[INDOLOGY] full-day Madison ACSA symposium on Animal Subjects in South Asia Oct. 30

[Andrea Lorene Gutierrez]

Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting),


I'm pleased to invite all to join our full-day symposium, both in-person
and virtual (zoom link in conference app), at the Madison 2024 ACSA on *"Animal
Subjects in South Asia,"* co-organizers Andrea Gutierrez and Thomas
Trautmann.


For more information please contact me at andrea.gutierrez at austin.utexas.edu



Yours,

Andrea Gutierrez



*Animal Subjects in South Asia*


*Abstract*


Animals are intricately woven into the histories, ideologies, images, and
texts of South Asia. Likewise, human lives in South Asia have perennially
existed alongside non-human animals within shared ecologies. Recent decades
have been marked by the “animal turn” across the scholarly landscape, and
the introduction of animal studies into South Asian studies is already well
underway. This symposium radically centers animals in our study of South
Asia without decentering humans, exploring human understandings of specific
animals throughout the historical period, from deep history to the present
day.


The symposium dedicates more than half of our attention to one very
exceptional animal—the elephant—with the rest of our time reserved for
other animals in South Asia. Our research concerns animals as beings of
their own. At the same time, focusing on animals only aids our
understanding of human histories, stories, archaeologies, ethnographies,
and geographies.


*Schedule for Wednesday, Oct. 30*


*8:30-10:15  Human-Animal Relations: From Elephants to Pigeons*


Anu Karippal, “'Wildness', Conservation Discourse, and Cultural Elephants
of South India”

Muhammad Kavesh, “Rethinking Multispecies Hospitality in Rural Pakistan”

Sagnik Saha (virtual), “The Abject Animals: Dogs, Jackals and Donkeys in
Early Indian Imagination”


*Break 10:15-10:30am*


*10:30- 12:15 The Visual Record of Animals in South Asian History*


Chiara Policardi (virtual), “Śrī-Lakṣmī and Elephants: Investigating
Genesis and Valences of the Association, between Texts and Art”

Charlotte Gorant, “Elephant and cobra nāgas: Exploring ancient likenesses
of curved trunks and bodies in art”


*Lunch 12:15-1:45pm*


*1:45-3:30 Elephants through History: Understanding the Biological Animal,
Animal Management & Sovereignty and Kingship*


Thomas Trautmann, “Elephant science, old and new”

Andrea Gutiérrez, “Tusk-trimming within the Elephant Care Tradition (
*Gajaśāstra*) of Early South Asia”

Ali Anooshahr, “Aurangzeb’s Elephants”


*Break 3:30-3:45pm*


*3:45 - 5:30 Watery Beings, Fluid Identities: Animals Read through Buddhist
Materials & Āyurveda*


Lisa Brooks, “Unlikely Subjects: Leeches, Gender, and Personhood in Early
South Asian Medical Literatures”

Jahnabi Chanchani, “Making Animal, Making Buddha”

-- 
Dr. Andrea Gutiérrez
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Department of Asian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/asianstudies/faculty/alg3485
https://utexas.academia.edu/AndreaLoreneGutierrez
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