Events
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Event Archive
TAPSA: Witchcraft, Spells and Bewilderment: Literary Adaptation and Magic in ʿĀqil Khān Rāzī’s Mihr-u Māh
Victor Baptiste PhD Student, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris The life and work of ʿĀqil Khān Rāzī (1026?-1108 AH, 1617?-1696 AD) have received little attention outside of Urdu research and literary critique. His literary achievements were, however, highly...
Southern Asia Seminar: Rewriting Muslim Histories: 1948 Police Action and the Case of Hyderabad
Afsar Mohammad Senior Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania This talk is about the making of an alternative history of 1948 Police Action in Hyderabad. Despite an unprecedented violence and trauma, the history...
TAPSA: Vishnuite “garlands of devotees” and Persian as a language of bhakti
Jean Arzoumanov Rocher Fellow, The University of Chicago Between 1770 and 1850, a number of Vishnuite hagiographies were written in Persian and Urdu, often under the name of Bhagat māl ("Garland of devotees"). Although it has been largely unnoticed, the Persian...
Southern Asia Seminar: Sukanya Sarbadhikary, Assistant Professor, Presidency University, Kolkata, & Upal Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, Presidency University, Kolkata
The seminar time will be split between the two speakers. Professor Sarbadhikary "J. C. Bose’s hand-machines: Instrumentation as the transcendence of limits in Presidency College" Jagadish Chandra Bose’s intellectual novelty is much-discussed, as is the severely...
Southern Asia Seminar: Awakening the largest digital library of Buddhist manuscripts to AI: The Buddhist Digital Resource Center and the future of preservation and access
Jann Ronnis Executive Director, Buddhist Digital Resource Center This will be a story about the Dharma’s newest skillful means: computer vision, machine translation, linked data, and other 21st century technologies. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center in Boston is...
TAPSA: The Garb of Modernity”: The NRI Gaze and the Indian Developmental State
Nisarg Mehta PhD Candidate, Sociology This talk explores the nature of the bi-directional relationship between the Indian State and the Indian diaspora. First, I explicate the post-colonial State’s attitudes towards its diaspora in comparative perspective and...
Southern Asia Seminar: Describing India – People’s Movements and Knowledge Production
Ganesh N. Devy Obaid Siddiqi Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, and Professor of Eminence at the Somaiya University, Bombay The lecture will outline three democratic popular movements...
Southern Asia Seminar: Explaining Variation of Colonial Narratives in Postcolonial States: Denunciation and Valorization in Southeast Asia
Dean Dulay Assistant Professor, Singapore Mangement University Research on the negative impacts of colonialism is well-established across the social sciences. In spite of this, considerable variation exists in how postcolonial states situate their colonial...
Mughal Rule to the Raj: The Imperial Transition in South Asia Workshop
A workshop on the imperial transition in South Asia from Mughal rule to the British Raj. For more information, visit the website, voices.uchicago.edu/mughals-to-raj. Tiraana Bains - Dartmouth College Felicia Gottmann - Northumbria University Anirban Karak - New...
Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote: Rhetorical Modes and Emotional Formation in an Old Tamil Anthology
Professor Martha Ann Selby, Sangam Tamil Chair in the Department of South Asia Studies at Harvard University In this talk, I will explore how poetic convention dictates expressions of grief and sorrow in love, while providing examples of poems in which literary...