RISA Panels at the 2009 AAR Annual Meeting
A7-110
Theme:
Iconic Brands: Commodification, Circulation, and Reproduction in Modern
South Asian Religion
Saturday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Christian
Lee Novetzke, University of Washington, Presiding
Parna Sengupta, Stanford University, Astrology and Market Time in South
Asia
William Elison, Carleton College, Kaccha Traces, Pakka Brands: Icons, “Community,”
and Public Culture in Subaltern Mumbai
Shana Lisa Sippy, Columbia University, Belonging to the Brand: The Power
of Purchasing in Shaping American Hindus
Andy Rotman, Smith College, Brand-scendence in the North Indian Bazaar:
The Marketplace of Religion Versus the Religion of the Marketplace
Responding: Jamal J. Elias, University of Pennsylvania
A7-307
Theme: New
Directions in the Study of Religion in South Asia
Saturday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
John E. Cort, Denison University, Presiding
Peter Valdina, Emory University, Rajendralal Mitra and Modern Yoga
J. Barton Scott, Duke University, “Pope-Lila”: Religious Fraud in
Dayananda Saraswati’s Satyarth Prakash
James P. Hare, Columbia University, Print and Proliferation: Nabhadas's
Bhaktamal in the Colonial Context
Gil Ben-Herut, Emory University, Reconstruction of Religious Identities in
the Virashaiva Movement
Janet Gunn, University of Ottawa, Performing Gendered Religious Narratives
through Household Puja: Canadian Examples
Responding:
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Wellesley College
Brian A. Hatcher, Illinois Wesleyan University
Business
Meeting:
Robin Rinehart, Lafayette College, Presiding
A8-310
Theme:
Bhagavata-Purana, All in Seven Days: Text and Performance in the Saptah
Sunday - 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
Charles Hallisey, Harvard University, Presiding
John Hawley, Barnard College, Performing the Bhagavata: The Great
Prescription
Shrivatsa Goswami, Radha Raman Temple, The Bhagavata in Performance:
Celebrating Krishna as Text
Sangeeta Desai, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Audience is King:
Audience as Performers in Seven-day Ritual Narrations of the Bha-gavata
Pura-na
Responding: Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa
A9-208
Theme:
Vriksha-Dharma: Trees and Plants in Hindu Thought and Practice
Monday - 1:00 pm-3:30 pm
Laurie Louise Patton, Emory University, Presiding
Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa, Healing Mantras, Healing Plants,
Healing Ritual
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University, On Talking to Plants:
The Unique Instance of Loving Madness in the Vraja Gopikas
Amy L. Allocco, Emory University, "The Neem Tree is Parvati and the
Peepal Tree is Shiva": Tree Marriage as Ritual Remedy
David Haberman, Indiana University, Bloomington, Faces in the Trees
A9-308
Theme:
Cultural Transformations of Hinduism
Monday - 4:00 pm-6:30 pm
Pankaj Jain, Presiding
Elaine Fisher, Columbia University, The Implied Krishna: Cultural
Bilingualism and the Krishna Narrative in Jayasi’sKanhavat
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Transforming Narratives: The
Churning Story in India and Cambodia
Michele Verma, Rice University, Ethnomethods of Re-constituting Caribbean
Hinduism in the United States
Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University, Mirabai Comes to America: The
Transformation of a Sixteenth Century Hindu Woman into a Global Saint
Daniel Cheifer, Syracuse University, Virgin Comics: Marketing Hindu
Narrative Traditions as Global Popular Culture
Responding: Chandra Alexandre, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
A10-110
Theme:
Singing, Burning, Healing, Meditating: Women in Contemporary South Asian
Religions
Tuesday - 9:00 am-11:30 am
Leslie C. Orr, Concordia University, Presiding
Jennifer B. Saunders, Delaware, OH, Singing Bhajans, Performing Power:
Women’s Religious Practices in South Delhi
Kay K. Jordan, Radford University, Sati or Suicide?: Reports of Widow
Burnings in Contemporary India
Brian K. Pennington, Maryville College, The Widow and the Politician:
Women’s Status and the Pilgrimage Economy of Uttarkashi
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, University of Alabama, The Legacy of a Female
Sikkimese Buddhist Teacher: The Lineage of Pelling Ani Wangdzin and
Gendered Religious Experience in Modern Sikkim
Responding: Kathleen M. Erndl, Florida State University
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