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A17-228
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Religious Encounters in Early Modern South Asia
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:00
PM
Venue: Convention Center-401 (Street Level)
Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University,
Presiding
Rahul Parson, University of Colorado
Encounters
and Reconciliations: "Tolerance" and (Im)partiality in Two
Jain Intellectual Lineages
Julie Vig, University of Toronto
Expressing Vīr Rasa: Religious and Literary Encounters between Khalsa Sikhs and Dadupanthi Nagas
Mark McLaughlin, College of William and Mary
Dargāhs and Samādhis: Reflections on the
Emergence of a Maharashtrian Hindu Tomb-Shrine
Tradition
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida
Religious
Others and Inter-faith Relations in Western India
A17-427
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Caste beyond Hinduism
Saturday - 5:30 PM-7:00
PM
Venue: Convention Center-Mile High 1A (Lower Level)
Julie Vig, University of Toronto,
Presiding
Elsa Marty, University of Chicago
Adivasi Christians and Contextual Theology
David Geary, University of British Columbia
“Awakened”
Villages: Indian Buddhism and the Metaphysics of Poverty at the Place of
Enlightenment
Mark Balmforth, Columbia University
Nāki's Death: Breaking Caste and Negotiating Accommodation in the American
Ceylon Mission
Responding:
Nathaniel Roberts, University of Göttingen
A18-125
Religion in South Asia Unit and Tantric Studies Unit
Theme: Bengali and Assamese Tantra
in Colonial and Contemporary Contexts
Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Venue: Convention Center-Mile High 1E (Lower Level)
Tony Stewart, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Keith Cantú, University of California,
Santa Barbara
From Basu to Vasu and Back Again: Śrīśacandra Basu’s Tantric
Legacy
Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College
The Legacy
of Tantra in the Troubled Life of a National Poet
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington
Clash of Om
Hari and Om Kring! Satra and Tantra Politics in
Assam
Carola Lorea, National University of Singapore
Apasampradāẏ: The Invention of Heterodoxy and Its
Repercussions among Low-Caste Religious Movements of Bengal
Responding:
Glen Hayes, Bloomfield College
Tantric Studies Unit Business Meeting:
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin
John Nemec, University of Virginia
A18-226
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: New Directions in the Study of South Asian Religions
Sunday - 1:00 PM-3:00
PM
Venue: Convention Center-105 (Street Level)
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University, Presiding
Nick Tackes, Columbia University
Mangalmaya's Medicine: Protap Chunder Mozoomdar as
Patient-Multiple
Rodney Sebastian, University of Florida
Constructing
the Manipuri Rasalilas: Agency, Power, and
Consensus
Catherine Hartmann, Harvard University
Faith and
Figuration in Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides
Responding:
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University,
Chicago
A18-427
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Religion and Aesthetics in Indo-Persian Literature
Sunday - 5:30 PM-7:00
PM
Venue: Convention Center-402 (Street Level)
Supriya
Gandhi, Yale University, Presiding
Peter Dziedzic, Harvard University
Shamas Faqir and His Symbolic Universe(s):
Discerning Religious Themes in Kashmiri Poetry
Shankar Nair, University of Virginia
Muslim
Dreams in Sanskrit and Greek: Encountering the Pre-Modern Other through
Islamic Notions of the Imagination
Ryan Brizendine, Yale University
Rasa and
Rapture: The Influence of Indian Literary Aesthetics on Sufi Practice in
South Asia
Responding:
Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
A19-121
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Mantras in South Asian Religions: Sound, Silence, and
Script
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Venue: Convention Center-Mile High 1F (Lower Level)
Marko Geslani, Emory University,
Presiding
Finnian
Moore Gerety, Yale University
Praṇava: Histories of the Sacred Syllable
Ellen Gough, Emory University
Picturing Oṃ in Jainism
Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University
Glossolalia
and the Many Voices in Buddhist Mantras
Supriya
Gandhi, Yale University
Om/Allah:
Mantras and Translation in Early Modern India
Responding:
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin
RISA Business Meeting:
Andrea Marion Pinkney, McGill University
Hamsa Stainton, McGill University
A20-105
Hinduism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Translating Texts, Transmitting Tradition: Continuity
and Change in Hindu Traditions
Tuesday - 8:30 AM-10:00
AM
Venue: Convention Center-Mile High 2A (Lower Level)
John Nemec, University of Virginia,
Presiding
Tamara Cohen, University of Toronto
Arjunopākhyāna: A Functional, Non-Authoritative Translation of
the Bhagavadgītā
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, Cornell University
Translation
in a Multilingual Context: The Mixture of Sanskrit and Tamil Languages in
Medieval South Indian Śrīvaiṣṇava Religious
Tradition
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz,
University of Illinois
Hinduizing Nepal’s Hindus: Making Modern Hinduism in Premodern Nepal
Nika Kuchuk, University of Toronto
The Limits
of Text and Tradition: Theosophy, Translation, and Transnational Vedanta in
the Fin-de-siècle
Responding:
Christoph Emmrich, University of Toronto
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