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Broadcast from the Belfry14. Homesick at Witch CampSend us a textThis episode concludes our discussion on witchcraft and witch hunts. It's a little less spooky and a little more actual, real-life horrifying. Hannah talks a bit about the words used to describe Malaysian witchcraft, Wu-ism and Mu-ism, and as always, colonial India.As Hannah mentions at the end of the episode, please considering donating your money, time, and/or energy to the following organizations that work to advocate for women affected by gender-based violence.Majlis ManchEnd Violence Against Women International (EVAWI)Sakhi for South...2024-05-1647 min
Asian Studies CentreAlong The Path To Gandhi's NeighborAjay Skaria - University of Minnesota, speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 1 May 2023. The figures of the neighbor and friend are ubiquitous in Gandhi’s writings. While he himself assumes he is only reaffirming old figures, something truly radical happens in his writings (as in those of his sharpest critic, Ambedkar). Both write at a time when a modern commandment, so to speak, exemplified in the categorical imperative, is displacing the Biblical and other analogous commandments. It is in order to criticize this new commandment that both affirm instead old commandments around neighbor and friend. But in...2023-06-1651 min
Centre of South Asian Studies: SeminarsProfessor Ajay Skaria - 'Thinking religion with Gandhi today'The 43rd annual Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Ajay Skaria, of the University of Minnesota, who imagines thinking about religion alongside Gandhi: using some of Gandhi's comments and writings to pursue questions which were not those Gandhi was considering, in a process he calls a 'faithful betrayal'.2017-06-0858 min![CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]](http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/chiasmosPodcastLogo_05_144.jpg)
CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]Panel 2: The Problem of Historical DifferencePanel 2: Miranda Johnson, University of MIchigan; Bain Attwood, Monash University; Ajay Skaria, University of MInnesota. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.2010-03-121h 12
Southern Asia EventsPanel 2: The Problem of Historical DifferencePanel 2: Miranda Johnson, University of MIchigan; Bain Attwood, Monash University; Ajay Skaria, University of MInnesota. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.2010-03-121h 12