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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
9:30–11:00 AM (EST)
Roundtable and Book Forum
Vidya Dehejia, The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855-1280 (Princeton, 2021).
Daud Ali (U-Penn), Nachiket Chanchani (U-Michigan), and Sugata Ray (UC Berkeley) in conversation with Vidya Dehejia (Columbia) on Temple Cultures in Premodern Worlds.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
9:30 AM (EST)
Welcome and Introduction
Subhashini Kaligotla (Yale) and Hannah Baader (KHI)
10:00 AM (EST)
Alcohol Culture and Indian Temples
James McHugh (USC-Dornsife)
Break
11:00 AM (EST)
Yadava Temples, Before and After
Pushkar Sohoni (IISER Pune)
11:45 AM (EST)
The Mughal Temple in Banaras
Madhuri Desai (Penn State)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
9:00 AM (EST)
A Buddhist Bhairava? Kṛtanagara’s Icons against the Backdrop of Pan-Asian Late Tantric Buddhism (13th–14th Centuries CE)
Andrea Acri (EPHE)
9:45 AM (EST)
Self-Reflecting & Reflecting the Self in the Other: Mirrors in Hindu Iconography and Rituals
Naman Ahuja (JNU Delhi)
Break
10:45 AM (EST)
Temples and Urban Experience in Premodern South Asia: Monuments for the City
Katherine Kasdorf (DIA)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
9:00–10:30 AM (EST)
Indian Textiles for Island Taste – Cloth in Early Indian Ocean Trade
Ruth Barnes, Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art
Yale University Art Gallery
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10:45 AM–12:15 PM (EST)
Workshop: Digital Approaches to Temple Environments
Divya Kumar-Dumas (ISAW), Mohit Manohar (Yale), Pushkar Sohoni (IISER-Pune)
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
9:00 AM (EST)
Commensurable Cosmologies and Cosmographies in Sultanate Deccan
Emma Flatt (UNC)
9:45 AM (EST)
Seeing Double: The Tantrāloka, the Bṛhadīśvara Temple and the History of Medieval Śaivism
Whitney Cox (U-Chicago)
Break
10:45 AM (EST)
Heaven is a Gopura
Anna Seastrand (U-Minnesota)
11:30 AM (EST)
Written in Stone: Negotiating Space and Religious Identity
Julie Hanlon (U-Chicago)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
9:00 AM (EST)
The Stupa at Sopara: Looking Beyond the Buddhist Remains
Pia Brancaccio (Drexel)
9:45 AM (EST)
Landscape as Temple: Ideologies of Food, Water, and Irrigation in Middle Period Southern India
Kathleen Morrison (U-Penn)
Break
10:45 AM (EST)
Remaking Konark in the 20th Century: Postcolonial Revivalism and the Troubling Persistence of India’s Plastic Past
Tamara Sears (Rutgers)
11:30 AM (EST)
Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Richard Davis (Bard)