The South Asian Sublime: Literature, Painting, and Music Across the Centuries

Join us for a special panel of speakers on "The South Asian Sublime: Literature, Painting, and Music Across the Centuries." This event is in honor of the retirement of Professor Rupert Snell, Director of the Hindi Urdu Flagship program. 

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Emilia Bachrach, High Point University - "The Prince of Braj in Urban Gujarat: Negotiating Geocultural Change in Pushtimargi Vaishnavism"
Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University - "The Long Life and Strange Death of Gujari"
Janice Leoshko, The University of Texas at Austin - "Drawing the Line: On Indian Representations by William Hodges (1747-1797)"

1:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Jishnu Shankar, The University of Texas at Austin - Hindi Poetry Reading
Michael J. Charlesworth, The University of Texas at Austin - "Reginald Farrer’s Sublime Verse Drama, Vasanta the Beautiful"
Jack Hawley, Columbia University - "From Ektar to Bahurupiya"
Ruth Vanita, University of Montana - "Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema"

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Rupert Snell, The University of Texas at Austin - "The Dance I Dance: Agyeya’s Poetic World"

 

Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies & South Asia Institute

Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 10:00am to 5:00pm

Will C. Hogg Building (WCH), 4.118 (Meyerson Conference Room)
120 INNER CAMPUS DR, Austin, Texas 78712

Event Type

Academics, Arts & Humanities, World & Culture

Departments

College of Liberal Arts

Target Audience

Students, Faculty

Website

http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/southas...

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