Events
Upcoming Events
All COSAS events are free and open to the public.
Event Archive
Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop 2022
GLAS is an informal academic organization that provides a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order...
Nazarband: A Film Screening and Discussion with Director Suman Mukhopadhyay
Vasanti and Chandu, the unlikely pair of two jailbirds embark on a harrowing journey and unpredictable odyssey drifting across the intimidating terrain of Kolkata. Nazarband is a visceral look at survival and a heartfelt exploration into the depths of companionship...
Southern Asia Seminar: In conversation with Jason Grunebaum, instructional professor, SALC and Annie Janusch, Lecturer, Creative Writing
Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Winner, Translator of Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand Daisy Rockwell is a painter and translator of Hindi and Urdu literature. An alum of The College at University of Chicago, she also has a PhD from SALC. She has published...
CISSR Michele Friedner Book Launch for “Sensory Futures”
Join CISSR to discuss and celebrate the book release of Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India by Michele Friedner (Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development) who will speak with Jennifer Iverson (Associate Professor of...
TAPSA: Studying Old Grammar
Jo Brill, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago What can we learn by studying the Sanskrit grammatical tradition through the lens of a scholarly community that flourished in Pune in the second part of the twentieth...
Chicago Tamil Forum Keynote: Decolonizing Linguistics from South Asia: Practices in Search of a Theory
Chicago Tamil Forum: Social Meeting and Pragmatics in Tamil Discourse Keynote Lecture: Suresh Canagarajah (Pennsylvania State University) This presentation will draw from communicative practices in South Asia to outline their differences from dominant...
Lunchtime Lyrics: A Celebration of South Asian Poetry in Translation
Lunchtime Lyrics: A Celebration of South Asian Poetry in Translation Francesca Chubb-Confer, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago ...
Southern Asia Seminar: The Poetics of Hindutva
HYBRID EVENT Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley V.D. Savarkar, the principal ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism and author of “Essentials of Hindutva” -- the de facto manifesto of the Hindu right -- thought of himself as a poet...
TAPSA: Tell Me That Tale: Genre and Translation in Theghnāth’s Gītā Bhāṣā
Akshara Ravishankar Parmeswaram, PhD Candidate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago Much scholarship on the Gītā’s premodern life has tended to focus on its early textual past, and its extraordinary role as a philosophical and...