RISA Panels at the 2006 AAR Annual Meeting
RISA Panels at the 2006 AAR ANNUAL MEETING
A18-11
Comparative Studies in Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
CC-143A; View Map
John Hawley, Barnard College, Presiding
Theme: Powerful Objects: Materiality and Metonymy in Four Religious Communities
Andrea Pinkney, Columbia University
Form from Plenitude: Pras_da in Classical Sanskrit Literature
Anne Murphy, The New School
The Guru's Weapons
Carla Bellamy, Columbia University
Got Lob_n? Effacement, Abundance, and the Cross-Tradition Appeal of Indian
Islamic Healing Centers
Anya (Anna) Bernstein, New York University
Food for the Gods: The Matter of Sacrifice among the Shamans and Buddhists
of Buryatia
Responding:
Richard H. Davis, Bard College
A18-53
Arts, Literature, and Religion Section and Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
CC-144A; View Map
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College, Presiding
Theme: Popular Devotional Art in Modern India
Kathryn Hansen, University of Texas
"Mythologicals" and Devotion: Betab's Mahabharata in the Parsi
Theatre
Karline McLain, Bucknell University
Radiating a Spiritual Force: Indian Comic Books as Devotional Art
Susan Prill, Hamilton College
Representing Namdev in Punjabi Poster Art
Richard H. Davis, Bard College
Temple in a Frame
Natalie Marsh, Ohio State University
Digital Deities, Online Puja, and Virtual Pilgrimage: An Ongian Reading
Responding:
Stephen Inglis, Canadian Museum of Civilization
A19-14
Religion in South Asia Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
RW-Auditorium; View Map
Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin, Presiding
Theme: Literary Characters across Early South Asian Narrative Traditions
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
Who Was Shaunaka? A Literary Assessment
Brian Black, London University
Ambattha and Shvetaketu: Literary Connections between the Upanishads and
Early Buddhist Narratives
Sara L. McClintock, Emory University
Reading the Buddha as a Compassionate Trickster in Early Buddhist
Narrative Traditions
Jonathan Geen, McMaster University
Krishna and Jarasandha/Shishupala in the Hindu and Jain Traditions
Steven Lindquist, Concordia University, Montreal
Creating a Rshi: The Later Literary Life of Yajnavalkya
Responding:
Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
A19-109
Religion in South Asia Section
Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
CC-209C; View Map
Corinne Dempsey, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Presiding
Theme: Identity, Poetry, and Desire
Nathan McGovern, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Hinduism" in a "Non-Hindu" Context: A Study of
Brahma-Worship in Thailand
SherAli Tareen, Duke University
Reifying Religion While Lost in Translation: Mirza Mazhar Jan-i Janan
(d.1781) on the Hindus
Deven Patel, Seton Hall University
Monism, Mantra, and Poet-Mystics: Religious Readings of Courtly Epic
Poetry in South Asia
Shana Lisa Sippy, Columbia University
Disaporic Desires: Exploring the Discourse of Desire among Hindus in the
United States
A20-60
Religion in South Asia Section
Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
CC-144A; View Map
Shubha Pathak, University of Chicago, Presiding
Theme: Transgressing Traditions and Traditional Transgressions
Panelists:
Katherine Ulrich, University of Southern California
Scott A. Kugle, Leiden University
Robert Menzies, Albion College
William Elison, University of Chicago
Responding:
Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College
Business Meeting:
Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University, Presiding
Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding
A21-9
Religion in South Asia Section
Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
CC-204C; View Map
Emily Hudson, Emory University, Presiding
Theme: Sectarian Grammars: Agency and Agenda
David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota
Abhinavagupta's Monistic Saiva Philosophy of Grammatical Persons
Ajay Rao, University of Chicago
Grammar as Interpretation: Construing "Tat Tvam Asi" in
Visistadvaita and Dvaita
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Grammar That Is the Nectar of the Lord's Name
Anne Monius, Harvard University
Claiming Tamil and Sanskrit for the Bodhisattva
Responding:
Richard Salomon, University of Washington
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