Celebrating the Goldmans
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Fri, April 29, 2022
- 9:30 am: Opening Remarks by Prof. Sugata Ray (Interim Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Associate Professor, The History of Art Department)
- 9:50-11:05: Panel 1: Moderator: Deven M. Patel
- Kashi Gomez (Via Zoom): On Finding Adopted Daughters in a Bahuvrīhi
- Travis LaMar Smith: Veśyā and Veśa: Courtesans and the Matriarchal Household
- Jesse Knutson (Via Zoom): Babhūva tumulaṃ yuddham: The Syntax of Violence in the Rāmāyaṇa and the “tumula Verse-Type”
- 11:05-11:15: Break
- 11:15-12:30: Panel 2: Moderator: Adheesh Sathaye
- Michael Slouber: Coming Full Circle
- Vesna A. Wallace (Via Zoom): The Applications and Interpretations of the Kāvyadarśa in Inner Asia
- Chris Tompkins: The Importance of Gathering a Diversity of Manuscript Witnesses: Lessons learned from Preparing my Critical Edition of the Kālottara Tantra
- Sean Kerr: Buddhist Spins on Mindfulness of Breathing
- 12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch break
- 1:30-2:45 pm: Panel 3: Moderator: Michael Slouber
- 2:45-3: Break
- 3-4:15: Panel 4: Moderator: Luther Obrock
- Lisa Allette Brooks: Who or What is a Leech? (And Why or How Should You Care)
- Jenkin Leung: The Rāmāyaṇa in Literary Chinese Texts
- Lauren Bausch: Vedic ātmans
- 4:15-4:25: Break
- 4:30-5:45 pm: Reflections
- Professor Robert Goldman
- Dr. Sally Sutherland Goldman
- In Conversation with the Goldmans led by Professor Munis D. Faruqui (Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies)
- Private Dinner
Sat, April 30, 2022
- 9:30-10:45 am: Panel 5: Moderator: Lauren Bausch
- Ishaan Sharma: When Gods Play Messenger: Examining Krishna’s Theophany in the Kuru Court
- Luther Obrock: Like Some Rāmāyaṇa or Mahābhārata: Kalhaṇa on Narration and History
- Petra Lamberson: Identities in Situ: The Contested Sacred Sites of Nepal
- 10:45-10:55 am: Break
- 10:55-12:10 pm: Panel 6: Moderator: Travis LaMar Smith
- Deven M. Patel: Triśaṅku ṭīkā: An Argument for Sanskrit Literary Commentary as Translation
- Janet Um: Framing Daṇḍin: Author as Character in the Avantisundarī
- Adheesh Sathaye: How (Not) to Translate a Sanskrit Joke
- 12:10 pm: Lunch