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Thursday September 13, 2007
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4:00 – 6:00 pm |
Registration (Kellogg Center Lobby)
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| 6:30 |
Dinner & Leisure |
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Friday September 14, 2007 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Inaugural Session |
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Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introductions
Selva J.
Raj, Albion College |
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Greetings from Albion College
Dr. Donna Randall, President, Albion College |
| SESSION I |
EMBODIED BHAKTI |
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Chair: Tracy Coleman, Colorado College
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| 9:30-10:00 |
The Bodies of
Medieval Female Mystics: A Tamil Case-study
Karen Pechilis, Drew University |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament:
Marking Emotion in a Messenger
Poem of Medieval South India
Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore
College
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Embodying Bhakti: Fashioning Devotional Bodies
Barbara A. Holdrege, University
of California-Santa Barbara |
| SESSION II: |
EMBODYING THE FEMININE DIVINE
Chair: Lars Fogelin, Albion
College |
| 11:30- 12:00 |
The Suicide Bomber Becomes a Goddess: Women’s Bodies
Sacrificed in Sri Lanka
William Harman, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga |
| 12:00 noon |
Lunch |
| 1:00-1:30 |
Maataa Shakti: Embodying Mary as
Divine Feminine in Tamil Nadu
Kristin Bloomer, University of Chicago |
| SESSION
III |
TANTRIC RITUAL AND THE BODY
Chair: Paul Younger, McMaster University |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Bodily Protection and Physical Harm in Sri Vidya Temple Setting
Sudarshan Durayappah, University of Toronto |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Yogic Gestures and Radical Modes of Being: The Bodily
Unsealing of the Other in Abhinavagupta’s Trika Savisim
Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College |
| SESSION
IV |
ENCASING THE TRANSCENDENT
Chair:
Bindu Madhok, Albion College |
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2:30-3:00 |
Body in the Vedanta of Ramanuja
K. R. Sundararajan, St. Bonaventure University |
| 3:00 -3:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Atman and the Body: A Religio-Medical
View
Anthony Cerulli, Transylvania
University |
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4:00-4:30 |
The Advent of the Idea of the Buddha as Embodied
in his Gnosis in
the Early Common Era, as Seen in
Prajñāpāramitā and Sarvâstivāda
Texts and in Reliquary Inscriptions
Michael Radich, Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand |
| 4:30-4:45 |
Break |
| SESSION V |
CHANGING BODIES IN TIME Chair:
Ronney Mourad, Albion
College |
| 4:45-5:15 |
Picnics and Pilgrims, Poses and
Prayers: Sanctification, Desanctification
and Resanctification at Elephanta Island
Karline McLain, Bucknell University |
| 5:15-5:45 |
The Body in Jain Meditation
Sunil Goonasekera, Bowdoin
College |
| 5:45-6:15 |
Imagining the Body in Parts: Yoga
in English in Tamil Nadu
Laurah E. Klepinger-Mathew, Syracuse University |
| 6:30 pm |
Dinner &
Leisure |
| 7:30 |
Movie: Namesake (Optional) |
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Saturday September 15, 2007 |
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7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| SESSION VI |
NEGOTIATING RELIGION THROUGH PUBLIC DISPLAY
AND SPECTACLE
Chair:
Mark Soileau, Albion College |
| 9:00-9:30 |
“Islamizing” South Asia: Dargah
Culture, Ritual Creativity and
Bodily Practice
Susan Schomburg, Bates
College |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Bodies of Sufi
Saints as Texts Beyond Religion: Hindu and Muslim
Readings of Islamic Healing
Rituals in Hyderabadi Dargah-s
Eric Rothgery, Eckerd
College |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
The
Kumpitusevai Tradition: A Ritual Leveling of Differences?
Selva J. Raj, Albion College |
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11:00-11:30 |
Religious Bodies on Display: Religious Processions in the South
Asian Diasporas
Knut A. Jacobsen, University
of Bergen, Norway |
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SESSION VII |
WOMEN, ASCETICISM, AND SEXUALITY
Chair: Trisha Fransen,
Albion College |
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11:30-12:00 |
Fruitful Austerity: Embodied Devotion
in Hindu Women's Vrata
Performances
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola
University Chicago |
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12:00 noon |
Lunch |
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1:00-1:30 |
Regulating Women’s Bodies in Indian Buddhist Canonical
Literature
Carol Anderson,
Kalamazoo College |
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SESSION VIII |
WOMEN, BLOOD, AND IMPURITY
Chair: Shreena Gandhi,
Kalamazoo College |
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1:30-2:00 |
A Paternal Mother Reborn Bloodlessly: A Feminist Reading
of Angulimala’s
Conversion Narratives
Liz Wilson, Miami University
in Ohio |
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2:00-2:30 |
Privilege and Bodily Danger at a North American Hindu
Temple: The Mixed Messages of
Ritual Power for (Menstruating) Women
Corinne Dempsey, University
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
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2:30-3:00 |
Bodily Poiesis: Gendered
Constructions of Tradition in Nitya
Ghar Puja
Janet Gunn, University of
Ottawa |
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3:00-3:30 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION IX |
SYMBOLIC AND MYTHIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE
BODY
Chair: Jocelyn McWhirter, Albion College |
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3:30-4:00 |
The Bodily Form and Narrative
Ethics in the Sarasvati Purana
Elizabeth Mary Rohlman,
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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4:00-4:30 |
Vigrahas and Mūrtis: Observations
on the Bodies of the Gods in the
Māhābhārata
Kendall Busse, University of
California-Santa Barbara |
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4:30-5:00 |
From Embodiment to Dismemberment: Bodies and Weapons
in the Dasam Granth
Robin Rinehart, Lafayette
College |
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5:00-5:30 |
This
Body—inside and outside—is a Stūpa-Prasada
Hudaya Kandahjaya, Numata Center for
Buddhist Translation and
Research |
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5:30-6:00 |
Business Meeting |
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6:30 |
Dinner & Leisure |
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Sunday
September 16, 2007 |
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7:30-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
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SESSION X |
DANCE AND BODILY PERFORMANCE
Chair: Jennifer Chapman, Albion College |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Dancing
Disjunctures: Memory, Embodiment, and a Devadasi
Community in Modern Tamilnadu
Davesh Soneji, McGill
University |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Enacting Body, Expressing Tradition:
Movement of Identity in Mohiniattam
George Pati, Valparaiso
University |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Controlling the Body, Constructing
the Self: Corporeality and
Selfhood through the Lens of Performance in South India
Harshita Mruthinti, Emory
University |
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11.00
-12:00 noon |
Lunch & Departure |
