American Academy of Religion 2000
Annual Meeting
Nashville, Tennessee, November 18-21, 2000
The 2000 AAR/SBL Annual Meeting will be held November 18-21 at the Opryland Hotel &
Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. For information regarding
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2000 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM
Sessions of the Religion in South Asia Section of
the AAR
A27 - Saturday, November 18, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Linda Hess, Stanford University, Presiding
Theme: Satire and the Rhetoric of Reform
Donald R. Davis, Jr., Bucknell University
Satire As Apology: the Purusarthakutta of Kerala
Andrea Pinkney, Columbia University
Impropriety Duly Exposed: Religious Polemic and Reform in the Narmamala of Kshemendra
Joseph Schaller, Nazareth College of Rochester
The Legends of Raidas in Word and Song
Elizabeth L. Wilson, Miami University
Voluptuary As Vulture: The Didactic Use of Satire by Indian Buddhist Authors
Respondent:
Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University
A85 - Sunday, November 19, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Gerald J. Larson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Presiding
Theme: Subversive Ethics in the Hindu Tradition
James L. Fitzgerald, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Brahmins' Struggle for Status and Authority in the Mahabharata
Francis X. Clooney, Boston College
Mutual Subversions: The Encounter of Old and New in Srivaisnava Ethics
Lise F. Vail, Montclair State University
"Unlike a Fool He Is Not Defiled": Ascetic Purity and Ethics in the Samnyasa
Upanishads
Graham M. Schweig, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Meager Servant of the Servant: The Subversive Ethics of Bhakti in Caitanyaite
Vaishnavism
Arti Dhand, McGill University
Women, Brahmins, Dogs, and Dog-Eaters: Interpreting Dharma in the Mahabharata
Respondent:
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
[Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section]
A105 - Sunday, November 19, 2000
1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Westminster College, Presiding
Theme: The Contributions of Wendy Doniger: A Critical Appraisal
Panelists:
Linda Hess, Stanford University
Daniel R. Gold, Cornell University
John Earl Llewellyn, Southwest Missouri State University
Carl Olson, Allegheny College
Laurie L. Patton, Emory University
Sarah Caldwell, California State University, Chico
Respondent:
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
A129 - Sunday, November 19, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
John Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University, Presiding
Theme: Bridging Times: Politics of Memory and Myth in North India
Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Blood Speaks or Why Ganga Ma Drowned the Rajputs: Leatherworkers' Recollections
Lindsey Harlan, Connecticut College
Deploying the Martial Past: Strategic Scenarios in Rajput Hero Narratives
Peter Gottschalk, Southwestern University
Mahatma in Memory: Gandhi in Myth, History, and Group Memory
Christopher Lee, Illinois Wesleyan University
"A promise in the name of bearing witness": Urdu Poetry, Memory, and the
Construction of Muslim History in Varanasi, India
Respondent:
Tazim R. Kassam, Syracuse University
Business Meeting
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, and Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State University,
Presiding
[Religion in South Asia Section and Hinduism Group]
A163 - Monday, November 20, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Narrating the Normative: Hindu Moral Discourse in Art, Conversation,
Ritual, and Epic
Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Narrating a Gaudiya Viashnava Worldview on Temple Walls
Leela Prasad, Duke University
Dressing and Serving: Negotiated Proprieties in Stories of Public Meal Events in
Sringeri, South India
Robert Menzies, University of Iowa
Fecund Celibacy: Women's Control of Chastity in Vrat Katha
Aditya Adarkar, University of Chicago
Narrative Framing and Ethical Perspective: Karna's Choice in the Mahabharata
Edeltraud Harzer, University of Texas, Austin
The Motives behind Krishna's Advice to the Pandavas: Narrative Ethics in the
Mahabharata
Respondent:
Arti Dhand, McGill University
A214 - Monday, November 20, 2000
3:45 pm-6:15 pm
M. Whitney Kelting, St. Lawrence University, Presiding
Theme: Gendered Constructions in Jain Narrative Traditions
Steven D. Heim, University of Chicago
Gender in Medieval Jain Chronicles
Sherry Fohr, University of Virginia
Ascetics and Narratives about "Virtuous Women"
Anne Vallely, University of Toronto
Female Renunciation and the Terapanthi Moral Order
Madhurina Shah, University of Maryland, College Park
Seeking the Divine Within: Consciousness and Identity among Jain Laywomen
Respondent:
Paul Dundas, University of Edinburgh
A238 - Tuesday, November 21, 2000
9:00 am-11:30 am
Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College, Presiding
Theme: Through the Unorthodox Eyes of Yaksi(a)s and Yoginis: Fresh
Perspectives on Religion in South Asia
Padma Kaimal, Colgate University
Yoginis and Other Goddesses at the Kailasanath Temple in Kanchipuram
A. Whitney Sanford, Iowa State University
Yakshas on the Margin of Contemprary Braj Practice
Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point
Yakshi Management by Kerala Christian Priesthood or "Hitting the Nail on the
Head" and Other Methods of Non-Conversion
Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University
Identity and Divinity: Boundary-crossing Goddesses in Medieval Tamilnadu
Respondent:
Richard S. Cohen, University of California, San Diego
Revised: September 29, 2002
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