Dear colleagues,
if you are in the area, we'd be happy to welcome you at the
workshop
date: 2.-3.7.2018
location: Heinrich Zimmer Lesesaal, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
9:30-10:00 William Sax (Director of the South Asia Institute): Welcome
Ute Hüsken: Introduction
Session 1.1
Chair: Rahul Mukherji (South Asia Institute)
10:00-10:45 Amy Langenberg (Eckerd College, Florida)
Modalities of Female Agency at Peace Grove Institute, Lumbini, Nepal
10:45-11:30 Ute Hüsken (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Tradition, Innovation, and Resistance? Training Girls in Vedic Rituals
Session 1.2
Chair: Astrid Zotter (AdW Heidelberg)
12:00-12:45 Antoinette E. DeNapoli (Texas Christian University)
"The Satis are Rising!" A Female Guru's Quest for Gender-Based Justice in Contemporary India
Session 2.1
Chair: Jörg Gengnagel (Würzburg University)
14:00-14:45 Priyanka Ramlakhan (University of Florida,
Gainesville)
Hindu Women’s Ritual Agency in Trinidad
14:45-15:30 Valeriya Gazizova (Cambridge University)
Female religious specialists in Kalmykia: custodians or reformers of traditional cosmology?
Session 2.2
Chair: Michael Radich (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies)
16:00-16:45 Elena Valussi (Loyola University Chicago)
Gender difference and gender equality for Buddhist women in early 20th century China
16:45-17:30 concluding discussion of day 1
Session 3.1
Chair: Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies)
10:00-10:45 Tarini Bedi (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Body-Politics and the Gendered Politics of Hindu Militancy: Shiv Sena Women and Political Agency in Western India
10:45-11:30 Iselin Frydenlund (MF Norwegian School of Theology)
Buddhist radicalism: a vehicle for female empowerment?
Session 3.2
Chair: NN
12:00-12:45 Shefali More (Heidelberg University)
Women’s rights to enter in places of Hindu worship
Session 4.1
Chair: Hans Harder (South Asia Institute)
14:00-14:45 Martin Seeger (University of Leeds)
Female Buddhist practitioners in late 19th and 20th century Thailand and the path to awakening
14:45-15:30 Vasudha Narayanan (University of Florida, Gainesville)
Sharing Bhakti, Singing Devotion: Women Teachers and Narrative Exponents in the Hindu Diaspora
Session 4.2
Chair: Borayin Larios (EHESS/South Asia Institute)
16:00-16:45 Caroline Starkey (University of Leeds)
Buddhist Practice vs Feminist Politics? British Buddhist Women Navigating Gender Equality, Inequality, and the spaces in-between
16:45-17:30 concluding discussion of day 2
-- Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken Head of the Department Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology) South Asia Institute Heidelberg University Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 69120 Heidelberg http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/mitarbeiter/huesken/huesken.php