Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
TAPSA: Vulnerability, Victimhood, and Trauma in the Hindu Nationalist Movement, 1820-2022
Maya Nandakumar PhD Student, Political Science This talk traces transformations in the language of vulnerability, victimhood, and collective trauma across four phases of Hindu nationalist thought from 1820 to 2022. Since the BJP’s rise to power in 2014,...
The Guerrilla Fighter: Mrinal Sen and the Legacies of Radical Cinema
Screenings Thursday and Friday, November 16-17 Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts 201 Conference Saturday, November 18 Cobb Hall 307 We celebrate Mrinal Sen's birth centenary and his legacy on radical artistic practice with screenings of Bhuvan...
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...