Colloquium

Departmental Colloquium - Summer Semester 2024

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Our program:

• 02.05.2024 | Exploring lived forms of Female Agency and Adaptation through the figure of the “Mahari” temple performer in Odisha
  Shriya Patnaik (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)


• 23.05.2024 | Sounding Princely Modernity: Musicians, Nawabs, and the Urdu Public Sphere in Colonial North India, c. 1857-1947
  Gianni Sievers (Utrecht University)


• 05.06.2024 | A Stream of Pure Sanskrit Curses: Caste, Fantasy, and Genre in Nehruvian India
  Gregory Goulding (University of Pennsylvania)


• 06.06.2024 | The All-India Khilafat Committee in the Age of Minority Rights: An Alternative History, 1917-1932
  Roy Bar Sadeh (Freie Universität Berlin)


• 20.06.2024 | Camp Urbanism and the Emergence of the Modern Slum in 20th Century Bombay
  Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College)


• 27.06.2024 | Courtezans and Jogis: Ideologies of Gender and Public Culture in Empire
  Rumya Putcha (University of Georgia)


• 11.07.2024| Violence and Extraction: Caste and ther Welfare Regime in Postcolonial Tamilnadu 1950s-80s
  Rupa Vishwanath (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)


• 25.07.2024| Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
  Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Universität Leipzig)