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South Asian Languages and Civilizations
1010 E. 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 |
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8:30 a.m. Welcome & Coffee
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Keynote Address
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| 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Tom Trautmann, Marshall Sahlins Professor of Anthropology and History, University of Michigan: The Case Against Ancient Indian History |
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Criticism Panel
Discussant: Professor Farina Mir, The University of Michigan |
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| 10:15 a.m - 12:00 p.m. | Bali Sahota, The University of Chicago: Notes on Identity and Authority in Readings of Iqbal |
| Spencer Leonard, The University of Chicago: British Indian Antiquarianism and the Limitations of the Saidian Framework | |
| Ben Baer, Columbia Univeristy: Peasant Machine: Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and the Uncanny | |
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Lunch: 12:00-12:50
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Islam Panel
Discussant: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto |
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| 1:00 p.m. - 2: 45 p.m. | Manan Ahmed, The University of Chicago: Orientalism in the Local: Writing the History of Sindh from the Colonial to the Qaumi |
| Ovamir Anjum, The University of Wisconsin, Madison: Tradition and Modernity in the Interpretation of Islam | |
| Rajeev Kinra, The University of Chicago: Meet the New Orientalism: Same as the Old Orientalism? | |
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Coffee Break: 2:45 - 3:15
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Indology Panel
Discussant: Professor Sheldon Pollock, The University of Chicago |
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| 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. | Jesse Knutson, The University of Chicago: The Birth of the Anthology and the Social Life of Sanskrit Kavya |
| Ethan Kroll, The University of Chicago: The Failure of Analogy: Why Dharmashastra is not "just like" Other Systems of Law . . . | |
| Travis Smith, Columbia University: A Philologist's Fieldnotes, or, Theoretical Issues in the Study of the Varanasi Sthalapuranas | |
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Retire to the Pub after 5
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