“Film Screening: Sama in the Forest” with Coralynn Davis
Film Screening: Sama in the Forest Sama in the Forest delves into the subversive role women’s folktales can play in a patriarchal society. The film is set in Madhubani, a district in India’s state of Bihar, where a rich cultural identity extends from the mythical past into a globalized present. Maithil identity is passed on
“Seeing Like a Mangrove: Gender, Indigineity, and Mumbai’s Environmental Borderland” with Aparna Parikh
“‘We are bored of eating bread and coffee’: Unintended travel narratives of Indian soldiers in WWI” with Alaka Chudal
Soldiers from South Asia —India (before Partition) and Nepal— fighting in the First World War for the British travelled to the battlefields of Europe during 1914 and 1915. A large number of them were captured and imprisoned in Germany in early 1915. In the same year, the Royal Prussian Phonetic Commission in Berlin was established
“Making Sense of Multiples: Literary Rebirth in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata” with Nell Hawley
Many works on the great Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata invoke the famous axiom of the linguist, folklorist, and poet A.K. Ramanujan: “No Hindu ever reads the Mahābhārata for the first time.” Yet Ramanujan’s axiom is rarely explored with the critical interest that such a foundational claim deserves. I offer my talk as a response, addendum, and
The Sawyer Seminar Series: Birthing the Nation presents a Hybrid Research Seminar: Sikata Banerjee
“Martial Man/Chaste Woman: Gendering the Nation” Observing contemporary global politics it seems to me that the concept of muscular nationalism is internationally applicable and will help us make sense of what is happening in the world. The project will draw on secondary literature, cultural expressions from diverse cultural contexts encompassing film and social media, and
“The Quest for the Plant Script” with Sumana Roy
Why have our writers, artists, thinkers and scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Beginning from Jagadish Chandra Bose’s ‘torulipi’ – literally the plant script, through which he hoped plants would write their autobiography – and moving through Rabindranath Tagore’s songs about the ‘language of
“Cruising Masculinity: Immanent Affect in Post Partition Short Stories” with Amrita De
The South Asian Speaker Series presents Amrita De (Penn State) on “Cruising Masculinity: Immanent Affect in Post Partition Short Stories”
“Intimate Eating: Food in Asian America” with Anita Mannur
The South Asian Studies Speaker Series (SASSS) hosts Anita Mannur (Miami University) presenting “Intimate Eating: Food in Asian America.”
“Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia” with Divya Cherian
The South Asian Studies Speaker Series (SASSS) hosts Divya Cherian presenting “Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia.” Divya Cherian is an historian of late precolonial and early colonial South Asia. She is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University and the author of the recently published Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in
“Automobilities and Urban Topologies in Contemporary India: Whose Road Is It Anyway?” with Tarini Bedi
The South Asian Studies Speaker Series hosts Tarini Bedi (University of Illinois Chicago) presenting “Automobilities and Urban Topologies in Contemporary India: Whose Road Is It Anyway?”
“Film Screening: Sama in the Forest” with Coralynn Davis
Film Screening: Sama in the Forest Coralynn Davis, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Bucknell University Sama in the Forest delves into the subversive role women’s folktales can play in a patriarchal society. The film is set in Madhubani, a district in India’s state of Bihar, where a rich cultural identity extends from the mythical