Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are delighted to announce a virtual colloquium on “Interreligious
Interactions in South Asia” that will take place over Zoom from
April 3 to April 12, 2023 (15:00–16:30 GMT / 10:00–11:30 EST / 20:30–22:00 IST).
Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/94189387595?pwd=Q0hvNDZvYjhDUVZOTHkxSWxNVGIyQT09
Meeting ID: 941 8938 7595
Passcode: 181402
We envision our colloquium to be brainstorming sessions
for examining how interreligious interactions are analysed and theorised in diverse disciplines today, and in what ways historical sources and ethnographic data from South Asia elaborate such interactions. Our presenters have pre-circulated reading materials
that would be helpful in understanding their arguments. If you would like to consult these reading materials, please email:
trinbarua@gmail.com.
Please find the abstracts of our colloquium and the flyer
as attachments to this email.
April 3, 2023
Speaker: Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)
Title: Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches
to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal
April 4, 2023
Speaker: Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)
Title: A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh
Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic
April 5, 2023
Speaker: Kashhaf Ghani (Nalanda University)
Title: Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious
Interactions from South Asia
April 6, 2023
Speaker: SherAli Tarren
Title: Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
April 7, 2023
Speaker: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)
Title: Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice
in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs
April 12, 2023
Speaker: Shankar Ayillath Nair
Title: Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through
the Prism of the Persian Romance
We eagerly look forward to your participation in our
colloquium.
Sincerely,
Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)
Hina Khalid (University of Cambridge)
Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)