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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Sonic Spatiality in Sacred Spaces: An Analysis of Resonance in South Indian Temples
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerSound has long played a central role in Hindu worship\, with Vedic chants\, bells\, conch-shells\, and gongs shaping the spiritual soundscape. Unlike the time-domain focus typical in Western religious acoustics\, Hindu rituals emphasize frequency-rich sounds\, forming what we term a “frequency domain soundscape of worship.” In this talk\, Shashank Aswathanarayana will present the results of his acoustic analysis of six UNESCO heritage South Indian temples: four rock-cut cave temples in Badami and Aihole and two freestanding temples\, the Virupaksha temple in Pattadakal and Vijaya Vittala temple in Hampi. Using impulse response measurements\, standard acoustic parameters\, such as reverberation time (T30) and clarity index (C80)\, and nonstandard parameters\, such as resonance quality and resonance width\, are computed to provide an insight into their acoustic properties. His findings highlight how temple architecture supports ritual acoustics\, with implications for both heritage preservation and the virtual re-creation of ancient sonic environments. \nShashank Aswathanarayana is a music technologist\, percussionist\, and researcher from Bengaluru\, India\, who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Audio Technology at American University. He received his PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sonic-spatiality-in-sacred-spaces-an-analysis-of-resonance-in-south-indian-temples/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerPakistan is today a Muslim country\, and it has been so for nearly a thousand years. But before that\, Buddhism thrived in the area known today as Pakistan\, especially in the regions of Gandhara\, Gilgit\, and Baltistan. In this talk\, José Cabezón will explore the Buddhist heritage of Pakistan through a virtual tour of some of its most important Buddhist sites\, with examples of the exquisite art of Gandhara found in Pakistan’s major museums. \nJosé Ignacio Cabezón is Research Professor and Dalai Lama Professor Emeritus at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His wide-ranging research interests in various aspects of Tibetan religious traditions and religious studies include Madhyamaka philosophy\, gender and sexuality\, classical South Asian political ethics\, and Tibetan rituals. The recipient of many awards and fellowships\, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and served as president of the American Academy of Religion in 2020. The author of numerous books and articles\, his most recent publications include Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism (Wisdom Publications\, 2017)\, a landmark study of classical Buddhist theories of sexuality\, and Sera Monastery (Wisdom Publications\, 2019)\, the most comprehensive history of a Tibetan monastery in a Western language. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-buddhist-heritage-of-pakistan/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Seeking Mirabai: The Making of a Saint and Cultural Heroine
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerIn this talk\, Nancy Martin will trace the making of the sixteenth-century royal rajput devotee Mirabai into a saint and cultural heroine through the varied portrayals of her across the centuries found in hagiography\, rajput historiography\, nationalist rhetoric\, and oral epic song traditions. She will also examine the early twentieth-century mobilization of Mirabai as a cultural heroine by Gandhi\, Tagore\, and others\, culminating in Subbulakshmi’s film portrayal of the poet-saint on the cusp of Indian Independence. The talk will challenge the persistent nineteenth-century “historical” domestication of Mirabai’s character and will present a far more dynamic portrayal of the saint that is the wellspring of her continuing power to inspire as well as of the ambivalence that still attends her into the twenty-first century. \nNancy M. Martin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Chapman University and Life Member of Clare Hall\, Cambridge University. Her research focuses on Hindu devotional traditions\, gender and religion\, and comparative religious ethics. Her recently published book Mirabai: The Making of a Saint (Oxford University Press 2023) is the culmination of three decades of research on the sixteenth-century saint Mirabai and is the first of three volumes. The second volume focuses on Mirabai’s poetry and the third volume on postcolonial and global incarnations and invocations of the saint. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/seeking-mirabai-the-making-of-a-saint-and-cultural-heroine/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240314T160000
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Bhakti and Its Place in Subaltern India
