2021
- The Inaugural Drs. Kiran and Pallavi Patel Endowed Lecture in Gujarat Studies and The Roy C. Craven, Jr. Memorial Lecture by John Guy- “Traders to the World: Cosmopolitan Gujarat as an Agent of Global Exchange in Medieval India and its Artistic Legacy “
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Consuming Bhakti: Dilemmas in Devotion in Indian Poetry: A set of four lectures by leading scholars over four weeks:
Gil Ben-Herut – “Translating the Regional, Negotiating Bhakti and Sainthood.”
Jon Keune – “Critical Commensality as a Window into the Bhakti-Caste Question.”
Harshita Kamath – “Bhakti Songs for the God on the Hill: The Legacy of Tallapaka Annamayya.”
Heidi Pauwels – “Emotion and Devotion: The Rise of the Vernacular Revisited.”
2020
- The Fifth Suvarna D Shah Poetry Festival
- CHiTra Mela 4 – Research and Pedagogy in South Asia and Global Hindu Traditions: A Symposium For Faculty and Graduate Students in Florida
2019
- CHiTra Mela III– Research and Pedagogy in South Asia and Global Hindu Traditions: A Symposium For Faculty and Graduate Students in Florida
- Dr. Steven M. Vose is the Bhagwan Mahavir Assistant Professor of Jain Studies and Director, Jain Studies Program, at the Florida International University, lecture. Reinventing Rajacandra for a Global Indian Devotional Public
- Dr. Caleb Simmons (Ph.D. in Religion, University of Florida) is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. He specializes in religion in South Asia, especially Hinduism. Displays of Power: Multiple Registers of Kingship and Power in the Murals of Mysore Rangamahal
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Classical Bharata Natyam dance by Viraja and Shyamjith Kiran (Kalakshetra alumni), sponsored by The Center for the study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), University of Florida
2018
- CHiTra Mela II– Research and Pedagogy in South Asia and Global Hindu Traditions: A Symposium For Faculty and Graduate Students in Florida
- Dr. Tony Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Chair in the Humanities, Professor and Chair, Religion (Vanderbilt University), lecture. Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaisnava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal
- Dr. Shobana Shankar, Fellow at the Humanities Institute of Stony Brook and Africa’s Asian Option Fellow (Goethe Institute in Frankfurt), lecture. Afro-Dravidianism: A Senegalese-South Indian Muslim-Hindu Enchantment
- The Fourth Suvarna D. Shah Gujarati Poetry Festival
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CHiTra talk with music demonstration. This event was co-sponsored the UF School of Music. Sudha Ragunathan – Tradition and Innovation in Carnatic Music.
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The Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) — Indian Classical Music Endowment Fund presented A free Carnatic Violin concert on March 2, 2018: Violin: Kalaimamani M. Narmadha Percussion: Vijay Ganesh (Mridangam) and Chandrasekara Sharma (Ghatam)
2017
- CHiTra Mela– Research and Pedagogy in South Asia and Global Hindu Traditions: A Symposium For Faculty and Graduate Students in Florida
2016
- Sitar Concert by Vidushi Mita Nag, Pandit Joydeep Ghosh (sarod) and Pandit Subhen Chatterjee (Tabla/ percussion).
- Dr. Christopher Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University, lecture. Jaina Yoga / Hindu Yoga: Creative Reciprocity
- Gabri Viswanathan, Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, lecture. Conversion and the Idea of the Secret
- The Third Suvarna D Shah Poetry Festival
2015
- Professor Suresh Sethuraman, Fulbright Academic and Lecturing Fellow, University of Mary Washington, lecture. From Kanchipuram to Kampuchea; South Indian Cultural Influence in Cambodia
- Professor Suresh Sethuraman, Fulbright Academic and Lecturing Fellow, University of Mary Washington, lecture. East Meets West; Roman contacts with South Asia
- Professor Andrea Acri, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, lecture. Hinduism in Bali
- Professor Andrea Acri, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, lecture. Hindu-Buddhist Sacred Spaces in Indonesia
- Professor Balvant Jani, Saurashtra University, lecture. Gujarati literature in the diaspora
- Acharya Arumuganathaswami, Managing Editor of Hinduism Today. A conversation with the Managing Editor of Hinduism Today
2014
- Professor Cherie Sampson, University of Missouri, lecture. From the Forests to the Farm – Siting Environmental Performance in the Wild and the Cultivated
- Professor Gil Ben-Herut, University of South Florida, lecture. Things Standing Shall Move: A Look at the Virashaiva Tradition of South India
- The Second Suvarna D. Shah Gujarati Poetry Festival
2013
- Facing East Concert: World-Class World Music
- String of Pearls Concert – Harn Museum Nights (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)
- A Screening of Horn Please: The Journey of Indian Truck Art (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)
- Gatha Odissi: A Classical Indian Dance Performance
- Sankara Concert – North American Tour
- Celebrate India at the Harn Family Day! (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)
- Carnatic Music Concert
- Professor Cynthia Packert, Middlebury College, lecture. ‘The Lord’s Own Temple-Museum:’ Memory, Myth, and Monuments in Swaminarayan Hinduism (Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)
- Dr. Lalitha Muthuswamy (Fulbright-Nehru Fellow, University of Iowa, lecture and performance: South Indian Classical Music Lecture & Demonstration (with the School of Music)
2012
