Upcoming Seminars & Talks
Spring 2012
South Asia Seminar and Theory and Practice in South Asia (TAPSA) graduate student workshop, 2011-12
All seminars and talks will take place in the South Asia Commons (Foster Hall room 103) at 4:30 pm unless otherwise noted.
- March 29: TAPSA: Matthew Rich, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Languages of Secrecy and the Secreting of Language Among the Khasi of Northeastern Bangladesh" - April 19: South Asia Seminar: Saymon Zakaria , noted Bengali playwright and Thibaut d'Hubert Dept. of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
TBD - April 23: TAPSA: Asif Farrukhi, prominent Urdu writer and literary critic
"Lahu aur Phul: Themes and Patterns in Contemporary Urdu Literature" - April 26: TAPSA: Sonam Kachru, Divinity School, University of Chicago
"For A Burnt Stone And A Length Of Trouser To Write On: Scenes From The Lives Of Kashmiri Poems In Translation" - May 3: South Asia Seminar: Gregory Savarimuthu, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Kannur University
TBD - May 10: TAPSA: Rumya S. Putcha, Dept. of Music, University of Chicago
"Mythical Courtesans and Modern Wives: Performance and Womanhood in South India" - May 17: South Asia Seminar: A. Azfar Moin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University,
"Shrine Destruction in Iran and Temple Desecration in India: A Framework for Comparison" - May 24: South Asia Seminar: Ritu Birla, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto
"Embeddedness and the Corporate Personality in India: Legal History as Economic History" - May 31: South Asia Seminar: Projit Mukharji, Assistant Professor, Department of History & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
"Nitrogen or Nytrojane? Race, Colonialism and Vernacular Materialities, Bengal c. 1900-30"