[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Lives of Indian Religions event at Yale for Richard H. Davis (Nov 8th-9th, 2024)

[Suchandra Ghosh]

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From: Charlotte Noelle Gorant <cg2962 at columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Subject: Lives of Indian Religions event at Yale for Richard H. Davis (Nov
8th-9th, 2024)
To: <indology-owner at list.indology.info>


Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to an in-person event celebrating Richard H.
Davis at Yale (Friday, November 8 - Saturday, November 9, 2024). Follow
this link
<https://macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/events/2024-11/lives-indian-religions-symposium>
for
the full schedule and registration.

The Lives of Indian Religions event celebrates the publication of *Religions
of Early India: A Cultural History*
<https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199269/religions-of-early-india>
and
the career of its author, Richard H. Davis (see below).

In this ambitious, wide-ranging, and ground-breaking work, Richard H. Davis
offers a new history of India’s myriad religious cultures that spans two
thousand years, from 1300 BCE to 700 CE. Davis recounts this history of the
religions we now know (such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism) and other,
often unnamed religions that can be classified as “folk” or “popular”
religions, through voices—voices recorded in hymns, poems, songs, didactic
stories, epic narratives, scientific treatises, and theological discourses,
as well as voices that speak through material remains, whether monumental
sculptures or tiny terracotta figurines of nameless goddesses.

To celebrate the voices and visions of early India’s religions so carefully
chronicled by Davis in this book and throughout his learned, generous, and
scintillating career, to honor Davis’ own inimitable voice as well as the
growing chorus of interest in South Asian Humanities at Yale University,
this symposium brings together a mandala of his teachers, students, and
colleagues to facilitate encounter, interaction, debate, critique, and
mutual learning—the very values Davis prizes in the lives of the religions
he studies and in the academic communities he has helped foster.

“Come and see,” as the Buddha liked to say!

Organized by Charlotte Gorant
<https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/charlotte-gorant> and Sonam Kachru
<https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/people/sonam-kachru>


Program

Friday, November 8th


8:00 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks - Ron Inden (University of Chicago)

9:15 - 10:00 AM

Daud Ali (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Tea Break

10:30 - 11:15 AM

Leslie Orr (Concordia University)

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Charlotte N. Gorant (Columbia University)

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Lunch

4:15 - 5:15 PM

Keynote by Richard Davis (Bard College) - "Bhagavan Manibhadra: What a
Historian 'Has' and 'Has Not'"

5:15 PM

Dinner


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Saturday, November 9th


8:00 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 AM

John Cort (Denison College)

9:15 - 10:00 AM

Nabanjan Maitra (Bard College)

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Tea Break

10:30 - 11:15 AM

Subhashini Kaligotla (Columbia University)

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Charlie Hallisey (Harvard University)

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 - 2:45 PM

Kristin Scheible (Reed College)

2:45 - 3:30 PM

Akira Shimada (SUNY New Paltz)

3:30 - 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 - 4:00 PM

Jack Hawley (Barnard College)

4:15 - 5:00 PM

Concluding Remarks - Richard Davis (Bard College)

5:30 PM

Harbour Room

Book Launch and Reception - Omni Hotel

Contact:

south.asia at yale.edu



With kind regards,

Charlotte and Sonam
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