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerIn this talk\, Maharshi Vyas will explore the intersection of studies of Adivasis\, Indigenous tribal communities in India\, and theorizations of the category of bhakti (devotion) in South Asian Studies. Drawing on archival materials and ethnographic research\, he will seek to provide hermeneutical space to the subaltern voices of the Adivasis themselves by providing an analysis of bhajans\, devotional songs\, originating from the Bhil Adivasi community in the language of Bhili\, an Adivasi language spoken in the mountainous borderlands of the Indian state of Gujarat. These songs offer insights into the self-understandings and aspirations of the Bhils\, the nature of the local deities worshiped by them\, and the oral-performative methods deployed by this Adivasi community to fashion a distinctive regimen of religiocultural practices that sets them apart from the institutionalized forms of bhakti discourse developed by transnational devotional movements such as the Swaminarayan Sampradāya. \nMaharshi Vyas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research interests focus on the religious and cultural practices of subaltern Indigenous communities in India\, with a particular focus on the Adivasis of Gujarat. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bhakti-and-its-place-in-subaltern-india/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Buddhists Whisper Down the Lane: A Burmese Novel and a Nepalese Nun Lost and Found in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerThis talk by Christoph Emmrich follows the cascading series of translations into three languages\, over a period of half a century\, from 1963 to 2016\, of the story\, told by a leading Burmese poet\, historian\, and monastic manager\, about a feisty Newar Buddhist adolescent girl child prodigy from a wealthy Nepalese family who joined a troupe of Assamese elephant hunters to cross the Indian northeast and reach a nunnery in a sleepy town on the opposite shore of the Bay of Bengal\, aiming to learn about the meaning of nirvana. In this talk\, Emmrich tries to solve not just the puzzle of nirvana but also to answer those questions posed by the iterations of a life story which\, as it crosses the boundaries of genders\, languages\, regimes\, and nation-states\, the protagonist tries repeatedly and in multifarious ways to re­appropriate as her own. \nChristoph Emmrich is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto. With a background in the study of the Buddhist Therāvada and the Śvetāmbara and Digambara doctrines of time\, he works on Hindu and Buddhist Newar rites\, texts\, and material things involving poets\, priests\, girl children\, translators\, print pioneers\, and shopkeepers in the Kathmandu Valley and does some of the same in Burma and Tamil Nadu. His publications include Writing Rites for Newar Girls: Marriage and Menarche according to Kathmandu Valley Manuals (Brill\, forthcoming). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, 84000 Buddhist Texts Translation Initiative\, and Translation Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/buddhists-whisper-down-the-lane-a-burmese-novel-and-a-nepalese-nun-lost-and-found-in-translation/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Worship Space Acoustics: Exploring Its Application in Hindu Temples
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerAcoustically important aspects of Hindu worship include chants\, bells\, conch-shells\, and gongs. Every Hindu temple is fitted with bells that worshipers ring. Conch-shells and gongs are used at various times during pūjā rituals\, during which texts from the Vedas and other Sanskrit scriptures are chanted. These Vedic chants have phonetic characteristics such as pitch\, duration\, emphasis\, uniformity\, and juxtaposition. In this talk\, Shashank Aswathanarayana will discuss his postdoctoral research on the acoustics of Hindu temples in which he plans to build a complete acoustic image of five Hindu temples in South India and analyze the characteristics of the sounds within these temples as they relate to the effects on human consciousness. He also plans to develop and define new methods of acoustic characterization that are more appropriate for Hindu worship spaces than the traditional methods of acoustic characterization that have been developed for Christian worship spaces. \nShashank Aswathanarayana is a music technologist\, percussionist\, and research scholar from Bengaluru\, India\, who received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. In fall 2023\, he will embark on his postdoctoral research at American University in Washington\, DC\, as a Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/worship-space-acoustics-exploring-its-application-in-hindu-temples/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230320T163000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Trust Issues: Debating Medicine and Authority in Medieval India
