Michigan-Lausanne International Seminar

[nas_ng at lms420.jsc.nasa.gov]

 I hope the Proceedings of this Seminar will be published just like
the 1979 Proceedings under the same title.

Best Wishes,
N. Ganesan

> From indology-request at liverpool.ac.uk Wed Sep 25 19:11:35 1996
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 01:12:00 BST
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> From: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
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> Subject: Michigan-Lausanne International Seminar

> 
> Dear Indology Members,
> 	I am pleased to announce the Program of the following
> Michigan-Lausanne International Seminar.  You are all welcome to attend.
> 	All the best,
> 			Madhav Deshpande
> 
> Michigan-Lausanne
> International Seminar
> 
> Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia:
> Evidence, Interpretation and Ideology
> 
> 25-27 October, 1996
> (All Sessions) Hussey Room, Michigan League (2nd Floor)
> The University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
> 
> Organized by:
> 	Professor Johannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne)
> 	Professor Madhav M. Deshpande (Michigan)
> 	Professor Thomas R. Trautmann (Michigan)
> 
> Oct 25, Friday, Morning Session
> 
> 8:30 - 9:00	Registration
> 9:00 - 9:15	Welcome  (Deshpande / Bronkhorst)
> 
> Chair : Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne, Lausanne)
> 
> 9:15 - 10:00	Thomas Trautmann (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"Constructing the Racial Theory of Indian Civilization"
> 
> 10:00 - 10:45	Hans H. Hock (University of Illinois, Urbana)
> 		"Through a glass darkly:  Modern Colonialist Attitudes vs.
> 		Textual and General Prehistoric Evidence on 'Race' and
> 		'Caste' in Vedic Indo-Aryan Society"
> 
> 10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
> 
> 11:00 - 11:45	Nicholas Allen (Oxford University, U.K.)
> 		"Hinduism as an Indo-European Ideology:  Cultural
> 		Comparativism and Political Sensitivities"
> 
> 11:45 - 12:15 	Open Discussion
> 
> 
> Lunch		12:15 - 2:00
> 
> 
> October 25, Friday, Afternoon Session
> 
> Chair : Michael Witzel (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
> 
> 2:00 - 2:45	Asko Parpola (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
> 		"Sanskrit kimpuru.sa and kinnara :  An Early Mixture of
> 		Aryan and Dravidian"
> 
> 2:45 - 3:30	Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
> 		Switzerland)
> 		"Is there an Inner Conflict of Tradition?"
> 
> 3:30 - 3:45	Coffee Break
> 
> 3:45 - 4:30	Gernot Windfuhr (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"A Note on Airyaman and Friendship"
> 
> 4:30 - 5:00	Open Discussion
> 
> 5:30 - 6:30 	Special Lecture (Buddhist Studies)
> 		by Professor Shoryu Katsura (Hiroshima University)
> 		"Naagaarjuna's Logic"
> 
> Dinner	
> 
> 
> *************************
> 
> 
> October 26, Saturday, Morning Session
> 
> Chair : Carla Sinopoli (University of Michigan)
> 
> 9:00 - 9:45	Shereen Ratnagar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
> 		"Does archaeology hold the answers?"
> 
> 9:45 - 10:30	Jim Shaffer (Case Western University, Cleveland)
> 		"Orientalism and cultural continuity in South Asian
> 		archaeology"
>  
> 10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
> 
> 10 :45 - 11:30	Michael Witzel (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)
> 		"The Linguistic Situation in Northern India during the
> 		Vedic Period"
> 
> 11:30 - 12:00	Open Discussion
> 
> Lunch
> 
> October 26, Saturday, Afternoon Session
> 
> Chair : Walter Spink (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 
> 2:00 - 2:45	Pashaura Singh (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"Revisiting the Arya-Samaj Movement"
> 
> 2:45 - 3:30	Sarah Caldwell (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"Whose Goddess?  Kaalii as Cultural champion in Kerala
> 		oral narratives"
> 
> 3:30 - 3:45	Coffee  Break
> 
> 3:45 - 4:30	Luis Gomez (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"Chinese Buddhist Understanding of 'Arya'"
> 
> 4:30 - 5:15	Madhav M. Deshpande (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"What to do with the Anaaryas?  Dharmic discourses of
> 		inclusion and exclusion"
> 
> 5:15 - 5:45	Open Discussion
> 
> Dinner 
> 
> 
> *************************
> 
> 
> October 27, Sunday, Morning Session
> 
> Chair : Peter Hook (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 
> 9:00 - 9:45	Franklin C. Southworth (University of Pennsylvania,
> 		Philadelphia)
> 		"Dravidian Place-Names in Maharashtra"
> 
> 9:45 - 10:30	Edwin Bryant (Columbia University, New York)
> 		"Linguistic Substrata and the Indo-Aryan Migration Debate"
> 
> 10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
> 
> 10:45 - 11:30	Jayakumar Manickam (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
> 		"The situation of Urdu speakers in the Tamil area"
> 
> 11:30 - 12:00	Open Discussion
> 
> 12:00 - 12:15	Concluding Business Matters
> 
> 
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