The Workshop on Literature and Theory in India: 2019 Workshop Series
Workshop on Literature and Theory in India features cutting-edge research by Stanford affiliates and prominent scholars about the literary genres and questions concerning the sub-continent and through the intellectual debates in comparative literature field.
The winter series features the following presentations slated on Wednesdays at 6.30 pm in Bldg 260- Rm 216:
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January 30, 2019: Elaine Fisher (Stanford University), "Coconut in the Honey: Multilingual Literary Translations in Early Modern South India"
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February 13, 2019: Sally Sutherland Goldman (University of California- Berkeley), " Revamping the Rākṣasa: The Critics and Bhavabhūti’s Mahāvīracarita"
- February 27, 2019: Undergraduate Colloquium: Come with your ideas, aspirations, and questions!
The spring series features the following presentations:
- April 25, 2019: Neha Kamdar-Chaudhury, a Stegner Fellow at the Creative Writing Program at Stanford and contemporary Indian fiction author, will present a reading from her first novel. 4:30pm to 5:30pm. Rm 216, Bldg 260, Open to Stanford Affiliates Only.
- May 28, 2019: Professor Shonaleeka Kaul, Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, will be addressing us on "The Ethics & Aesthetics of Time: Sanskrit Kāvya & the Writing of History in 12th Century Kashmir" on Tuesday, May 28 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm. Rm 216, Bldg 260, Free and Open to Stanford Affiliates Only. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia and the Workshop on Poetics.
The series is sponsored by Stanford Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages' Research Unit and co-sponsored by Stanford Center for South Asia. For more information, please contact Radhika Koul (Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature) if you’d like to present or participate in the organization.