The Celebration and Preservation of Urdu: A Talk by Sanjiv Saraf
Lunch in honor of Sanjiv Saraf, the main inspiration behind the Urdu festival, Jashn-e-Rekhta. Organized and hosted by Muzaffar Alam, Dipesh Charkabarty, and Elena Bashir. Dates: Friday, November 9, 2018 - 12:30pm Foster 103
An Archaeology of the Virtues: Conversion and the History of the Khanzada of Mewat
TAPSA: Mudit Trivedi, doctoral candidate in Anthropology A short distance south of Delhi, nestled in the Mewat hills are the remains of the fort-city of Indor. This city was founded in the fourteenth century CE by a lineage who came to call themselves the Khanzada...
Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Partition of Bengal: A Language of Unity, a Language of Loss
TAPSA: Ahona Panda, doctoral candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations Arguably the most successful poet and music composer appealing to both Hindus and Muslims equally in undivided and divided Bengal, Kazi Nazrul Islam was the singular voice of an...