“Categories and Comparisons” in South Asian Religious History

“Categories and Comparisons”

2nd Annual Graduate Workshop on Reading, Writing, and Teaching South Asian Religious History

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

MN 3230, University of Toronto Mississauga

The graduate workshop will take place at UTM on Wednesday and transportation will be provided from and back to JHB. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided to all participants.

Workshop Schedule: Grad Workshop—Oct 2

9:00am-9:30am: Light breakfast and opening remarks

MORNING SESSION: FACULTY PRESENTATIONS

9:30am-10:45am: Dr. Ayesha Irani, University of Massachussetts Boston, “Translation and the Semiotic Theory of Religion”

10:45am-12:00pm: Dr. Frank Korom, Boston University, “Whither Comparison?: The Ups and Downs of a Much Maligned Method””

12:00pm-1:15pm: Dr. Tony Stewart, Vanderbilt University, “The Tales of Jaban Haridas: A Discourse Analysis”

AFTERNOON SESSION: PHD STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

2:15pm-3:00pm: Jonathan Peterson, “Community and Critique, or the ‘Art of Verbal Abuse’ in Sixteenth-Century India”

3:00pm-3:45pm: Anthony Scott, “Higher Forms of Commentary: The ‘Questions of King Milinda’ in the Future of the Past in
Early Twentieth-Century Burma”

3:45pm-4:30pm: Kalpesh Bhatt, “The Internal Turn: Reimagining Agency and Autonomy through the Swaminarayan
Hindu Tradition.”

4:30pm-4:40pm: Concluding remarks

See https://religion.utoronto.ca/programs/graduate/gsa/conference-south-asian-religions/ for updates.