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

Thu Oct 24 07:36:57 UTC 2024

Less recent but very rich is the following:
Penser, dire et représenter l’animal dans le monde indien, ed. Nalini BALBIR & Georges-Jean PINAULT, Paris : Librairie Honoré Champion (Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Sciences historiques et philologiques, Tome 345), 2009.

For the table of contents, see the contribution of Claudine BAUTZE-PICRON (the given date of 2008 is the one of the proof, not the final one) :
https://www.academia.edu/19604953/Antagonistes_et_compl%C3%A9mentaires_le_lion_et_l_%C3%A9l%C3%A9phant_dans_la_personnalit%C3%A9_du_Buddha

Le 24 oct. 2024 à 07:55, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> a écrit :

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<mailto: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

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:10, Andrea Lorene Gutierrez <andreagutierrez at utexas.edu<mailto: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<mailto:wujastyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 13:01, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at austin.utexas.edu<mailto: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<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:

Sounds great, but is only "open to registered conference attendees".  Registration is US$260.

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University of Alberta

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 13:20, Andrea Lorene Gutierrez via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info<mailto: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<mailto: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”

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Department of Asian Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

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