Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
Discussion of Political Dynamics in Contemporary South Asia
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12pm, Foster Hall 103 Paul Staniland, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago For students and faculty interested in contemporary politics in South Asia, Professor Paul Staniland will moderate a brown...
South Asia Seminar: From the American Southwest to India’s Deccan Plateau: John M. Fritz at Hampi Vijayanagara
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 George Michell, Founder-Trustee, Deccan Heritage Foundation Trained at the University of Chicago as an anthropologist with a special interest in prehistoric Native American sites in New Mexico and Arizona, the late Dr....
TAPSA: Organizing Mistrust: How India’s Leaders Navigate Bureaucratic Resistance on Foreign Policy
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 Emily Tallo, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Bureaucratic competencies—technical and regional expertise, specialized skills, information provision, and institutional knowledge and...
The Right to Health: Sex Workers and the LGBTQ+ Community in India and Uganda
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 12:15pm, The University of Chicago Law School 1111 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 Anand Grover, Director, HIV/AIDS Unit, Lawyer’s Collective India Anand Grover, one of India's leading human rights litigators, will reflect on the...
South Asian Seminar: Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor, English Department, Yale This talk will concern the author's recent monograph, Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. The book explores how...
Discussion with Kshama Sawant
Friday, May 10, 2024 - 2:30pm, KPTC 103 Kersten Physics Teaching Center 5720 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 Kshama Sawant is an Indian-American politician and economist who served on the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. We will discuss how and why Kshama's...
Comparative Politics Workshop: Democratic Dissent Amid Democratic Erosion in Contemporary India
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 - 3:30pm - 4:50pm, Pick Hall 506 Amrita Basu, Professor, Political Science and Sexuality, Women’s & Gender Studies, Amherst College This talk will compare the two most significant protest movements against the Modi-led Hindu nationalist...
Coming out as Dalit: Book Talk with Yashica Dutt
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 7pm, Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St. Chicago, IL 60608 Join us for a celebration of Yashica Dutt’s new book, Coming Out as Dalit! Yashica Dutt herself will be in conversation with Soumya Rachel Shailendra (Phd Candidate, Comparative...
Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote Lecture: Urban Hindu Nadars, Disjunctive Identities, and the Class-Caste Nexus
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 5pm, Foster 103 The 2024 Chicago Tamil Forum welcomes keynote speaker, Sara Dickey! Join us as Dr. Sara Dickey (Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Bowdoin College) gives her keynote lecture, “Urban Hindu Nadars, Disjunctive...
Echoes from the Bengal Tiger: Archival Excavations of Musical Life in Early South Asian America
Thursday, March 2, 2024 - 5pm - 6:30pm, J264 - The Joseph Regenstein Library Join us for a talk by Dr. Samuel B. Cushman, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Music, SUNY Onondaga Community College. Based on Cushman’s recent dissertation, From Calcutta to the Bengal...