- Professor Graham Schweig, Christopher Newport University, lecture. Expanding the Notion of ‘Theism:’ An Interreligious Theological Analysis of Yoga and Bhakti Conceptions
- Professor Jonathan Edelmann, Mississippi State University, lecture. Hindu Theology as Churning the Ocean of Milk
- A Violin Concert—Carnatic Music
- Dr. Howard Resnick, lecture. Spiritualism vs. Consumerism: Finding the Bottom Line
- Josh Feinberg, A Sitar Concert
- The Inaugural Suvarna D. Shah Gujarati Poetry Festival
2011
- Exhibit at the Thomas Center, Gainesville, Temples and Festivals: A Celebration of Indian Art (co-sponsored with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)
- An Evening with Heartbeat Ensemble: A Rhythmic – Melodic Extravaganza
- Professor Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Middlebury College, lecture. A Gujarati Song as a Universal Moral Anthem: Gandhi’s Favorite Hymn, Vaishnava janato
- Mathura Alladi and the Jathiswara School of Music and Dance, Sangeet Sammelan – The Wedding of Andal
- East Marries West: A Lecture and Demonstration of Classical Duets
- Professor Kathleen Erndl, Florida State University, lecture. Woman Becomes Goddess in Bollywood: Justice, Violence, and the Feminine in Popular Hindi Film
- Professor Makarand Paranjape, National University of Singapore and JNU, New Delhi, lecture. The Relevance of Gandhi to Environmental Studies
- Professor Makarand Paranjape, National University of Singapore and JNU, New Delhi. Discussion led by Makarand Paranjape on Hindu Traditions in Singapore
2010
- Professor Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State University and TED lecturer, lecture. Tapestry thinking and tapestry actions: weaving threads of science, arts, and the humanities to create the good life (co-sponsored with the Office of Academic Affairs, I-cubed, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere)
- Dr. Howard Resnick, lecture. Avatars, Atheists, and Anarchy: Discovering Religion in India
- Professor Sufia Uddin, Connecticut College, lecture. Speaking the Same Language: The Bengali Muslims Hindus Who Venerate Bonbibi of the Sundarbans
- Professor Sufia Uddin, Connecticut College, seminar. Marking the Presence of Bonbibi
- Professor Ann Gold, Syracuse University, lecture. Why Sacred Groves Matter: Post-Romantic Claims
- Welcome to Sangeet Sammelan: A Grand Musical Event!
- Global Music (Trinidad and Tobago, Percussion) Lenny Kumar and Tassa Drummers
- Outreach Event. Asian Adventure: Family Day at the Harn Museum of Art
- An Evening of Classical South Indian Music
2009
- Ron Chandler and Professor Whitney Sanford, lecture and response. Endangered Elephants of Manas National Park, India, and the Reconstitution of Indigenous Culture
- A Conversation with Dr. Chellamal, visiting Fulbright Scholar. Diet, Rituals, and Celebrations in Tamilnadu
- Professor Thomas A. Tweed (University of Texas, Austin), lecture. Studying Religion in Motion in a Global Context. The Second TSGC Workshop on Global Religions in Practice
- Josh Feinberg. Sitar Recital
- An Evening of Hindustani Music
2008
- Dr. Amita Baviskar. Institute for Economic Growth, New Delhi. Waterscapes: Seeking Nature and Justice Along Indian Rivers (Co-sponsored with The Water Institute and the Center for Womens Studies and Gender Research)
- Professor Linda L. Barnes, Boston University. Integrative Medicine in America: Hindu and Chinese Healing Traditions
- A Conference. An Ocean of Devotion: Regional Traditions
- Carnatic Music Concert
- Hermann Kreutzmann (Department of Geography, Free University, Berlin, lecture. Water • Gender • Equity: Water in the Karakoram (Co-sponsored with The Water Institute and the Center for Womens Studies and Gender Research)
- A Thirst for Change – Awareness to Action (Co-sponsored with The Water Institute and the Center for Womens Studies and Gender Research, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art)
- Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University, Workshop. “Accounting for Performance and Bodies in Transnational Religion” The First TSGC Workshop on Global Religions in Practice (Co-sponsored with the UF International Center; the Transnational and Global Studies Center, UF; and the Department of Political Science)
- Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University, Seminar. “Aesthetics and Goddesses Who do Not Migrate: What’s Left Behind Shapes What is Here” The First TSGC Workshop on Global Religions in Practice (Co-sponsored with the UF International Center; the Transnational and Global Studies Center, UF; and the Department of Political Science)
- Swati Mahalakshmi, Mathura Alladi, Vinata Vedam, Anapayini Mayshark, and Vrinda Sheth. Triveni Sangam: A Confluence of Three Classical Indian Dance Forms
2007
- Professor Archana Venkatesan, St. Lawrence University. “Of Decoration and Disguise: Enjoying the Form of the Goddess at the Andal Temple in Srivilliputtur” An Andal Evening: An Evening of Music, Classical Dance, and Discussion (Co-sponsored with The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in cooperation with the Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation, and the Harn Museum of Art)
- Dr. Guy Beck, lecture and performance. Hinduism and Hindustani Music
- Carnatic Music Concert
- Vaijayanthi Gopinath (Vocal), Dr Tanmay Lele (Tabla), Venkatesh Srinivasan (Harmonium). An Evening of Hindustani Music (Co-sponsored with The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPICMACAY)
2006
- Nrityagram Dance Ensemble Workshop
- Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
- Kathak (North Indian) Classical Dance Performance by Uma Dogra
- Bharata Natyam