Veena Das

Veena Das is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University. Before her retirement, she was the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology. Das’s research covers a range of fields. She is passionately interested in the question of how ethnography generates concepts; how we might treat philosophical and literary traditions from India and other regions as generative of theoretical and practical understanding of the world; how to render the texture and contours of everyday life; and the way everyday and the event are joined together in the making of the normal and the critical. Her work on collective violence and urban transformations has appeared in many anthologies.

Events

Panel Discussion

Returning to Normal? Life After A Pandemic

Wed, Apr 19, 2023
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Workshop

Terms of Engagement

Thu, Apr 11, 2019
10:30 AM – 6:00 PM