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

Thu Oct 24 05:55:47 UTC 2024

The following recent book might be of interest in this context:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Conversations_with_the_Animate_Other.html?id=VdDYEAAAQBAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, 11:28 pm Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY, <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

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