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

Wed Oct 23 17:57:46 UTC 2024

Thank you for the information, Andrea, this is really helpful!  I've
registered for the 9 Nov sessions at Texas (the remaining days are
in-person only).  It's good to know about the U. Kent meeting.  What a
great subject!

Best,
Dominik

--
Prof. Dominik Wujastyk
University of Alberta

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:10, Andrea Lorene Gutierrez <
andreagutierrez at utexas.edu> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> 👍
>>
>> Dominik Wujastyk reacted via Gmail
>> <https://www.google.com/gmail/about/?utm_source=gmail-in-product&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=emojireactionemail#app>
>>
>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 13:01, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at austin.utexas.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth,
>>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
>>> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities
>>> and service."
>>> -- Collective Agreement
>>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf>
>>> 3.01
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>
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> https://utexas.academia.edu/AndreaLoreneGutierrez
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