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerWhen it came to medicine in medieval India\, it was hard to know who to trust. Physicians and philosophers employed in royal courts disputed the competing claims to medical authority\, using debates initiated around religious scriptures to assess the authority of canonical Sanskrit medical texts. This talk will focus on arguments made by Ugrāditya\, a physician who was one of many Jain scholars working in the court at Mānyakheṭa of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Amoghavarṣa Nṛpatuṅga (r. 815-877). From his position at the center of political power\, Ugrāditya challenged the Sanskrit medical classics and argued that a new understanding of medicine founded on Jain principles was necessary\, negotiating a new space for Jain scholars and physicians in a wider world of medicine. \nEric Gurevitch is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University. His research explores the complex interplay of science and religion in precolonial South Asia and seeks to establish a central place for the sciences in Religious Studies and South Asian Studies. His current book project\, Everyday Sciences: Making Knowledge Local in South Asia\, focuses on a group of Jain authors in southwest India who rewrote the terrain of scholarship in medieval and early modern South Asia by introducing a novel archive of Sanskrit and vernacular texts described as “everyday sciences.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/trust-issues-debating-medicine-and-authority-in-medieval-india/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Engaging Religious Difference: The Case of Haribhadrasūri
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerThe philosophical corpus attributed to the preeminent eighth-century Śvetāmbara scholar-monk Haribhadrasūri presents one of the most sustained\, systematic\, and multifaceted engagements with religious difference in all of medieval South Asian literature. This talk will examine his various modes of engaging difference and how they fit together: his doxographies surveying the varieties of belief; polemics that advocate critical interrogation of partisan allegiances; rules for debate that seek common ground in the face of divergent identity-based presuppositions; and his philosophical magnum opus on the metaphysics of non-one-sidedness (anekāntavāda)\, which can be read as a way of retrieving agreement in the midst of disagreement. \nAnil Mundra is the Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of Jainism at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. His research focuses on how South Asian philosophers conceptualized doctrinal differences\, navigated disagreements\, and sought agreement with others in the multi-religious ferment of Sanskrit discourse in the late first millennium CE. His talk will draw on his current book project\, No Identity without Diversity: Haribhadrasūri’s Anekāntavāda as a Jain Response to Doctrinal Difference\, which provides a sustained treatment of the contributions of Haribhadrasūri to the development of a premodern Jain cosmopolitanism that accommodated a range of competing voices within a single discourse. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/engaging-religious-difference-the-case-of-haribhadrasuri/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Rethinking Non-Violence: The Spiritual and Emotional Lives of Animals in Jain Literature
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerWhy are Jains committed to non-violence (ahiṃsā)? Is it out of a compassion for animals? Is it because of the consequences of violent action on the soul? This talk argues that the answer to these questions depends in part on whether one is reading Jain doctrinal texts or Jain literature. Jain literature in Kannada and Sanskrit offers a rationale for non-violence that is based on an affective materiality that karmically binds souls together across transmigration and in and through animal and human bodies. For these texts\, such bonds mean that the fish on your dinner plate could be your father in ways that complicate the motivations and consequences of non-violence. \nSarah Pierce Taylor is Assistant Professor of South Asian religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her research interests focus on the historical interactions of Jain traditions with Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Her talk will draw on her forthcoming book\, Embodying Souls: Emotion\, Gender\, and Animality in Premodern South Asian Religions\, which engages medieval literature in Sanskrit and Kannada produced by the Digambara Jain community of the western Deccan and argues that Jain literature\, in engaging the breadth of the soul’s experience\, formulated a vision of the human being that exceeded normative constructions and envisioned the human as formerly animal\, conceivably transgendered\, materially bound by emotion\, and relationally connected to a larger group of souls. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rethinking-non-violence-the-spiritual-and-emotional-lives-of-animals-in-jain-literature/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Self-Formation and Selflessness in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerThe sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition proposes a unique model of grace that decenters the paradigm of atonement and forgiveness and instead centers on forgetting and remembrance. In this Kṛṣṇa bhakti tradition\, jīvas\, embodied beings\, occupy a unique intermediary position that identifies them both in relationship to Kṛṣṇa\, the supreme Godhead\, and to the material world of prakṛti. Jīvas can therefore choose to either turn toward or away from Kṛṣṇa. A person turns away from or forgets Kṛṣṇa by committing aparādhas\, “offenses\,” such as criticizing one’s guru. However\, aparādhas should not be conceptualized as “sins” that require atonement and forgiveness. Instead\, aparādhas reflect an orientation of forgetfulness\, which can best be remedied through remembrance. Remembering Kṛṣṇa occurs primarily through sādhana-bhakti practices such as chanting and meditation and culminates in a devotee’s recognition of their eternal identity in relationship to Kṛṣṇa. Such perfected devotional selves embody the principle of sevā\, selfless service\, in which the devotee’s realm of concern has shifted entirely away from the ego-bound self towards Kṛṣṇa. It is therefore through the process of becoming perfectly selfless that perfected devotional selves are formed. \nEileen Goddard is a doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include South Asian religious traditions\, comparative philosophy\, bhakti traditions\, and gender and sexuality. