SAGSC X: Program
Feb 4th, 2013 by ishan
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The entire conference will take place in the Classics Building, Room 110.
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Day One: April 4th, 2013
Session One
8:30 AM: Coffee, Breakfast and Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 AM: Panel I: Tamil and Telugu Literature
Chair: Rajagopal Vakulabharanam
Sravanthi Kollu / Disrupting Literature’s Place: Intentionality and Politics in Telugu Feminist Poetry
Malarvizhi Jayanth / Crafting the Dalit Political Subject in South India
10:15-11:15 AM: Panel II: Sanskrit Literature
Chair: Gary Tubb
Shiv Subramaniam / How to Read a Stotra? A Close Reading of Vedāntadeśika’s Godāstuti
Luther Obrock / Abhinava, Somadeva, and the Problem of the Total Text
11:30 AM-12:30 PM: Whitney Cox
Dākṣiṇātyābhavadbhaṅgiḥ: Literary and Political Peregrinations in Medieval South Asia
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Session Two
12:45 PM: Lunch
2:30-3:30 PM: Panel III: Persian Literature
Chair: Franklin Lewis
Leila El-Murr / Zulaykhā’s Banquet Interpreted through the Lens of Vision
Hajnalka Kovacs / “No Journey is Possible Outside of the Heart:” The Story of King Lavaṇa in Bedil’s Muḥīṭ-i Aʿẓam
3:45-4:45 PM: Panel IV: Mughal Literature
Chair: Thibaut d’Hubert
Hasan Siddiqui / Naqshbandīyya and Counter-Insurgency in the Eighteenth Century: The Asrār of ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Khān
Usman Hamid / A Traditionist’s Counsel to the Mughal Emperor: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dilhavī’s Risāla-yi Nūrīya-yi Sulṭānīya
5:00-6:00 PM: A. Azfar Moin
Akbar’s “Jesus” and Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine”: Strange Parallels of Early Modern Sacredness
6:30 PM: Dinner
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Day Two: April 5th, 2013
Session Three
8:30 AM: Coffee and Breakfast
8:45-10:00 AM: Panel V: Satire and Nostalgia in Colonial North India
Chair: Rochona Majumdar
Debjani Bhattacharyya / Hujuk and Lies: The World of Satire in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Ahona Panda / From Navya to Ādhunik: Nostalgia and the Various Forms of the Modern in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
Sravani Biswas / Deadly Punch: The Role of the Cartoon as a Site of Resistance in Late Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
10:15-11:15 AM: Panel VI: Buddhist Literature
Chair: Steven Collins
Davey Tomlinson / Maitrīpa’s Amanasikārādhāra, or How to Not Pay Attention
Justin Fifield / Narrative Explanation and Anthologization in South Asian Buddhist Literature
11:30 AM-12:30 PM: Charles Hallisey
Seeing with the Mind’s Eye: Synergies between Literature and Meditative Practice in Medieval Sri Lanka
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Session Four
12:45 PM: Lunch
2:30-3:30 PM: Panel VII: Places of Urdu
Chair: Elena Bashir
Alexander Jabbari / From Hagiography to History: The Place of the Tażkirah in Literary Criticism
M.A. Ahmad Khan / Changes in the Space of the Mushāʿirah, 1874-1950
3:45-4:45 PM: Panel VIII: Faiẓ Aḥmad Faiẓ
Chair: C.M. Naim
Francesca Chubb-Confer / Solidarity, Exile, and Longing from Pakistan to Palestine: Faiẓ Aḥmad Faiẓ in Beirut
Taimoor Shahid / The Prejudice of Place in Literature: Resituating Faiẓ Aḥmad Faiẓ’s “Communist” Poetry in its Locale
5:00-6:00 PM: Frances W. Pritchett
“Orient Pearls” Split Open: The Subatomic Structure of the Ghazal