23rd Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago

SAGSC XXIII: South Asia Graduate Student Conference

March 5-6th, 2026, Swift Lecture Hall

Resonant Boundaries: (Inter)disciplinarity in and about South Asia

We welcome you to join us at this year’s conference, which seeks to explore the working interfaces and complex intertwinings of different textual canons, systems of knowledge, epistemological approaches and practices, mechanisms of community creation and affiliation, and trajectories of knowledge dissemination in scholarly research pertaining to South Asia.

We explore translation, philosophies, world-making, materialities, haunting, and healing.

Keynotes:

John Nemec (Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies, University of Virginia): 'Humanities Research and Interdisciplinarity in the Study of South Asian Religions'

Sarah Jacoby (Professor of Religious Studies, Northwestern): 'Reading Relational Ontologies in South Asian Sources' 

For more information, including the schedule, please visit: https://voices.uchicago.edu/sagsc/2025/11/11/sagsc-xxiii/