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The talk will last for one hour, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.\r\n\r\n*Date:* July 27, 2025 (Sunday) \r\n*Time:* 3 PM \r\n*Venue:* Michigan Room \u2013 Michigan League (2nd Floor) \r\n 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 \r\n\r\n*For questions:* vedanta.a2@gmail.com\r\n*Our website:* https:\/\/maizepages.umich.edu\/organization\/VSC\r\n\r\n*About the speaker:* Pr. Divyanandaprana is a monastic member of Sri Sarada Math at New Delhi, India and currently is the editor of the English journal Samvit, published from New Delhi. She has been the Principal of Nivedita Vidya Mandir School from 2014-2019. She specializes in the areas of Yoga-Vedanta. In addition to studying the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda literature, she has extensively studied the Yoga-Vedanta texts based on these twin philosophies which include the Patanjali\u2019s Yoga Sutras, Raja Yoga, Upanishads and the Prakarana Granthas (auxiliary scriptures of Vedanta like Vedantasara, Vivekachudamani etc.) along with their commentaries. Her additional areas of interest include the Brahma Sutras with Sankara's commentary, works of Ramana Maharishi and the Bhagavad Gita. A gold medalist, Pr. Divyanandaprana has the unique combination of knowledge in the conventional sciences, and traditional Yogic and Vedantic texts. Pr. Divyanandaprana has been lecturing all over India since 2010, including IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Mumbai, IIT Kanpur, IISc Bangalore, Delhi University, Vivekananda International Centre, Ramakrishna Mission Engineering and Medical Colleges in Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata and sometimes in schools. She offers courses on Yoga-Vedanta every semester at IIT Delhi. The courses are available on YouTube at IIT\u2019s official channel: NRCVEE IIT Delhi.\r\n\r\n Internationally, she has traveled to hold classes or deliver lectures in South Africa at Cape Town, Durban, Ladysmith and Kwa Zulu Natal University among other places. Subsequently, she traveled to Ireland, Great Britain, UAE and recently to Canada for talks, lectures and scriptural discussions. She has spoken at Imperial College and Logan\r\nHall, London University in 2013. In May 2018, she was in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax and Nova Scotia where she gave a number of talks on Self-Knowledge, exploring the Subjective Sciences and finding the interface between Subjective-Objective Sciences. She has extensively traveled in the US and addressed Vedanta Societies of Iowa, Washington DC. Purdue University hosted her talk on Mind Management recently. 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In that same decade, anthropologists and sociologists like Clifford Geertz and Joseph Gusfield fundamentally transformed the social sciences by newly centering attention to writing. This talk asks why Telugu South India similarly saw the emergence of new socio-political writing and documentation practices in the 1970s, highlighting four examples: the Jana Natya Mandali\u2019s (People\u2019s Theatre Troupe) new documentary song-story compositions; AP State Harijan Conference reports; documentation produced by the RSU\u2019s \u201cGo to Villages Campaign\u201d; and the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee\u2019s introduction of regular \u201cfact-finding missions.\u201d\r\n \r\n Lisa Mitchell is professor of anthropology & history in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of *Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections* (Duke University Press 2023; Permanent Black 2023) and *Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue* (Indiana University Press 2009; Permanent Black 2010), which received the Edward Cameron Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fulbright, European Research Council, American Institute for Indian Studies, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.\r\n \r\n This lecture is the keynote address of the CSAS 2025 Graduate Student Conference \u201cNew Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics.\u201d\r\n\r\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. 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How have historians approached conversion in the Mughal Empire? Why were the Mughals, including Aurangzeb, largely uninterested in conversion? And how can we think about the motives, meanings, and limits of conversion at the Mughal court? The lecture concludes with the story of Hidayatkesh Khan, a convert to Islam who rose to become Aurangzeb\u2019s private secretary, revealing both the opportunities and constraints that conversion could entail under Mughal rule.\r\n \r\n Munis D. Faruqui is a historian in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. His focus is on the Muslim experience in South Asia, especially during the Mughal period. 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While AI-generated content was minimal, the persistence of debunked misinformation suggests serious limitations in the reach and effectiveness of fact-checking efforts within these private groups.\n\n This study makes several key contributions. First, we develop and deploy a bottom up, opt-in data donation model at scale, potentially providing methods that generalize to other social media platforms. Second, we develop innovative and practical strategies to sample and collect representative samples from social media by combining field work and digital tools. Third, we provide unprecedented quantitative insights into everyday WhatsApp usage patterns and content sharing behaviour's. The implications of our research extend beyond WhatsApp, offering valuable insights for developing effective content moderation policies across encrypted communication channels. Our data collection approach can be adapted for studying other platforms, particularly crucial in an environment where API access is increasingly restricted.\n \nKiran Garimella is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers. Prior to joining Rutgers, Garimella was the Michael Hammer postdoc at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT and a postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland. His research focuses on using digital data for social good, including areas like polarization, misinformation and human migration. His work on studying and mitigating polarization on social media won the best paper awards at top computer science conferences. Kiran received his Ph.D. in computer science at Aalto University, Finland, and Masters & Bachelors from IIIT Hyderabad, India. 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This paper will explore the historical dimension to this movement, and more particularly, the ways in which the current government has attempted to erase memory of India\u2019s most glorious empire \u2013 the Mughals \u2013 from the historical record. This paper will explore several dimensions to this effort, including interventions in the school curricula, the manipulation of the memory of Mughal architecture, literary and linguistic tastes, the erasure of Mughal space as reflected in new place names, both implemented and proposed, and through Bollywood depictions of figures associated with the Mughal empire.\n\n*Lecture followed by reception at Forum hall, Palmer Commons 4th floor*\n \nA graduate of the universities of Virginia and Wisconsin, Professor Eaton teaches South Asian history at the University of Arizona. 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