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

Wed Oct 23 17:10:15 UTC 2024

Dear Dominik,

I am fully with you, Dominik, with the frustration of high rates for large
conferences, given the range of our interlocutors coming from Global South,
contingent, parttime, and all sorts of situations.

The Madison organizers had encouraged making ACSA panels virtual to allow
international participants a chance to join at the discounted international
virtual half price rate (especially thinking of places where it's
impossible to get a visa, to say nothing of travel costs). With this in
mind, our Animal Subject symposium has international participants,
including a grad student in India, and we are making our exploration
accessible to as many as we are able, and much more so than other
in-person-only symposia that I've seen promoted on this and other
listservs.

That said, it is frustrating to me, you, and others, and I would like to
find other ways around this.

To clarify Patrick's kind promotion of the Shared Ecosystems workshop,
*only* Saturday Nov. 9's 10am-1pm (US CST) outreach presentations are going
to be virtual with the zoom link Patrick provided below (info here:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/southasia/events/shared-ecosystems-animals-humans-the-environment-in-south-asia-3
). Even when there is overlap of participant speakers in common between
these two events, they are presenting entirely different work (and
sometimes on different animals! ;) ) for each of the events.

As a consolation, I can also offer another freely accessible online event
in just 2 days (Friday) where I'll be presenting different, older work of
mine (on vyākaraṇa and navyanyāya discussions of animal speech). The other
presenters are not Indological in nature:
https://research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fables/events-calender/

Thanks for this forum's continued support of all activities Indological in
nature and for promoting free and open access to all,
Andrea

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Dominik Wujastyk reacted via Gmail
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> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 13:01, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at austin.utexas.edu>
> wrote:
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>> An expanded version of this will be held on Nov 7-9 at the University of
>> Texas. And it is free to the public. Try this zoom link:
>> https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcuuvpz4vG9Go9c7-X3ytCF9fP250r1nP#/registration
>>
>> Patrick
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>> On Oct 21, 2024, at 4:41 PM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds great, but is only "open to registered conference attendees".
>> Registration is US$260.
>>
>> --
>> Prof. Dominik Wujastyk
>> University of Alberta
>>
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>> 3.01
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>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 13:20, Andrea Lorene Gutierrez via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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-- 
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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