South Asia at Chicago News and Events

Except when otherwise noted, seminars take place at 4:30pm on Thursday afternoons in Foster Hall Room 103, on the University of Chicago campus. South Asia Seminars are open to the public; please join us!

For details and updates regarding these talks, our Theory and Practice in South Asia (TAPSA) student forum, and other events, please see our
South Asian Studies Events Calendar.

September 27, 2007 : S.R. Walimbe, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute
----Audio: "Demography of Ancient South Asian Populations"
October 4, 2007 : A Conversation with the 4th International Classical Tamil Poetics Workshop, featuring Jean-Luc Chevillard (French National Center for Scientific Research), Thomas Lehmann (University of Heidelberg), Ulrike Niklas (University of Cologne), Takanobu Takahashi (University of Tokyo), and Eva Wilden (University of Kassel)
October 18, 2007 : Muraleedharan Tharayil, University of Calicut
----Audio: "National Interests, Regional Concerns: Historicizing Malayalam Cinema"
October 30, 2007 : Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University
----Video/Audio: "The Talibanization of South Asia: Can It Be Stopped?"
November 15, 2007 : Christopher Pinney, Northwestern University
January 10, 2008 : Durba Ghosh, Cornell University
January 24, 2008 : Craig Jeffrey, University of Washington
February 7, 2008 : Leslie Orr, Concordia University
February 21, 2008 : Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi
March 6, 2008 : Monica Juneja, University of Halle
March 13, 2008 : Margrit Pernau, University of Bielefeld
April 11-12, 2008 : 5th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference
April 17, 2008 : Robin Jeffrey, Australian National University
May 1, 2008 : Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania
May 15, 2008 : Suhas Palshikar, University of Pune