BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents a talk by A nand Taneja of Vanderbilt University.In a time of dominant Hindu nationali sm and rising Islamophobia in India\, Urdu poetry is the medium in which a n alternative political theology finds popular articulation\, questioning the “normative horizon” of the nation-state. The political theology being articulated through Urdu poetry is one that is concerned not with the stat e\, but with the constitution of the self through a network of thick relat ions to locality. The vision articulated by this alternate political theol ogy — which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the li ved experience of Indian democracy — calls for a radical reimagining of in timate relations as the basis of belonging and the forming of political co mmunity.Anand Vivek Taneja is an associate professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University. He is an alumnus of Delhi University\, Jamia Mil lia Islamia and Columbia University\, where he completed a Ph.D. in anthro pology. He is the author of the award-winning book \;"Jinnealogy: Time \, Islam\, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi" (Stanfor d University Press\, 2017).This event is co-sponsored by the Departments o f Religion and Anthropology. DTEND:20230928T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T125132Z DTSTART:20230928T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Hindustan is a Dream: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Int imacy UID:RFCALITEM639141726924538821 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Cente r presents a talk by Anand Taneja of Vanderbilt University.

In a time of dominant Hindu nationalism and rising Islamophobia in India\, Urdu poetry is the medium in which an alternative political th eology finds popular articulation\, questioning the “normative horizon” of the nation-state. The political theology being articulated through Urdu p oetry is one that is concerned not with the state\, but with the constitut ion of the self through a network of thick relations to locality. The visi on articulated by this alternate political theology — which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the lived experience of Indian d emocracy — calls for a radical reimagining of intimate relations as the ba sis of belonging and the forming of political community.

Anand Vivek Taneja is an associate professor of religious studi es at Vanderbilt University. He is an alumnus of Delhi University\, Jamia Millia Islamia and Columbia University\, where he completed a Ph.D. in ant hropology. He is the author of the award-winning book \;"Jinn ealogy: Time\, Islam\, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Del hi" (Stanford University Press\, 2017).

This event is co-sponsored by the Departments of Rel igion and Anthropology.

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