Events Sponsored by the IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG

May 22 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Mapping the Terrain of Early American Yoga: Hindu Lecturers, Yogi Cults, and Swami Rackets Philip Deslippe (Religious Studies, UCSB)
May 8 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Jewish Topographies and Indian Genres: Kirtan among the Bene Israel of Maharashtra Shalv Weil (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Jun 4 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: The Khrist Bhaktas of Banaras: Visions, Representations, and Dangerous Prognostications Kerry San Chirico (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
May 30 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Ruling in Ancient Greece and India: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Philosophy Stuart Gray (Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Apr 30 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Temple Piety, Temple Power: Vishnu Devotion in Cambodia Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida)
Apr 26 Thu
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Religion to Make a Nation: The Idea of the Bhakti Movement John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University)
Mar 14 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Bollywood Deities and Star Murtis: The Amitabh Bachchan Temple and Devotional Fandom in Indian Popular Culture Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow)
Jan 18 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Tomb as Temple, Guru as Murti Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Nov 3 Thu
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Humoring the Saints: Mirabai and Her Guru John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University)
Oct 3 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Buddhist Diplomacy in Colonial Southern Asia Anne Blackburn (South Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies, Cornell University)
May 23 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Bhopali Van Maximillian Carlson (Director)
May 11 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Transnational Star Deities and Devotional Fandom: A Case of USA Rajinikanth Fans Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow)
Apr 21 Thu
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Plastic Archives: Documenting the Cinema-City Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Mar 3 Thu
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: American Veda: India’s Transformation of American Culture Philip Goldberg
May 19 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Early Tantric Theogonies: The Genesis of Pantheons in the Streams of the Current of the Bhairava Tantras Mark Dyczkowski (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi)
May 18 Tue
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Indian Catholics: Issues from the Perspective of Development Rowena Robinson (Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Feb 17 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame Saloni Mathur (Art History, UCLA)
Feb 3 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Moving Technologies: Global Icons in South Asia Bishnupriya Ghosh (English, UCSB)
Jan 27 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Sinister Yogis David White (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Nov 18 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Engaging the Visual in the Anthropology of South Asia Mary Hancock (Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara)
May 22 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Beyond Orientalist Frameworks: Towards a Religious Studies Model of Buddhism and Islam in Ladakh Rohit Singh (Religous Srudies, UCSB)
May 15 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Embodying the Divine in the Minaksi-Sundaresvara Temple Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
May 6 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Silence and Abstinence: Axes in Religious Belief and Practice Luis Oscar Gómez (Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico)
Feb 27 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Devotional Fanscapes in Popular Culture: Rajinikanth Fan Club—A New Political Force? Shalini Kakar (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Dec 5 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Chaturanga Suman Mukhopadhyay (Director)
Nov 3 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Punches n Ponytails Pankaj Rishi Kumar (Director)
Jun 9 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: The Buddha as Embodied in Gnosis: Revisioning the History of Buddha Body Conceptions Michael Radich (Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
May 23 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Disciplining the Body: Reflections on Embodiment in Jain Traditions Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden)
Apr 16 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Bodies on Display: Religious Processions in the South Asian Diaspora Knut A. Jacobsen (History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway)
Mar 7 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: What Not to Do with a Tantrika: Some Notes on Ethnography in India June McDaniel (Religious Studies, College of Charleston)
Feb 20 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Vigrahas and Murtis: Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahabharata Kendall Busse (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Jan 30 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Globalization of Services and the Making of a New Global Service Labor Force in India’s Silicon Valley Amandeep Sandhu (Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
May 16 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: You Said It Wouldn’t Hurt: Revisualizing (South Asian) History through the Grotesque Rajkamal Kahlon (IHC Visiting Artist)
May 9 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in Hindu Studies Tracy Pintchman (Religious Studies, Loyola University Chicago)
Apr 27 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Herbert Suman Mukhopadhyay (Director)
Apr 12 Thu
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Britain’s Changing Religious Landscape: The Impact of South Asian Migration Judith M. Brown (History, Balliol College, Oxford University)
Mar 9 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Now “Ladies” Also Sing: Gender Politics in Post-1990 Biraha, A North Indian Folk Music Tradition Scott Marcus (Music, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Mar 5 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: What is Sikh Sacred Music? The Structure and Role of Music in Sikh Traditions Inderjit N. Kaur (Sikh Music Heritage Institute, Santa Cruz)
Feb 21 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Between Mecca and Malabar: Pilgrimage in the Formation of Muslim and Hindu Identities in the Indian Ocean Region Juan Campo (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Feb 14 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Fiction as Historical Archive? Reconfiguring Inquiry into India’s Colonial Past Farina Mir (History, University of Michigan)
Feb 14 Wed
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Is There Such a Thing as Sikh Architecture? Will Glover (Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan)
May 19 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Between Culture and Consciousness: On the Role of Effigies in Tamil Rituals Isabelle Clark-Decès (Anthropology, Princeton University)
Apr 28 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: The City and the Citizen: Forms in Bengali and Bombay Cinema of the 1950s Moinak Biswas (Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta)
Mar 3 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: Kabir Says, “Listen!” Bringing the Oral-Performative into Textual Studies in India Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University)
Feb 28 Tue
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG TALK: The Jaina-Mimamsa Debate on Omniscience Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden)
Jan 27 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG PLANNING MEETING: South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
Dec 2 Fri
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG CONFERENCE: South Asian Studies in the United States