The following recent book might be of interest in this context: https://books.google.com/books/about/Conversations_with_the_Animate_Other.html?id=VdDYEAAAQBAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, 11:28 pm Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY, < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the information, Andrea, this is really helpful! I've > registered for the 9 Nov sessions at Texas (the remaining days are > in-person only). It's good to know about the U. Kent meeting. What a > great subject! > > Best, > Dominik > > -- > Prof. Dominik Wujastyk > University of Alberta > > > On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 11:10, Andrea Lorene Gutierrez < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Dominik, >> >> I am fully with you, Dominik, with the frustration of high rates for >> large conferences, given the range of our interlocutors coming from Global >> South, contingent, parttime, and all sorts of situations. >> >> The Madison organizers had encouraged making ACSA panels virtual to allow >> international participants a chance to join at the discounted international >> virtual half price rate (especially thinking of places where it's >> impossible to get a visa, to say nothing of travel costs). With this in >> mind, our Animal Subject symposium has international participants, >> including a grad student in India, and we are making our exploration >> accessible to as many as we are able, and much more so than other >> in-person-only symposia that I've seen promoted on this and other >> listservs. >> >> That said, it is frustrating to me, you, and others, and I would like to >> find other ways around this. >> >> To clarify Patrick's kind promotion of the Shared Ecosystems workshop, >> *only* Saturday Nov. 9's 10am-1pm (US CST) outreach presentations are >> going to be virtual with the zoom link Patrick provided below (info here: >> https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/southasia/events/shared-ecosystems-animals-humans-the-environment-in-south-asia-3 >> ). Even when there is overlap of participant speakers in common between >> these two events, they are presenting entirely different work (and >> sometimes on different animals! ;) ) for each of the events. >> >> As a consolation, I can also offer another freely accessible online event >> in just 2 days (Friday) where I'll be presenting different, older work of >> mine (on vyākaraṇa and navyanyāya discussions of animal speech). The other >> presenters are not Indological in nature: >> https://research.kent.ac.uk/rethinking-fables/events-calender/ >> >> Thanks for this forum's continued support of all activities Indological >> in nature and for promoting free and open access to all, >> Andrea >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 👍 >>> >>> Dominik Wujastyk reacted via Gmail >>> <https://www.google.com/gmail/about/?utm_source=gmail-in-product&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=emojireactionemail#app> >>> >>> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 13:01, Patrick Olivelle <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> An expanded version of this will be held on Nov 7-9 at the University >>>> of Texas. And it is free to the public. Try this zoom link: >>>> https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcuuvpz4vG9Go9c7-X3ytCF9fP250r1nP#/registration >>>> >>>> Patrick >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Oct 21, 2024, at 4:41 PM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Sounds great, but is only "open to registered conference attendees". >>>> Registration is US$260. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Prof. Dominik Wujastyk >>>> University of Alberta >>>> >>>> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, >>>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge >>>> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities >>>> and service." >>>> -- Collective Agreement >>>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf> >>>> 3.01 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 13:20, Andrea Lorene Gutierrez via INDOLOGY < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear all (with apologies for cross-posting), >>>>> >>>>> I'm pleased to invite all to join our full-day symposium, both >>>>> in-person and virtual (zoom link in conference app), at the Madison 2024 >>>>> ACSA on *"Animal Subjects in South Asia,"* co-organizers Andrea >>>>> Gutierrez and Thomas Trautmann. >>>>> >>>>> For more information please contact me at >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> Yours, >>>>> Andrea Gutierrez >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *Animal Subjects in South Asia* >>>>> >>>>> *Abstract* >>>>> >>>>> Animals are intricately woven into the histories, ideologies, images, >>>>> and texts of South Asia. Likewise, human lives in South Asia have >>>>> perennially existed alongside non-human animals within shared ecologies. >>>>> Recent decades have been marked by the “animal turn” across the scholarly >>>>> landscape, and the introduction of animal studies into South Asian studies >>>>> is already well underway. This symposium radically centers animals in our >>>>> study of South Asia without decentering humans, exploring human >>>>> understandings of specific animals throughout the historical period, from >>>>> deep history to the present day. >>>>> >>>>> The symposium dedicates more than half of our attention to one very >>>>> exceptional animal—the elephant—with the rest of our time reserved for >>>>> other animals in South Asia. Our research concerns animals as beings of >>>>> their own. At the same time, focusing on animals only aids our >>>>> understanding of human histories, stories, archaeologies, ethnographies, >>>>> and geographies. >>>>> >>>>> *Schedule for Wednesday, Oct. 30* >>>>> >>>>> *8:30-10:15 Human-Animal Relations: From Elephants to Pigeons* >>>>> >>>>> Anu Karippal, “'Wildness', Conservation Discourse, and Cultural >>>>> Elephants of South India” >>>>> Muhammad Kavesh, “Rethinking Multispecies Hospitality in Rural >>>>> Pakistan” >>>>> Sagnik Saha (virtual), “The Abject Animals: Dogs, Jackals and Donkeys >>>>> in Early Indian Imagination” >>>>> >>>>> *Break 10:15-10:30am* >>>>> >>>>> *10:30- 12:15 The Visual Record of Animals in South Asian History* >>>>> >>>>> Chiara Policardi (virtual), “Śrī-Lakṣmī and Elephants: Investigating >>>>> Genesis and Valences of the Association, between Texts and Art” >>>>> Charlotte Gorant, “Elephant and cobra nāgas: Exploring ancient >>>>> likenesses of curved trunks and bodies in art” >>>>> >>>>> *Lunch 12:15-1:45pm* >>>>> >>>>> *1:45-3:30 Elephants through History: Understanding the Biological >>>>> Animal, Animal Management & Sovereignty and Kingship* >>>>> >>>>> Thomas Trautmann, “Elephant science, old and new” >>>>> Andrea Gutiérrez, “Tusk-trimming within the Elephant Care Tradition ( >>>>> *Gajaśāstra*) of Early South Asia” >>>>> Ali Anooshahr, “Aurangzeb’s Elephants” >>>>> >>>>> *Break 3:30-3:45pm* >>>>> >>>>> *3:45 - 5:30 Watery Beings, Fluid Identities: Animals Read through >>>>> Buddhist Materials & Āyurveda* >>>>> >>>>> Lisa Brooks, “Unlikely Subjects: Leeches, Gender, and Personhood in >>>>> Early South Asian Medical Literatures” >>>>> Jahnabi Chanchani, “Making Animal, Making Buddha” >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr. Andrea Gutiérrez >>>>> Assistant Professor of Instruction >>>>> Department of Asian Studies >>>>> The University of Texas at Austin >>>>> >>>>> https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/asianstudies/faculty/alg3485 >>>>> https://utexas.academia.edu/AndreaLoreneGutierrez >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> Dr. Andrea Gutiérrez >> Assistant Professor of Instruction >> Department of Asian Studies >> The University of Texas at Austin >> >> https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/asianstudies/faculty/alg3485 >> https://utexas.academia.edu/AndreaLoreneGutierrez >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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