Upcoming Seminars & Talks
Thursday, April 4
No Seminar
10th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference: The Place of Literature
Thursday, April 11
No Seminar
Thursday, April 18
TAPSA presents: Wafi Momin (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
A Forgotten Episteme: Occult Practices in the Making of the Satpanth Ismaili Tradition
April 25, 2013
TBA
Professor Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society)
Thursday, May 2
TAPSA presents: Abhishek Ghosh (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
TBA
Thursday, May 9
South Asia Seminar Series presents: Professor Karuna Mantena (Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University)
Gandhi and the Hazards of Action
Tuesday May 14
TAPSA presents: Ilanit Schacham (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Bees, Beads and Coals that fly: Realism, Poetic Reality and Imagination in Kṛṣṇadevarāya’s Āmuktamālyada
Thursday, May 16
South Asia Seminar Series presents: Professor Kama McLean (Associate Professor, University of New South Wales (Sydney))
Motilal Nehru and the Revolutionaries: a Clandestine History
Thursday, May 23
TAPSA presents: Atiya Khan (Department of History)
The Pakistan Question and the Left: A Reconsideration of the National Question, 1940-1947
Thursday, May 30
TAPSA presents: Erin Epperson (Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations)
TBA
Thursday, June 6
TAPSA presents: Sonam Kachru (Divinity School)
TBA
TAPSA
The Theory and Practice in South Asia workshop and its associated Graduate Student Conference are important parts of the fabric of intellectual activity in South Asian studies at the University of Chicago. TAPSA talks are scheduled in coordination with the South Asia Seminar, to provide regular interdisciplinary intellectual events, including papers by University of Chicago advanced graduate students, or visiting scholars and faculty. The format of TAPSA talks is a 45-50 minute presentation followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion.