About this Event
It is with great excitement that we invite you to our first event in the Navalar Nedunchezhiyan Seminar Series.
A. R. Venkatachalapathy (1967), historian and Tamil writer, is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. Apart from teaching at universities in Tirunelveli, and Chennai, Chalapathy has been the ICCR Chair in Indian Studies at the National University of Singapore (2011–12) and the Schaffner Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (2023).
Join us in conversation with Prof. A R Venkatachalapathy to discuss the politics and poetry of Subramania Bharati. C. Subramania Bharati (1882–1921) is probably the most important Tamil cultural figure of the twentieth century. The century since his death has seen a huge, and rich, volume of scholarly and popular writings on him. However, the near complete absence of academic scholarship on Bharati in English is hard to miss. Few South Asian historians even mention him in studies of nationalism. On the other hand, scholarship in Tamil has been largely literary. This lecture seeks to address these gaps.
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இருபதாம் நூற்றாண்டுத் தமிழுலகத்தின் பெரும் பண்பாட்டு ஆளுமையாகப் பாரதி தொடர்ந்து விளங்கிவருகிறார். பாரதி மறைந்து ஒரு நூற்றாண்டு நிறைவுற்ற பின்னும், அவரைப் பற்றிய ஆய்வுகள் தொடர்கின்றன. பாரதியைப் பற்றிய புரிதல் இந்த ஆய்வுகளால் வளம்பெற்றிருப்பினும் இடைவெளிகளுக்கும் குறைவில்லை. தெற்காசிய வரலாற்றாசிரியர்களின் கவனம் பாரதியின்மீது திரும்பவில்லை என்பது ஒரு பெருங்குறை. மற்றொருபுறம், தமிழில் நிகழும் பாரதி பற்றிய ஆய்வுகள் பெரிதும் இலக்கிய நோக்கிலானதாகவே அமைந்துள்ளன.
The location for this event will be announced closer to the date of the event.
This event is presented by Tamil Studies at the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns regarding this event.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TBA: University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail Rd., Scarborough, Canada
USD 0.00
