Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum

Govindarajan Navaneethakrishnan. 2022. “Meaning as Rescuer: Colonizing the Colonizer, the Tamil Way.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Social Meaning and Pragmatics in Tamil Discourse (May 12–13, 2022). Version 10.1.2022.

Eswaran, Swarnavel & Constantine V. Nakassis. 2022. “Doubled Meaning.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Social Meaning and Pragmatics in Tamil Discourse (May 12–13, 2022). Version 8.1.2022.

Steever, Sanford B. 2022. “Discursive and Non-Discursive Speech in the Structure of Tamil Grammar.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Social Meaning and Pragmatics in Tamil Discourse (May 12–13, 2022). Version 8.1.2022.

Cody, Francis. 2021. “Law at Large: Notes on the Public Mediation of Community in the Juridical Field.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Caste and Community in Modern Tamilagam (May 13–15, 2021). Version 6.7.2021.

Ram Manoharan, Karthick. 2021. “Is this a Sudra Critique? Periyar and the Intermediate Castes.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Caste and Community in Modern Tamilagam (May 13–15, 2021). Version 6.1.2021.

Annamalai, E. 2019. “My Take Home of ‘Never Alone’ (A Commentary).” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Never Alone: The Linguistic Ecologies of Tamil (May 23–25, 2019). Version 6.1.2019.

Raman, Srilata. 2019. “Useless Words: The Obsolescence of the Ningandus in the Tamil Literary Tradition.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Never Alone: The Linguistic Ecologies of Tamil (May 23–25, 2019). Version 6.1.2019.

Annamalai, E. 2017. “Beauty and Power (A commentary on the essays of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Poesis/Politics of Language and Place in Tamilagam).” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Poesis/Politics of Language and Place in Tamilagam (May 25-27, 2017). Version 6.1.2017.

Shulman, David. 2017. “Cinnatampip Pulavar’s Kalvalaiyantāti, or: Why Would an Eighteen-Century SriLankan Poet Play Such Games?” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Poesis/Politics of Language and Place in Tamilagam (May 25-27, 2017). Version 6.1.2017.

Nakassis, Constantine V. 2017. “Poetics of Praise and Cinematic Encompassment.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Poesis/Politics of Language and Place in Tamilagam (May 25-27, 2017). Version 6.1.2017.

Weidman, Amanda. 2016. “Circulating Voices: The Gendered Beginnings of Playback.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Politics of Media, Media of Politics (May 19-21, 2016). Version: 12.15.2016.

Srinivas, S. V. 2016. “Rajinikant and the “Regional Blockbuster”.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Politics of Media, Media of Politics (May 19-21, 2016). Version: 12.15.2016.

Nakassis, Constantine V. 2016. “Spoofs and the Politics of the Film Image’s Ontology in Tamil Cinema.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Politics of Media, Media of Politics (May 19-21, 2016). Version: 12.15.2016.

Srinivasan, Perundevi. 2016. “Love Meets Death: “Honour,” Violence, and Inter-caste Marriages in Tamil Nadu.” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – Politics of Media, Media of Politics (May 19-21, 2016). Version: 5.18.2017.

Annamalai, E. 2014. “Nalla Tamil: What Makes Tamil Good and Why?” Working Papers of the Chicago Tamil Forum – New Directions in the Anthropological Study of Tamil Nadu, India (May 29-31, 2014). Version 12.15.2016.