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