2008 Burdick-Vary Symposium:
Speakers:
Susan Friedman
Partha Chatterjee
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Vinay Dharwadker
Chris Chekuri
V. Narayana Rao
David Shulman
Satya P. Mohanty
Charles Hallisey
Aparna Dharwadker
Rama Sundari Mantena
Schedule:
Friday December 5. Morning
9:00 Keynote address: Susan Friedman, Director: The Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison: “Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of Empires and New Nations”.
10:00 Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University: “Rammohan Roy and Early Modern Anti-Absolutism in India.”
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles: “Historian-Scribes and the World of Early Modern South Asia.”
Friday December 5. Afternoon
2:00-3:00 Vinay Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Modernities, Modernisms, and Postcolonial Literatures: Some Theoretical Issues in the Indian Context”
3:00 Chris Chekuri, San Francisco State University: “Reliable and ‘Spurious’ Inscriptions: Modernity, History, and the Precolonial Past of Vijayanagara.”
4:00- 4:15 Coffee break
4:15 V. Narayana Rao, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Something was different in 16th century Andhra. Was it Modernity?”
Saturday: December 6. Morning
9:00 David Shulman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: “Rethinking the Imagination in Sixteenth-century South India: Notes on Ratnakheta Srinivasa Diksita’s Bhavana-purushottama.”
10:00 Satya P. Mohanty: “Alternative Modernities and Medieval Indian Literature: The Oriya Lakshmi Purana as Radical Pedagogy.”
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15 Charles Hallisey: “The Familiarity of the New: Literary Cultures and the Modern in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Sri Lanka.”
Saturday, December 6. Afternoon
2:00 Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Pre-Modern, Modern, Anti-Modern: The Contested Teleologies of Indian Theatre.”
3:00 Rama Sundari Mantena, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Conceptualizing Modernity in Nineteenth-century Andhra.”
4:00-4:15 Coffee Break
4:15 Roundtable: General Discussion, Thongchai Winichakul, Teju Olaniyan, Donald Davis, Jr., All participants
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Center for South Asia, and the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Sciences.