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
  • Priya Kothari: On the Politics of Preaching Stories of Krishna in Gujarat
  • Kristi Wiley: Vidyādharas in the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki and the Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra of Hemacandra
  • Alexandra Ciolac: Illustrating a laghukāvya: Jain Illuminated Manuscripts of the Bhaktāmara Stotra
• 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