Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 12:30pm - 2pm, Classics 110 Alpa Shah, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics Alpa Shah will be on campus to talk about her new book, The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India. As the...
Tamil New Year Celebration
Saturday, April 13, 2024 - 1pm, Foster Hall 103 Join UChicago Tamil Vattam as we celebrate Tamil New Year! Poem recitations, traditional performances, cultural mini-documentaries, and Tamil food! Proudly co-hosted by SALC and COSAS
Vivekananda Lecture: Thinking Through Space: A Multilingual Approach to Literary History
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 5pm, International House Assembly Hall Francesca Orsini, Professor Emerita SOAS & Vivekananda Visiting Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago An interest in comparative religion made...
Southern Asia Seminar: Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison In the 1990s, India’s mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy, soft-porn films that emerged in the...
TAPSA: Scattering Pearls: Music, Emotion, and Sociality in the Early Modern Deccan
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Zoë Woodbury High, PhD Candidate, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago This talk examines the social culture of musical performance in the Deccan Sultanate of Bijapur during the reign of...
TAPSA: Rumi’s Masnavi in South Asia: From Manuscript to Print
Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Shariq Khan, PhD Candidate, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago This talk explores the shift from manuscript to print of Rumi's Masnavi in South Asia in the nineteenth century. By paying...
Southern Asia Seminar: Cold War Print Cultures: An Alternative Genealogy of Literary Activism in India
Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Laetitia Zecchini, Director of the IRL 'Humanities' CNRS, University of Chicago This presentation discusses the role played by print – and especially periodical – culture - during the Cold War. “Pressing the Fight”...
Southern Asia Seminar: Screenwriting and the First Indian Talkies: Pedagogy, Precarity and the Parsi Theatre
Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto The arrival of talkies in the early 1930s was an important historical juncture in the aesthetic and economic reformation of Indian...
Prahlad Singh Tipaniya and Kabir Singers
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 4pm, Logan Center for the Arts Penthouse Prahlad Singh Tipaniya is an internationally acclaimed folk singer from the village of Lunyakhedi, Madhya Pradesh. He is renowned for his singing and interpretation of Kabir and other Hindi poets...
TAPSA: Osman: The Prophetic Journey of a Rohingya Refugee Musician
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 5pm, Foster Hall 103 Tomal Hossain, PhD Candidate, Music Department, University of Chicago This TAPSA session will feature a hybrid conversation between Tomal Hossain and Osman Goni, a Rohingya refugee musician based in Kutupalong...