Seminars

South Asia

Year Founded 1964

Seminar # 477

StatusActive

The University Seminar on South Asia seeks to broaden and deepen understanding about the region of South Asia by providing a forum to discuss ongoing research as well as special topics related to the complex and multiple societies of South Asia both past and present. Drawing together scholars from many different disciplines, the seminar fosters cross-disciplinary discussion and perspectives on a broad range of questions and concerns. In recent years, the seminar has deliberated on such issues as: religion and politics, the political function of violence in South Asia, national integration, language and community, South Asian identities in pre-colonial times, religious iconography, and many other topics. The University Seminar on South Asia is a merger of the University Seminar on Tradition and Change in South and Southeast Asia (founded in 1964) and the University Seminar on Indology (founded in 1993).

Chair/s

Rapporteur/s

Saila Sri Kambhatla

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

11
Nov

November 11, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

Regimes of the Monsoons in the Indian Ocean World at the Onset of the Early Modern Times : Transactions, Travels and Trajectories of Polities (c 1000-1650 CE)

Speaker/s

Ranabir Chakravarti, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Scheduled

02
Dec

December 2, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Nikhil Pandhi, Princeton University

Scheduled

03
Feb

February 3, 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University

Richard Davis, Bard College

Scheduled

24
Mar

March 24, 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Anand Vivek Taneja, Vanderbilt University

Scheduled

21
Apr

April 21, 20256:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Sohini Pillai, Kalamazoo College

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

14
Oct

October 14, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

Out From Under the Shadow of Devgiri
Recovering Hidden Histories of Legal Alterity, Caste, Religion, and Political Economy in the Western Deccan

Speaker/s

Jason Schwartz, Stanford University

Scheduled

14
Oct

October 14, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

TBA

Speaker/s

Jason Schwartz, Stanford University

Scheduled

01
Apr

April 1, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Faculty House

Eternally Lifting Mount Govardhan

Speaker/s

Jack Hawley, Columbia University

Scheduled

04
Mar

March 4, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Faculty House

The God of Death: Yama in Company Paintings From Southern India

Speaker/s

Subhashini Kaligotla, Columbia University

Scheduled

12
Feb

February 12, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

22
Jan

January 22, 20246:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Faculty House

Bearing the Burden of History: Religion, Race, and Caste in the Indo-Caribbean Disapora

Speaker/s

Gaurika Mehta, Columbia University

Scheduled

23
Oct

October 23, 20236:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Faculty House

From Man to Woman: The Trans Self as Moral Exemplar in Bengali Public Life

Speaker/s

Katherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University

Baishakhi Taylor, Columbia University

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