Southern Asia at Chicago

Upcoming Seminars & Talks

All Talks will take place in the South Asia Commons (Foster Hall room 103) at 4:30 pm unless otherwise noted

October 1: South Asia Seminar: Richard Eaton, University of Arizona
"Temples and Conquest in the Deccan, 1296-1500"
October 8: South Asia Seminar: David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"'I Am Who I Am': On Being Nostalgic in Sanskrit"
October 15: TAPSA: Benjamin Schonthal, History of Religions, the Divinity School
"The 'Foremost' Place of Buddhism in Sri Lanka: A History"
October 29: South Asia Seminar: Bhavani Raman, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University
"What Is a Record? Tamil Scribes in the Polyglot World of Early Colonial Madras"
November 5: South Asia Seminar: Indira Viswanathan Peterson, David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College
"Invoking Chola and Maratha Pasts in Colonial Thanjavur: King Serfoji II's Reinvention of the Brihadisvara Temple"
November 12: TAPSA: Karin Meyers, Philosophy of Religion, the Divinity School
"Dependent Co-Origination, Liberation and Determinism in Theravada Buddhism"
MONDAY November 16: TAPSA: Amanda Hamilton, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
"East-Indians in the Mofussil: Half-Caste Interlopers or Agrarian Patriots?"
November 19: TAPSA: Sonam Kachru, Philosophy of Religion, the Divinity School
"Pleasure in the Time of Leaves"

January 7: South Asia Seminar: George Pati, Assistant Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University
January 14: TAPSA: Victor D'Avella, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
January 21: South Asia Seminar: Velcheru Narayana Rao, Visiting Professor of Telugu Language and Literature, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
January 28: South Asia Seminar: Michael Dodson, Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University
February 4: TAPSA: Jennifer Dubrow, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Feburary 11: South Asia Seminar: Davesh Soneji, Assistant Professor of South Indian Religions, McGill University
February 18: South Asia Seminar: Farina Mir, Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan
February 25: South Asia Seminar: Lisa Mitchell, Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
MONDAY March 1: South Asia Seminar: Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, All Souls College, University of Oxford
March 4: South Asia Seminar: Kate Brittlebank, Senior Lecturer, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania
March 11: TAPSA: Rajarshi Ghose, Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations

April 1: South Asia Seminar: Robin Jeffrey, Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
MONDAY April 5: South Asia Seminar: Christopher Minkowski, Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford
April 8: South Asia Seminar: Debjani Ganguly, Head, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University
April 15: TAPSA: Siddharth Satpathy, Department of English
April 22: South Asia Seminar: Srimati Basu, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky
April 29: TAPSA: Hajnalka Kovacs, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
May 6: TAPSA: Arnab Dey, Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and History
May 13: TAPSA: Amanda Huffer, History of Religions, the Divinity School
May 20: South Asia Seminar: Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University
May 27: TAPSA: Susan Zakin, History of Religions, the Divinity School
June 3: TAPSA: Rumya P. Chatterjee, Department of Music
June 10: TAPSA: Oscar Figueroa-Castro, Department of Anthropology