Integrative Medicine in America: Hindu and Chinese Healing Traditions
By Professor Linda Barnes Dr. Linda L. Barnes is a medical anthropologist, historian, and religion scholar whose work bridges these disciplines. An Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, she directs the Boston Healing Landscape Project, which focuses on culturally and religiously grounded complementary / …
An Ocean of Devotion: Regional Traditions
Thursday, March 20, 7:30 pm, Keene Faculty Center Keynote Address: Humoring the Saints: Mirabai and her Guru Dr. John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College / Columbia University Friday, March 21, 9am–12noon, Pugh Hall 210 Imagined Landscapes: Space and Place in the Haridwara Mahatmya Jim Lochtefeld, Carthage College Legal Diglossia in Premodern India, Cambodia, and Java …
Eating Cultures : Gender, Globalization & the Politics of Consumption in South Asia
The Rice Ball with a Stone Inside: Food Metaphors and Women Sanskritists in the Neo Liberal Economy of India Laurie Patton, Emory University Gandhi’s Environmental Legacy: Food Democracy, Globalization and Social Movements Whitney Sanford, University of Florida Global Food, Global Religion: Gandhi and the Cosmopolitan Cow Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Carnatic Music Concert
Sponsored by the UF chapter of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth (SPICMACAY). The event will begin with a short lecture demonstration on padams and javalis. These love songs, composed in Tamil and Telugu, are replete with erotic imagery and were composed both for courtesans and for deities. …
Women • India • Social Reform: Limitations and Potentials of Law as an Instrument of Social Reform
A Lecture by Madhu Purnima Kishwar. One of the great challenges faced by social reform movements in India is the big and growing gap between legislation on various issues and the actual practices prevalent in society. Many people interpret this discrepancy as a sign of “the continuing hold of traditional values and customs” and expect …
Accounting for Performance & Bodies in Transnational Religion
With Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor in the Department of Religion, Emory University. Growing up in India, she received her Ph.D. in South Asian Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Flueckiger specializes in performance studies, with a particular interest in gender and has carried out extensive fieldwork …
Aesthetics and Goddesses Who do Not Migrate: What is Left Behind Shapes What is Here
A faculty and student seminar with Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University. Part of the TSGC workshop on Global Religions in Practice. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), the Transnational and Global Studies Center (TSGC), and the University of Florida International Center, in association with the Department of Religion, the Center …
Triveni Sangam: A Confluence of Three Classical Indian Dance Forms
A dance recital featuring Odissi, Kuchipudi, and Bharat Natyam dances. Featuring Amritha Alladi, Vrinda Devi, Anapayini Jakupko, Swati Mahalaxmi, Vinata Vedam. Music by Mathura Alladi. Tickets are available for purchase at India Bazaar. Tickets: $50 or $20 ($25 at door); Students, $10. For further prices and information, contact Vrinda Devi at 316-1559. Sponsored by the …
Global Religions in Practice
With Professor Thomas A. Tweed (University of Texas, Austin) 10:30 a.m., 117 Anderson Hall Studying Religion in Motion in a Global Context Workshop 3:00 p.m., 219 Anderson Hall Toward an Ethic of Civic Engagement: Reflections on a Kinetic and Relational Theory of Religion Faculty & Student Seminar Thomas A. Tweed has graduate degrees from Harvard …
A Sitar Recital
By Josh Feinberg, accompanied by Javad Butah on the tabla. Josh Feinberg attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he found an opportunity to study sitar. Deeply moved by the music of Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, he became dedicated to learning the instrument and began practice 10-12 hours in a day. Josh received …