RISA Panels at the 2005 AAR Annual Meeting
RISA Panels at the 2005 AAR ANNUAL MEETING
A19-111
Religion in South Asia Section
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
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Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Rethinking Religion and Aesthetics in South Asia
Emily Hudson, Emory University
The Aesthetics of the Abandoned Wife: Ethics and the Poetics of Suffering
in the Dicing Scene of the Mahabharata
Ajay Rao, University of Chicago
Rama as King, Rama as God: Valmiki's Epic in Courtly and Temple Spheres
Katherine C. Zubko, Emory University
Casting Bhakti Rasa in an Ethical Role: Performed Aesthetics and the
Disruption of Religious Categories in Bharata Natyam
Guy Leavitt, University of Chicago
Cosmic Drama and Dramatic Cosmos: Tracing the Rapprochement between
Saivism and Aesthetics in Medieval Kashmir
Tony K. Stewart, North Carolina State University
Emotion Thrice-Abstracted: The "Vaisnava" Poetry of Rabindranath
Responding:
Anne Monius, Harvard University
A20-11
Religion in South Asia Section
Sunday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
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Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
Theme: Post-Hindutva?
Purushottama Bilimoria, University of New York, Stony Brook
The Pseudo-Secularization of Hindutva and Its Campaign for Uniform Civil
Codes
Kalyani Devaki Menon, DePaul University
Hindutva at the Margins of the State: Hindu Nationalism and Social Work
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University
Sanskrit in India: Beyond the Monochrome
Shana Lisa Sippy, Columbia University
Presence, Absence, and Resemblance: Finding and Interpreting Hindutva in
Northern California
Responding:
J. E. Llewellyn, Southwest Missouri State University
Business Meeting:
Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University, Presiding
A20-109
Religion in South Asia Section and Islamic Mysticism Group
Sunday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
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Qamar-ul Huda, Arnold, MD, Presiding
Theme: Sufi Music: Poetics and Performance in South Asian Qawwali
Scott A. Kugle, Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World
From Baghdad to Brindaban: Erotic and Spiritual Love in Qawwali
Performance
Homayra Ziad, Yale University
"I Emerge from Myself Like a Melody": Khv®°j®°h Mir Dard and
the Art of Sama' in Eighteenth-Century Delhi
Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University
A "Proving Ground" for Spiritual Mastery: The Chishti Sabiri
Musical Assembly
James R. Newell, Vanderbilt University
Unseen Power: Aesthetic Dimensions of Symbolic Healing in Qawwali
Responding:
Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
A21-13
Religion in South Asia Section
Monday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
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Kumkum Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding
Theme: The Prescribed and the Permissible: Articulations of Sastra in Indian Literary and Oral Narrative, Film, and the Performed Arts
Ruth Vanita, University of Montana
Together in Life after Life: Shastraic Ideas of Marriage and Rebirth, and
Same-Sex Couple Suicides in Modern India
Leela Prasad, Duke University
"For Shastra's Sake..!" Idioms of Legitimacy in the Plural Moral
Worlds of Narrative
Ronald Inden, University of Chicago
Breaking the National Rules for Entertainment in Film
Joan Erdman, Columbia College, Chicago, and University of Chicago
Challenging Choreographies and Citing Shastra in Indian Dance
Responding:
Velcheru Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin, Madison
A21-61
Religion in South Asia Section
Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
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Joseph Walser, Tufts University, Presiding
Theme: Money Problems: Money, Wealth, and Religion in South Asia
Panelists:
Douglas Osto, SOAS, University of London
Leah Renold, University of Virginia
Amy C. Bard, Columbia University
Ami Shah, University of California, Santa Barbara
M. Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University
Selva, J. Raj, Albion College
Responding:
Richard H. Davis, Bard College
A21-109
Religion in South Asia Section and Hinduism Group
Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
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Michael C. Linderman, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
Theme: Dharma and the Sastras: The "Religious" and the "Secular" in Hindu Scholasticism
Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University
Punishment and Expiation
Ethan Kroll, University of Chicago
Early Modern Sastric Views on the Legal Principle of Svatva
Timothy C. Cahill, Loyola University, New Orleans
Indian Literary Critics on "Dharma"
Donald R. Davis, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hinduism as a Legal Tradition
Responding:
Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas, Austin
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