Past Events
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…
Listening to the Sarangi in a House of Music by Dr. Suhail Yusuf Khan
Harold Prince Theatre (Penn Live Arts)
3680 Walnut Street
Dr. Suhail Yusuf Khan earned his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 2024. He is a renowned hereditary musician of the Sarangi, a traditional North Indian bowed instrument, and the first Ph.D. recipient from the Mirasi community of underrepresented musicians from…
SAST Colloquium: Isabel Huacuja Alonso
402 Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
