The Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago
is pleased to announce
The Ninth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference
April 5-6, 2012
Swift Hall, University of Chicago
1025 East 58th Street
Panels on Day 1 and 2: Swift Commons (First Floor)
Keynote Address on Day 1 and 2: Swift Lecture Hall (Third Floor)
** Please note Swift Lecture Hall is the large room with double doors directly to the right of the3rd floor elevators.
Free and open to the public.
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SCHEDULE: Day 1 – Thursday April 5, 2012
8:30 – Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 – Introductory Remarks
9:00 – 10:00 – Panel I: Of Words and Texts
Chair: Prof. Vasudha Paramasivan, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Nabanjan Maitra, The University of Chicago, “A Play on Words: Krittibasa’s Ramayana as Poem and Performance”
Elaine Fisher, Columbia University, “The Sources of Sectarian Debate: The Extra Textual Life of Sanskrit Philology in Seventeenth Century South India”
10:15 – 11:45 – Panel II: Perception and Philosophy
Chair: Prof. Gary Tubb, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
Pierre-Julien Harter, The University of Chicago, “Path and Conceptualization: An Investigation of Vikalpa in the Path of Preparation”
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Columbia University, “Hum Hain Naye Andaz Kyun Ho Purana? Hermeneutical Innovations in Advaita Vedanta Intellectual History”
Andrew Ollett, Columbia University, “What is Bhavana?”
12:00 – 1:00 – Panel III: Art of History
Chair: Prof. Kathleen Morrison, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Aryendra Chakravartty, Pennsylvania State University, “The Curious Case of Magadha: Archeological Production of a “National” Historical Landscape in 19th and 20th Century Bihar”
Marta Becherini, Columbia University, “Forging Identity in Medieval Ladakh: Quotation and Artistic Invention in the Murals of the Sumtsek Temple, Alchi”
1:00 – 2:30 – Lunch for conference participants and faculty, Foster Hall, Room No: 103
2:30 – 4:30 – Panel IV: Law and Society
Chair: Dr. Poornima Paidipaty, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, The University of Chicago
Rohit De, Princeton University, “Kaushalya Devi’s Profession: Sex, Work, and Freedom in the Indian Constitution”
Julia Kowalski, The University of Chicago, “Weapon or Support? Ideologies of Care and Matrimonial Legislation in Jaipur, India”
Deepa Acevedo, The University of Chicago, “Divine Bachelors, Female Devotees and the Law at Sabarimala, 2006-2011″
Rebecca Grapevine, University of Michigan, “Cruelty and Concurrent Powers: The UP Amendment and the Hindu Marriage Act, 1962″
5:00 – 6:30 – Keynote Address
Prof. Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University, “Escaping Intelligibility: Translation and the Politics of Knowledge.”
Chair: Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
6:30 – Reception and Dinner, Swift Commons
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SCHEDULE: Day 2 – Friday April 6, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 – Panel V: Colonial Knowledge
Chair: Prof. John D. Kelly, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Charu Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Yale University, “Configuring the Monsoon: Nature, Knowledge, and the Making of Meteorology in Nineteenth Century British India”
Samiparna Samanta, Florida State University, “The Diseased and the Dead: Rinderpest, Meat and Veterinary Medicine in Bengal, 1850-1920″
Nikhar Gaikwad, Yale University, “Commercial Companies and Colonial Legacies”
10:45 – 12:15 – Panel VI: Identity and Community
Chair: Prof. William Mazzarella, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Chandani Patel, The University of Chicago, “Brown East Africans: The Writing of Precarious Genealogies”
Sanjeeta Aheibam, University of Hyderabad, “Poetry in a Time of Terror”
Julian Lynch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Music and Riots: The Violent Shaping of Communities and Communalism in Modern India”
12:15 – 1:30: Lunch for conference participants and faculty, Foster Hall, Room No: 103
1:30 – 2:30 – Panel VII: Transcending Borders
Chair: Dr. Tarini Bedi, Senior Research Associate and Associate Director of the South Asia Language and Area Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, The University of Chicago
Safoora Arbab, University of California, Los Angeles, “North West Frontier of India: The Creation of Borders and Pakhtun/Afghan Representations”
Dwaipayan Sen, The University of Chicago, “The Origins of Defeat: Caste Politics and Partition, 1945-47″
2:45 – 3:45 – Panel VIII: Rethinking Mughal Texts
Chair: Prof. Rajeev Kinra, Department of History, Northwestern University
Shankar Nair, Harvard University, “A Sufi Translation Theory?: Reconsidering Persian Translations of Hindu Sanskrit Texts in the Mughal Period”
Abhishek Kaicker, Columbia University, “The Emperor’s Right Hand Woman? Bibi Juliyana and the Mughal Harem in the Early Eighteenth Century”
4:15 – 5: 45: Keynote Address
Prof. Rosalind O’Hanlon, University of Oxford. “Moral opportunities and moral dangers: Maratha Brahman families and empire-building in eighteenth century north India”
Chair: Prof. Muzaffar Alam, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago
6:00: Reception, Swift Commons
For more information, please contact Arvind Elangovan.
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