To celebrate the voices and visions of early India’s religions so carefully chronicled by Davis in this book and throughout his learned, generous, and scintillating career, to honor Davis’ own inimitable voice as well as the growing chorus of interest in South Asian Humanities at Yale University, this symposium brings together a mandala of his teachers, students, and colleagues to facilitate encounter, interaction, debate, critique, and mutual learning—the very values Davis prizes in the lives of the religions he studies and in the academic communities he has helped foster.
“Come and see,” as the Buddha liked to say!
Organized by Charlotte Gorant and Sonam Kachru
Program
Friday, November 8th
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
8:30 - 9:15 AM
Opening Remarks - Ron Inden (University of Chicago)
9:15 - 10:00 AM
Daud Ali (University of Pennsylvania)
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM
Leslie Orr (Concordia University)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Charlotte N. Gorant (Columbia University)
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Lunch
4:15 - 5:15 PM
Keynote by Richard Davis (Bard College) - "Bhagavan Manibhadra: What a Historian 'Has' and 'Has Not'"
5:15 PM
Dinner
Saturday, November 9th
8:00 - 8:30 AM
Breakfast
8:30 - 9:15 AM
John Cort (Denison College)
9:15 - 10:00 AM
Nabanjan Maitra (Bard College)
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM
Subhashini Kaligotla (Columbia University)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Charlie Hallisey (Harvard University)
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 PM
Kristin Scheible (Reed College)
2:45 - 3:30 PM
Akira Shimada (SUNY New Paltz)
3:30 - 3:45 PM
Break
3:45 - 4:00 PM
Jack Hawley (Barnard College)
4:15 - 5:00 PM
Concluding Remarks - Richard Davis (Bard College)
5:30 PM
Harbour Room
Book Launch and Reception - Omni Hotel
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With kind regards,
Charlotte and Sonam