Friday, April 21, 2023
Barker Center 133, Plimpton Room,
12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
8:30 AM: Breakfast | Meet and Greet
8:45-8:55 AM | Welcome
Martha Ann Selby, Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
SESSION 1
Moderator | Archana Venkatesan
9:00-9:25 AM
Pandyas in the Cilappatikaram
Charlotte Schmid, École française d’Extrême-Orient
9:30-9:55 AM
The other Anklet of Madurai: Nupura Ganga, the Forested Hills, and the Handsome God of Tirumaliruncolai
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
10:00-10:25 AM
The Contrasting Imaginaries of Pāṇṭiyanāṭu and Cōḻanāṭu in Tamil Purāṇic and Historical Narratives
Jay Ramesh, Columbia University
10:30-10:55 AM
Pandya Nadu: The Heart of Kṛṣṇadevarāya’s Empire (?)
Ilanit Loewy Shacham, Tel Aviv University
11:00-11:45 AM
Discussion led by Paula Richman, Oberlin College
11:45 AM-1:15 PM | LUNCH
SESSION 2
Moderator | Anna Seastrand
1:20-1:45 PM
Ambasamudram and its 9th and 10th century temples
Valérie Gillet, École française d’Extrême-Orient
1:50-2:15 PM
Phantom Places and Spatial Absence: Specular Images of Cities in Pandyanadu according to the Tenkasi Sanskrit Production and Inscriptions
David Pierdominici Leão, Jagiellonian University in Cracow
2:20-2:45 PM
Gods and Kings in Southernmost Pandya Nadu
Leslie Orr, Concordia University
2:50-3:20 PM
Discussion led by Richard Davis, Bard College
3:30-4:00 PM | COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 3
Moderator | Martha Selby
4:05-4:30 PM
Making Space for the Sacred in Tirukkurungudi
Crispin Branfoot, SOAS, London
4:35-5:00 PM
It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts
Anna Seastrand, University of Minnesota
5:05-5:30
Cosmic Doorway: Time, Space, and Transformation in ‘Goodbye, Mokṣa’ at the Viṣṇu Temple of Tirukkurungudi
Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis
5:35-6:05
Discussion led by Indira Peterson, Mt. Holyoke College
7:00 PM | Dinner
Harvest
44 Brattle Street (On the walkway)
617-868-2255
Saturday, April 22 2023
THE LOBBY MEETING ROOM
Cambria
ROUNDTABLE
8:30-9:25 AM | Breakfast
9:25-10:15 AM | Summary of Workshop Themes
Paula Richman
Richard Davis
Indira Peterson
10:20-11:50 AM | Open Discussion
10:50-Noon | Closing Comments
Martha Selby
Noon | Lunch