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Event Archive
From Weber to Varāha: Toward an Astrological Hinduism
Public Lecture by Marko Geslani, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina Marko Geslani is a historian of religion specializing in ritual studies and medieval Hinduism. His first book, Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in...
Surā in her Cups: Writing a History of Alcohol and Drugs in Pre-modern South Asia
South Asia Seminar: James McHugh, University of Southern California, Dornsife James McHugh discusses his book project on the history of alcohol in South Asia from the Vedas through the early second millennium CE and beyond. He will give some examples of the ways...
Imperial Infection: An Ecological History of the Third Plague Pandemic in Bombay, India, 1880-1920
TAPSA: Emily Webster, Department of History, University of Chicago The third plague pandemic looms large in the historiography of colonial India. This attention is warranted, given the disproportionate effects of the pandemic: out of a total of 14 million deaths...
“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...