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Remembering McKim Marriott
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 2pm, Swift Common Join us in remembrance of Professor McKim Marriott Welcome remarks: Constantine V. Nakassis (Chair and Professor of Anthropology, the University of Chicago) Remarks and remembrances from: Ralph Nicholas (Professor Emeritus...
Eclectic Geographies of Tamil Music
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Davesh Soneji, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania This talk considers the somatic and sensorial practices of music, dance, and theatre among Tamil-speakers as sources of global...
TAPSA: Standard Differences, Different Standards
Thursday, April 3, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Shubham Shivang, PhD Student, Departments of Anthropology and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago This talk takes up the “problem” of standardization in the North Indian language of Bhojpuri, categorized as a...
South Asia Seminar: A New Discovery in the Study of Hindu Law: An Early Unpublished Commentary on the Yājñavalkya Dharmaśāstra
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 David Brick, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan This talk will introduce a rare new addition to the corpus of Dharmaśāstra literature: an early unpublished commentary on the...
2-Day Workshop: Beyond Modernism: The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia
Friday, March 7, 2025 and Saturday, March 8, 2025, 9am-5pm - Swift Common 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637 2-Day Workshop: Beyond Modernism: The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia This workshop seeks to move beyond an East/West axis in exploring the...
2025 South Asia Graduate Student Conference: Theorizing Capitalism in South Asia
Thursday, March 6, 2025 (9am-5pm) and Friday, March 7, 2025 (9am-8pm), Swift Lecture Hall 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637 South Asia exemplifies the contradictions of contemporary capitalism: a rapidly expanding stock market with high return for investors and a...
TAPSA: The Atmospheric Discontent of Make-in-India
Monday, March 3, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103 Ashima Mittal, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago This talk examines the mediation of economic and social interests that are enacted through the framework of “Make-in-India” in, what I call, the...
TAPSA: Unheard Melodies: Entangled Pasts of Modern Bengali Song
Thursday February 27, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Ronit Ghosh, PhD Candidate, Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Music, University of Chicago Departing from existing approaches that study the modern Bengali song exclusively as a literary...
Southern Asia Seminar: Footprints of the Prophet in Mughal India
Thursday, February 20, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Usman Hamid, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University This talk traces the role of relics associated with the Prophet Muhammad in Muslim devotion and piety in early modern South...
TAPSA: Genomic Histories of the Adivasi and Sinhalese Populations of Sri Lanka
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 5pm, Foster 103 Jose Antonio Urban Aragon, PhD Candidate, Human Genetics, University of Chicago Sri Lanka, yielding the oldest-yet evidence of Homo sapiens in South Asia (~36,000 years ago), is central to our understanding of the...