Month: October 2024

Tuesday, Nov 12| 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Zoom

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You are formally invited to a captivating Zoom book event featuring author Douglas Ober. In his new book, Dust on the Throne, Ober challenges the conventional narrative that Buddhism disappeared from India between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, only to be revived by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in 1956. Instead, Ober uncovers the crucial yet overlooked role that Indians played in shaping modern global Buddhism long before Ambedkar’s conversion. Drawing on a wealth of archival and temple materials from across South Asia, Dust on the Throne explores Buddhist religious dynamics in the context of colonial expansion, intra-Asian connectivity, and the writings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indian thinkers. Ober’s work sheds light on Buddhism’s significant socio-political influence and intellectual legacy in modern Indian history, reframing the place of Buddhism in the subcontinent.

 Event Details:
 Date: November 12th, 2024
 Time: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
 Virtual Webinar
 Register Here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B4dheWVFQ9ypfqxUsZuZFQ

Speaker

Douglas Ober, Lecturer in History, Fort Lewis College and Honorary Research Associate in the Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia

Commentators

V. Geetha, Editorial Director, Tara Books

Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Moderator

Reiko Ohnuma, Robert 1932 and Barbara Black Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to register today and join us for a captivating discussion with Douglas Ober.

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Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. 

Tuesday, Oct 15| 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Zoom

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You are formally invited to an illuminating Zoom book event featuring author Amanda Lanzillo. In her new book, Pious Labor, Lanzillo explores how, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, laborers across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these changes, Indian Muslim artisans asserted the connection between their religion and labor, using the popular press to redefine Islamic traditions. Focusing on metalsmiths, stonemasons, tailors, press workers, and carpenters, Pious Labor explores colonial-era social and technological changes from the workers’ perspectives. Amanda Lanzillo reveals how the colonial marginalization of these artisans shapes the ongoing exclusion of laboring voices. Using Urdu technical manuals and community histories, she highlights the materiality and cultural agency of artisans, addressing a significant gap in South Asian history.

 Event Details:
 Date: October 15th, 2024
 Time: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
 Virtual Webinar
 Register Here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wHyRtpUmRRCRbbr3BvcW-w

Speaker

Amanda Lanzillo, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Commentators

Douglas Haynes, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Dartmouth College

Razak Khan, Research Fellow in Global History, Department of History, Free University Berlin

Moderator

Curt Gambetta, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, and Lecturer, Department of Art History

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to register today and join us for a captivating discussion with Amanda Lanzillo.

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Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. 

Tuesday, Oct 1| 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM ET | Zoom

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You are formally invited to an insightful Zoom book event featuring author Arsalan Khan. In his new book, The Promise of Piety, Khan explores the fervent dedication to face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement, the Tablighi Jamaat. This movement argues that Muslims have forsaken their religious obligations for worldly distractions, leading to a moral crisis manifesting in fractured familial, national, and global Islamic relationships. The Tablighis assert that dawat is the sacred means to restore Islamic virtue and bring Muslims back to their faith. Khan delves into how this form of pious relationality, embedded in both ritual and everyday practice, aims to transform private and public life, while also examining the potential and limits of creating an Islamic moral order in the face of political fragmentation and violence in postcolonial Pakistan.

 Event Details:
 Date: October 1st, 2024
 Time: 12:45 PM-2:00 PM
 Virtual Webinar
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Speaker

Arsalan Khan, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Commentators

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Chair of Muslim Societies and Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Attiya Ahmad, Associate Professor, Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University

Moderator

Faiza Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, and Lecturer, Department of Religion

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to register today and join us for a captivating discussion with Arsalan Khan.

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Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College.