South Asia StudiesThe South Asia Studies Department and the South Asia Center are pleased to announce the following schedule of Spring 2016 Colloquium events.
Please mark your calendars. All talks will be held on Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:30 PM, in the Class of '55 Room of Van Pelt Library (on the 2nd floor of the library), unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments will be served beginning at 4 PM.
January 27*: “The Buddha's Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia”
Johan Elverskog, Department of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University
*This talk is part of the South Asia Center's Affiliated Faculty Reception Series.
February 24: “Provincializing God: Hindu Arguments Against the Existence of Īśvara”
Andrew Nicholson, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University
March 16*: “Muslim Ethics Literature in Late-Colonial India: Writing under the Sign of 'Akhlaq'”
Farina Mir, Department of History, University of Michigan
*This talk is part of the South Asia Center's Affiliated Faculty Reception Series.
March 23: “A Clouded Mirror: The Uttarakāṇḍa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa as a Treatise on Kingship”
Robert Goldman, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
April 20: “Monastic Governmentality and Portfolio Capital: 18th-early 19th century Eastern India”
Indrani Chatterjee, History Department, University of Texas at Austin
For the full schedule of South Asia events on campus, please visithttps://www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu/events