Past Events
SAST Colloquium: J. Barton Scott
The Negro Our Aryan Brother: Race, Caste, and Hindu Cosmo-Nationalism in the Transcolonial 1920s
402 Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street
J. Barton Scott, Professor, University of Toronto
SAST Colloquium: Charu Singh
Epistemological Change: Sastra, Vijnana, and the Categories of Knowledge in Early Twentieth Century Northern India
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Dr. Charu Singh is Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences, University of Cambridge.
SAST Colloquium: Emma Kalb
Ambivalent Intimacies: Eunuch Lives in Mughal South Asia
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Emma Kalb, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
SAST Colloquium: Professor Anand Venkatkrishnan
"Black and Brown in Babylon: Alice Coltrane's Turiyasangitananda's Divine Revelations"
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S.36th Street
Professor Anand Venkatkrishnan is Assistant Professor of the History of Religion in South Asia, University of Chicago.
SAST Colloquium: Professor Nabanjan Maitra
The Rite to Know: Vedic Subjects and Monastic Power in 14th Century Karnataka
402 Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street
My talk attends to one aspect of a broader project to make sense of a hermeneutic project of self-professed universal scope: the commentary on the Vedas undertaken by the matha (monastery) of Śṛṅgeri in the latter half of the 14th century, with the support of the Sangama kings of…