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-self-formation-and-selflessness-in-the-gau%e1%b8%8diya-vai%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87ava-tradition/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Amritlal Thakkar: A Gandhian "Intervention" in the "Tribal Question"
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerDebates on the “tribal question” constituted an important part of intellectual politics during the late colonial period in South Asia\, especially during the decades leading to the Partition and Independence in 1947. Present-day “reservation” (affirmative action) policies for the “Scheduled Tribes” owe much to these debates. The “tribal question” was framed as a question that attempted to resolve how the British colonial government\, and later the post-colonial Indian government\, should engage groups of tribal communities that live in geospatially and socially marginalized conditions. This talk provides a critical analysis of the role of Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar as an important interlocutor in these debates. Thakkar\, a Gandhian activist\, was hailed by many of his contemporaries as an exemplary champion of social service to the depressed castes and tribal communities. His intellectual battles with two other prominent figures—Bhimrao Ambedkar and Verrier Elwin—served to crystallize the problems of framing “indigeneity” in nationalist formulations. It also brought to light the inherent tensions involved in the politics of representing Adivasis\, or “aboriginal tribes\,” on the one hand\, and Dalits\, or “untouchables\,” on the other. Although these intellectual debates were based on essentialist definitions of religion\, culture\, and civilization\, they gave rise to methods of representation that greatly influenced the post-colonial state’s policies with regard to subaltern communities. \nMaharshi Vyas is a doctoral student specializing in South Asian religions and cultures in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on subaltern communities in South Asia and explores more specifically the intersections among Adivasi tribal communities and institutionalized bhakti sampradayas\, or devotional schools. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-amritlal-thakkar-a-gandhian-intervention-in-the-tribal-question/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T133001
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: For He Gladdens the Earth: Consent and Conjugality in the Astral State
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerTraditional discussions of gender in Hindu traditions often begin with a critique of patriarchy in orthodox Brahmanical Dharmaśāstras\, followed by a turn to potential feminist resources—for example\, in goddess worship\, Śākta traditions\, and Tantra. One effect of this line of thinking has been a relative absence within Hindu studies of reflections on gender in relation to state power\, a thematic hallmark of feminist postcolonial histories of South Asia. Geslani’s talk reframes the question of gender in premodern Hindu traditions by historicizing orthodox gender theories in relation to other contemporaneous interlocutors. He focuses on royal sexual politics as depicted in the astral sciences\, Jyotiḥśāstras\, which he argues are crucial texts for uncovering the ideology of the medieval state. When placed in relation to ritual and omenology\, an astral theory of conjugality reveals the uniquely gendered power of royal bodies to naturalize political consent. \nMarko Geslani is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism (Oxford University Press 2018). \nSponsored by the IHC South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-for-he-gladdens-the-earth-consent-and-conjugality-in-the-astral-state/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Politics of Eros and Ecofeminism in India
