Workshop on Islamicate Culture in South Asia

[Dominik Wujastyk]

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Date: 09 March 2001 17:36 -0500
From: afroz taj <Taj at server.sasw.ncsu.edu>


The North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies and the
Triangle South Asia Consortium announce:
The First Workshop on Islamicate Culture in South Asia:
South Asian Islamic Aesthetics: Music and Literary Production
April 13, 14, and 15, 2001
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://www2.ncsu.edu:8010/tsac/islam.html

If you are interested in attending this Workshop, please send an
email message to John Caldwell (caldwell at unity.ncsu.edu).
Space is limited, so we will accept requests on a first come first
served basis until all spaces are full.

Program for Workshop on Islamicate Culture in South Asia
Topic for 2001:  South Asian Islamic Aesthetics -- Music and Literary
Production
North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies
Venue: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (4th floor)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 13-15, 2001

April 13, 2:00-5:00 pm. Poetry, Power and Place
  2:00 pm. Paul Losensky (Indiana University), "Building a Career:
Architecture in the Life and Poetry of Kalim Kashani"
  3:00 pm. Break
  3:30 pm. Nargis Virani (Washington University at St. Louis),
  "Pluralist or Garbled Poetics? The Mulamma?at of Jalal-al-Din Rumi"
  4:30-5:00 pm. Comment and Discussion: Shantanu Phukan

  April 14, 8:30 a.m.- 12:30 pm  Literary and Musical Genres in Local
Languages and Contexts
  8:30 am. F. Nalini Delvoye (École Pratique des Hautes Études and Centre
d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud, Paris),       "Dhrupad Songs in
Braj Language: Catering to the Taste of Indo-Persian Rulers in Medieval
India"
  9:30 am. Farina Mir (Columbia University), "Representations of Piety
  and Community in Late-nineteenth-century Punjabi Qisse"
  10:30 am. Break
  11:00 am. Christopher Lee (Iowa State University), "Traditional,
Progressive, Modern and Timely: Four discourses of and about Urdu poetry
in Varanasi, India."
  12:00 - 12:30 pm, Comment and Discussion: Frances Pritchett (Columbia
University)

  April 14, 2:15-5:15 p.m. Modern literary responses to saint cults
  2:15 pm. Farooq Hamid (University of Pennsylvania), "Hagiography
Continuing and Continued: The Case of a Medieval Chishti Sufi, Farid
ad-Din Ganj-i Shakar (d. 664/1265)"
  3:15 pm. Break
  3:45 pm. Kelly Pemberton (University of California at Berkeley),
"Shattering the Mirror: Urdu Literature, Reformist Discourses, and the
Shaping of Muslim Consciousness in the Sufi Milieu"
  4:45-5:15 pm, Comment and Discussion: Regula Qureshi (University of
Alberta)

  April 14, 8 p.m. A Concert of Hindustani light classical music by Jyoti
Swaroop Pande, featuring performance of marsiya and soz pieces.

  April 15, 9:00 a.m.- Noon. Muharram performance traditions in practice
  9:00 am. Amy Bard (Harvard University), "'He Made Me Able to Light Up
  the Gathering': Zahidah Baji and the Mediation of Music and Text in
Shi?i Majlis-e?aza"
  10:00 am. Break
  10:30 -12 pm  Workshop Wrap-up and Discussion: Carl Ernst


Dr. Afroz Taj
Assistant Professor
Hindi-Urdu Program, NCSU
Director of Public Programs, NC Center for South Asia Studies
http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/fl/faculty/taj/hindi/
919-515-9302 (office)
919-515-6981 (fax)
Room 138, 1911 Building
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature
North Carolina State University
Raleigh NC 27695

919-851-1119
102 Trinity Woods Dr.
Raleigh NC 27607

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