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SAAD Graduate Workshop: Sedimented, Intertwined Histories: Building Railways and Sacred Landscapes in Malaysia and Singapore
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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 05:15pm — 07:00pm
South Asia Across Disciplines Graduate Workshop Speaker: Vineeta Sinha, Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Discussant: Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions, Harvard Divinity School Using the history of colonial railway construction in Singapore and Malaysia as a lens, Prof. Sinha narrates the interlocking accounts of Indian labour migrations to these […]
More InfoStrangely Familiar: Reading Buddhist Texts Around the Indian Ocean
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Thu, Nov 16, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm
Cornell University Professor of Buddhist Studies, Anne Blackburn, will explore processes of reading premodern Buddhist texts.
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