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerHerbert Marcuse (1898–1979)\, the German-American philosopher and political theorist who was a prominent member of the Frankfurt School of critical social theory\, envisioned a new form of feminist socialism in which Eros\, desire\, the domain of the body and the passions\, would be restored to its proper place as equal to Logos\, reason. In this talk Savita Singh will explore the politics of Eros articulated by Marcuse through an analysis of the politics of ecofeminism in contemporary India. She will examine a range of anti-development struggles in India\, from the work of ecofeminist activists Medha Patkar and Vandana Shiva to the Chipko movement to tribal protests in Odisha\, and will suggest that these struggles give concrete expression to a Marcusean vision of a feminist socialism that seeks to establish a balance between Eros and Logos and between the forces of life and death. \nSavita Singh is a Professor in the School of Gender and Development Studies at Indira Gandhi National Open University. A political theorist and feminist poet\, her research interests focus on feminist political theory\, epistemology\, and aesthetics; women’s labor issues; and the discourse of modernity in India. Her recent publications include Fathoming the Depths of Reality: A Conversation between Roy Bhaskar and Savita Singh (2019). \nSponsored by the IHC South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-politics-of-eros-and-ecofeminism-in-india/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T134500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Mediterranean Pathways: GIS\, Network Analysis\, and the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerWe live in a world of maps and networks. GPS enabled phones allow us to instantly locate ourselves on the earth’s surface\, guide us to stores or restaurants\, or announce to the world our location through social media. Likewise\, programs like Google Earth and desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized our engagement with maps\, map-making\, and have challenged traditional notions of space and place. \nThe proliferation of GIS technologies and the “spatial turn” in digital humanities has also provided new avenues for challenging assumptions about the representations of past societies\, the nature of empire\, and the reach of imperial power. Despite their aesthetic beauty\, traditional print maps\, with clearly delineated static borders\, often artificial naming conventions\, and fixed viewpoints do not convey the complexity and uncertainty of the past. \nAncient societies and empires were far from static; they were networks of complex interactions and fierce contestation which unfolded in geographic space. This talk demonstrates how the use of new digital methodologies\, gazetteers\, and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources can be used to model and study these networks\, and how new mapping techniques are transforming our understanding of ancient empire. Using the Attalid Kingdom as a guide\, this talk examines the theory and practicalities of building an entity-relationship gazetteer and how to align it with LOD resources. It then addresses the construction of networks in desktop software\, the impact of networks on cartography\, and how new maps and digital models provided unique insights into the study of ancient Greek garrisons. The talk will then end with a brief overview of how Pleiades and other ancient world digital initiatives\, including the Pelagios project’s Recogito platform\, are developing new tools to enable the research and mapping of ancient networks. \nRyan Horne earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina\, where he had the opportunity to work extensively with the Ancient World Mapping Center. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of History and the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-mediterranean-pathways-gis-network-analysis-and-the-ancient-world/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T133001
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Land\, Lineage\, Embodied Practices\, and the Khora of Migration: Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerThis presentation will explore what it means for people from Mustang\, Nepal\, including those who have migrated to New York\, to care for each other\, steward a homeland across time and space\, remake home elsewhere\, and confront distinct forms of happiness and suffering through these movements. How do people honor and alter their shared responsibilities and senses of connection to people and place through migration? How do different generations abide with each other\, even when they struggle to understand each other? Craig recruits the Himalayan/Tibetan concept of khora—the embodied act of circumambulation as well as a Buddhist philosophical principle that reflects the nature of desire\, interdependence\, and cyclic existence—to theorize cycles of mobility and patterns of world-making between Nepal and New York. She will interrogate the ways in which migration impacts the bodies and heart-minds of individuals and households as well as how shifts in physical geographies at once reflect and are shaped by understandings of sacred geography that give meaning to land and lineage\, up close and from a distance. \nSienna R. Craig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her publications include Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine (2012); Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalaya (2008); Mustang in Black and White\, a collaboration with photographer Kevin Bubriski (2018); and a forthcoming monograph\, The Ends of Kinship: Himalayan Communities between Nepal and New York. Craig enjoys writing across genres\, from narrative ethnography to creative nonfiction\, fiction\, children’s literature\, and poetry. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Dalai Lama Endowment\, and Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-land-lineage-embodied-practices-and-the-khora-of-migration-himalayan-lives-between-nepal-and-new-york/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190506T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T133001
