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Reception, Tradition, Canonization: Pasts and Presents in South Asia (March 5th)
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8:30-9:00Breakfast
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9:00-9:15Opening Remarks : Anand Venkatkrishnan
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9:15-11:00Panel 1: Performing Traditions
(Discussant: Anna Schultz)
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Sharvari Shastry
(University of Chicago)		From Seditious and Obscene to Traditional and Authentic: The Censorship and Canonization of Tamasha in Maharashtra
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Nilza Angmo
(Ambedkar University)		Translation Through Performance: The Buchen of Pin Valley, India
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Pranoo Deshraju
(University of Hyderabad)		Bringing Back the Melody: Remaking Popular Hindi Music for a World Audience
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Mohammad Zaki Rezwan
(Simon Fraser University)		The Art of Resistance: Exploring Rickshaw Art through the Mapping of Individual Film Reception in Bangladesh
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11:00-11:15Coffee Break
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11:15-1:00Panel 2: Tradition and Contestation
(Discussant: Wendy Doniger)
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Thalia Gigerenzer
(Princeton)		Coming of Age in the End Times
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
(JNU)		Technologies of Tradition: Notes on the Electric Illumination of Temples in Colonial India ( 1890- 1920)
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Firdaus Soni
(University of Hyderabad)		Contested Terrain of the Jatra in Deccan: the Fair as an Archive of Contingent Collectivities of Caste, Religion and Region
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Supurna Dasgupta
(University of Chicago)		Between Feminisms: Responding as Female Poets during the Global 1960s
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1:00-2:30Lunch
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2:30-4:15Panel 3: Reception and Remembering
(Discussant: Thibaut d'Hubert)
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Amanda Caterina Leong
(UC Merced)		The Princess Remembers: Representing Early-Modern South Asia Through the Humayunnama
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Rituparna Rana
(Paul Valery)		The ‘Postmemory’ of 2nd and 3rd Generation Partition Migrants: Oral Narratives as Alternative History of the 1947 Partition of India
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Shaahin Pishbin
(University of Chicago)		Remembering the Parrot of India: Distortions in the Canonization of Amir Khusraw
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Bhoomika Joshi
(Yale University)		Temples from Nowhere: Micro-Cartographies of Sacredness in the Indian Himalayas
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4:15-4:30Coffee Break
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4:30-6:00Keynote Speech
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Akshaya Mukul
(Journalist and Independent Researcher)		Crafting A Hindu Nation: Story of Gita Press
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Reception, Tradition, Canonization: Pasts and Presents in South Asia (March 6th)
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8:45-9:15Breakfast
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9:15-11:00Panel 1: Community Formation and Agents of Canonization
(Discussant: Sarah Pierce Taylor)
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Shubha Shantamurthy
(SOAS)		The Śivabhakta Pantheon as Proxy: The Role of Hagiography in Śaiva Community Formation in Premodern Deccan
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Jonathan Koshy Varghese
(EHESS)		The Littoral and Non Literal: The Many Imaginations of the Syrian Christians of Kerala
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Suchismito Khatua
(JNU)		Iswar Gupta and the Prabhākara Project: Constructing Archives and Conjuring Identities in Colonial Bengal, 1853-56
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Maria Amir
(SUNY Buffalo)		Generation Jugni: Mapping the impact of folklore in Pakistan's Aurat Marches
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11:00-11:15Coffee Break
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11:15-1:00Panel 2: Negotiating Political Traditions
(Discussant: Tori Gross)
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Felix Pal
(Australian National University)		Tracing the Banyan Tree: Rethinking Organisational Ties in the Many-Footed Hindu Right
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Rouf Ahmed Dar
(Kashmir University)		"Solidarity Without Conditions"; Interrogating the Politics of Solidarity within India towards Kashmir
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Shilpa Sharma
(Delhi University)		To project India on China: Government of India’s wartime propaganda in Chungking, 1942-1944
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Aruna Kharod
(UT Austin)		Instrumental Changes: Policy, Materiality, and Innovation in Contemporary Sitar-Making Traditions
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1:00-2:30Lunch
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2:30-4:15Panel 3: Forming and Transforming Knowledge
(Discussant: Andrew Ollett)
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Eric M. Gurevitch
(University of Chicago)		The Epistemology of Caste and the Force of Tradition: Views from the Deccan, 950-1050 CE
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Ayesha Sheth
(University of Pennsylvania)		‘For the Benefit of Everybody’ : Anthologisation and the Incorporation of ‘Desi’ Knowledge in the Sangitasiromani, c. 1428 CE
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Sonia Wigh
(University of Exeter)		‘ilm-i bāh to ‘ilm-i Kokā: Translating Early Modern South Asian Knowledge of Sex
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Kimberly Kolor
(University of Chicago)		Peoples of the Book', and Other Things: Strategic Muslim Historicities in Sri Lanka
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4:15-4:30Coffee Break
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4:30-6:00Keynote Speech
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Rosalind O'Hanlon
(University of Oxford)		Stealing Sacrifice: Canon Formation and Social Transgression in Eighteenth Century Banaras
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6:00-8:00Reception Dinner
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