Dear All, This year, the American Academy of Religion’s Mahābhārata and Classical Hinduism Seminar will be held virtually this year. The schedule is below and all times are Central Standard Time (i.e. Texas time). If you would like access to the papers, which will be circulated in advance, please join our email list using this link: https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/aar-mbh <https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/aar-mbh>
SCHEDULE
AV20-434 Saturday, November, 20 5:00 PM-6:30 PM (Virtual)
Session: Alf Hiltebeitel’s Legacy and the Literary-Critical Method
Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding
Brian Collins, Ohio University
“Epic” Scholarship: Reckoning with Alf Hiltebeitel’s Contributions to the Study
of the Mahābhārata
Joydeep Bagchee, Independent Scholar
The Mahābhārata as Literature: Hiltebeitel’s “Literary Turn” at 20
Vishwa Adluri, Hunter College
Fathers and Sons: Deconstructing Paternity and Engendering Literature
AV21-416 Sunday, November 21, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM (Virtual)
Session: Multifarious Mahābhārata Methods
Arti Dhand, University of Toronto, Presiding
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University
The doctrine of vyakti or emergence in the Mahābhārata
Simon Winant, UGent
Redemption or Death: Jain Reinterpretations of the Slaying of Kīcaka
Andrzej Babkiewicz, University of Warsaw
Sacred, mundane and religious geography of the Mahābhārata
Best,
Assoc. Prof. Brian Collins
Department Chair and Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and
Philosophy
Author, The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma
<http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6920-the-other-rma.aspx> (SUNY Press, 2020)
Editor, Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence, and Cinematic Fears in India
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bollywood-horrors-9781350143173/> (Bloomsbury
Academic, 2021)
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