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Dirt on Rubbish: What Discard Tells us about Home Life in Roman Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerThis paper explores activities of cleaning and disposing because they represent key principles of social organization. Close attention to discard behavior helps us to understand how people related to the material goods and places that once made up their object worlds – their material habitus (c.f. Meskell\, 2005: 3). Human relationships to defilement\, in particular\, must be seen in in the context of how human identity as a rational being is established and maintained (Kristeva\, 1982; Lagerspetz 2018). Unlike other social practices in the life history of settlements\, rubbish disposal represents a critical component of the archaeological record (Rathje & Murphy\, 2001). In this paper\, I argue that a close examination of rubbish and waste depositions\, along with the discarded items themselves\, might be able to tell us about social values in the houses of Roman Egypt. Additionally\, activities such as disposal and recycling help to reveal the complex life cycles of houses\, which have typically been understood only as loci of consumption and (more recently) production. \nTo this end\, I compare case studies of cleanliness and rubbish disposal practices from a range of Romano-Egyptian settlements\, including refined evidence from recent domestic excavations (e.g. Trimithis (Roman Amheida)) as well as sites from which we have a large amount of legacy data (e.g. Karanis\, Soknopaiou Nesos\, Oxyrhynchus). These disposal practices are then situated within the global context of rubbish disposal. By exploring Romano-Egyptian waste disposal in a comparative manner\, this paper demonstrates that rubbish can tell us an enormous amount about identity construction\, the maintenance of communal traditions\, and dwelling as place-making. \nAnna Lucille Boozer is an Associate Professor at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on Roman Egypt\, Meroitic Sudan\, empires\, and everyday life. She directs the CUNY excavations at Amheida (Egypt) and the Meroe Archival Project (Sudan). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-dirt-on-rubbish-what-discard-tells-us-about-home-life-in-roman-egypt/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T133001
CREATED:20190225T223807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T012751Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Photography as Embodiment? Questions of Representation and Duplication in the Cult of Sai Baba of Shirdi
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerPortraits of Sai Baba of Shirdi (late 1830s–1918) are everywhere to be seen in public space in Mumbai. Are these images sacred? According to the saint himself\, historical exponents of his teachings\, and many ordinary Mumbai residents\, the answer is “Yes.” What does it mean to encounter divine power in a mass-reproduced image? Drawing on material from his just-released book\, The Neighborhood of Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai (University of Chicago Press\, December 2018)\, William Elison’s talk will trace rival logics in the cult of the saintly icon across three historical junctures. \nWilliam Elison is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UCSB who specializes in modern Indian religious practices and visual culture. In addition to his ethnography of Mumbai\, The Neighborhood of Gods\, he is the coauthor of “Amar Akbar Anthony”: Bollywood\, Brotherhood\, and the Nation. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-photography-as-embodiment-questions-of-representation-and-duplication-in-the-cult-of-sai-baba-of-shirdi/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Buddhism and Sexuality: A Primer
DESCRIPTION:Download FlyerAlthough an ascetic religion that touts celibacy as the norm (at least for the clergy)\, Buddhism has a lot to say about sexuality. José Cabezón’s talk will focus on ancient South Asian sources and will present an overview of what classical Buddhist authors have had to say about sex. Based on his recently published book\, Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism (Wisdom Publications\, 2017)\, the talk will explore the themes of sexuality in Buddhist cosmological writings\, the Buddhist theory of sexual desire\, the interventions that monks and nuns have used to counteract desire\, Buddhist ideas of sexual deviance\, and Buddhist sexual ethics. \nJosé Cabezón is Professor of Religious Studies and the XIVth Dalai Lama Professor of Tibetan Buddhism and Cultural Studies at UCSB. His wide-ranging research interests in various aspects of Tibetan religious traditions and religious studies include Madhyamaka philosophy\, gender and sexuality\, classical South Asian political ethics\, and Tibetan rituals.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-buddhism-sexuality-primer/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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