Past Events



South Asia Studies Digital Humanities Workshop

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) & Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)
Andrew Ollett, Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago
Oct 10, 2024 - Oct 11, 2024 at -

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Measures and Standards in the Making of a Medieval Polity

Measuring Land, Measuring People: Rewriting the History of Mathematics in South India
Oct 9, 2024 at -



History from the Margins: Memory, Knowledge Production, and Locality in South India, 1600-2000 CE

Oct 4, 2024 - Oct 5, 2024 at -

 

 



Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

A SAST Colloquium
Janaki Bakhle, University of California-Berkeley
Oct 2, 2024 at -



Songs of the Sufi Film Screening

The Untold Story of Classical Qawwali
Kamran Anwar, Prof. Katherine Schofield, King's College London
Sep 27, 2024 at -

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Clashing Temporalities: The Ordinary Struggles of Reconciling Patient Care with Infastructure Planning in an Indian E-Governance Program

A SAST Colloquium
Ursula Rao, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Sep 25, 2024 at -



Consequences of the Swachh Bharat Mission: Minor Height Gains and Major Survey Pains

CASI Seminar Series in partnership with the South Asia Center, Center for Global Health & PDRI-DevLab
Sangita Vyas Assistant Professor, Economics, Hunter College, CUNY
Sep 12, 2024 at -

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The Tamil Historical Novel of World War II: Nation and Realist Form in Pa. Cinkaram's Novels

A SAST Colloquium
Vasugi Kailasam, University of California-Berkeley
Sep 11, 2024 at -



Annual Spring Fest

Hosted by the Friends of Bangla
Jun 8, 2024 at -

In the middle of stressful life and disturbing news around the globe, we are trying to spread harmony and compassion among the members of the community, with special emphasis on the K-12 kids. Our intent is to build…



Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History

In collaboration with the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), the South Asia Studies Department (SAST), and the Legal History Workshop
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, University of Virginia
May 2, 2024 at -