Workshops of the Chicago Tamil Forum
The annual Chicago Tamil Forum brings together a small group of scholars to present on ongoing scholarly works-in-progress regarding Tamil language, society, and culture, widely construed. The meetings involve a public keynote or film screening, followed by one to two days of workshopping pre-circulated papers.
Past participants include: E. Annamalai, Indira Arumugam, Bernard Bate, Francis Cody, Whitney Cox, Sonia Das, Christina Davis, Sara Dickey, Sascha Ebeling, Swarnavel Eswaran, Stephen Hughes, Kajri Jain, Mythri Jegathesan, Damodaran Karthikeyan, Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Preetha Mani, William Mazzarella, Constantine V. Nakassis, V. Rajesh, Bhavani Raman, Srilata Raman, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Anna Seastrand, Martha Selby, Susan Seizer, David Shulman, Michael Silverstein, S. V. Srinivas, Perundevi Srinivasan, Shiv Subramaniam, Torsten Tschacher, A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Rupa Visvanath, Amanda Weidman
2014 – New Directions in the Anthropological Study of Tamil Nadu, India (May 29-31, 2014)
2015 – Margins of Dravidianism (May 21-23, 2015)
2016 – Politics of Media, Media of Politics (May 19-21, 2016)
2017 – Poesis/Politics of Language and Place in Tamilagam (May 25-27, 2017)
2018 – Mass Publicity and Mediation in Tamilagam (May 24–26, 2018)
2019 – Never Alone: The Linguistic Ecologies of Tamil (May 23–25, 2019)
2020 – Tamil Images (October 9–10, 2020)
2021 – Caste and Community in Modern Tamilagam (May 13–15, 2021)
2022 – Social Meaning and Pragmatics in Tamil Discourse (May 12–14, 2022)
2023 – Translation (May 4–5, 2023)