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Event Archive
TAPSA: Do We Know Anything? Can We Know If We Don’t Know Anything?’: Karmapa VIII Mikyö Dorje’s Madhyamaka Critique of Conventional Ways of Knowing”
Seth Auster-Rosen, PhD Student, Philosophy of Religions, University of Chicago Do We Know Anything? Can We Know If We Don't Know Anything?': Karmapa VIII Mikyö Dorje's Madhyamaka Critique of Conventional Ways of Knowing" In his Praise to Dependent Arising (Rten...
Southern Asia Seminar: Complementarities in Infrastructure: Evidence from Indian Agriculture
Oliver Vanden Eynde, Chaired Professor, Paris School of Economics Complementarities between infrastructure projects have been understudied. This paper examines interactions in the impacts of large-scale road construction, electrification, and mobile phone coverage...
Droṇācāryakusumāñjalī: A Conference in Honor of Gary Tubb
“Skill, care for others’ well-being, humility, patience, forbearance, and an utter lack of selfish greed– such are the splendid fruits of wisdom’s fullest flowering.” -Kshemendra This two-day conference celebrates the learning, the teaching, and the friendship of...
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...
