A Pantheon Rediscovered | South Asian Studies | Yale University
Friday, April 18
4:30pm • Keynote Lecture
Yale University Art Gallery • 1111 Chapel Street
Naman Ahuja • Jawaharlal Nehru University
“A Pantheon Rediscovered: Changing Perceptions of Early Historic India?”
6:00pm • Reception
Mayer Lobby • Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday, April 19, 2008 (select title to view abstract)
Luce Hall Auditorium • 34 Hilhouse Avenue
9:00am • Section I • Early Indian Terracottas: The Case of Bengal
Chair: Romila Thapar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Gautam Sengupta, West Bengal State Archaeological Survey, “Early-historic Terracottas from West Bengal: A Geographical Perspective”
Enamul Haque, National Museum, Dhaka, “Terracottas from Bangladesh”
Sima Roy Chowdhury, “Terracotta Art of Panna: An Isolated Phenomenon or a Changing Artistic Tradition?”
11:00am • Section I • Early Indian Terracottas: the Art Historical Context
Chair: John Guy, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sonya Quintanilla, San Diego Museum of Art, “Intersections of Parallel Traditions: Select Commonalities in Early Indian Stone and Terracotta Sculpture”
Shailendra Bhandare, Ashmolean Museum, “Drawing Parallels, Extending Scopes: Interdisicplinary Obervations on Icons and Coins with respect to ‘Sunga’ Terracottas”
Pia Brancaccio, Drexel University, “Satavahana Terracottas between Tradition and Innovation: An Exploration of Sources and Transmission of Models”
2:00pm • Section I • Early Indian Terracottas: Epigraphy and Scientific Analysis
Chair: Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University
Harry Falk, Freie Universitat Berlin, “Pseudo-Script and So-Called Mixed Script from South Asia”
Pieter Meyers, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Testing the Terracottas”
3:30pm • Section II • Early Urban Culture
Chair: Stanley Insler, Yale University
Robert Brown, University of California at Los Angeles, “Showing it All: Nudity in Early Indian Art”
Robert Goldman, University of California at Berkeley, “Carried Away: Abduction, Rape and Marriage in Early Indian Literature and Society”
8:00pm • Lecture-Demonstration
Auditorium, Sheffield-Sterling Strathcona Hall
1 Prospect Street
(open to the public)
Sunday, April 20, 2008 (select title to view abstract)
Luce Hall Auditorium • 34 Hilhouse Avenue
9:30am • Section III • Early Indian Iconography and Ritual
Chair: Amy Poster
Arlo Griffiths, Universiteit Leiden, “Female Headdresses in the Atharva Veda”
Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, University of California at Berkeley, “The Goddess in the Grove: The Demonic Cult of Nikumbhila Valmiki, Gender, and Religious Anxieties”
11:00am • Section III • Early Indian Iconography and Ritual
Chair: Stephen Huyler
Ramnath Misra, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, “Popular in a Sacred Universe: Formation of Iconographic Types in Bharhut Panels”
Osmund Bopearachchi,CNRS, Paris, “Earliest Depictions of Hindu Deities on Coins from Gandhara: New Numismatic Evidence”
1:00pm • Section III • Early Indian Iconography and Ritual
Chair: Kurt Behrendt, Metropolitan Museum
Doris Srinivasan, State University of New York, “Childbirth, Childhood, and the Magico-Religious World of Transformations”
Frantz Grenet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, “Iranian Gods in Hindu Garb: The Zoroastrian pantheon of the Sogdians, 6th-8th c. A.D.”
2:30pm • Closing Comments
Chair: Phyllis Granoff, Yale University
Naman Ahuja, Jawaharlal Nehru University • Romila Thapar, Jawaharlal Nehru University • Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and the Neil Kreitman Foundation.
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For more information, please contact phyllis.granoff@yale.edu or barbara.papacoda@yale.edu
*image of Terracotta Goddess “Tamluk Yakshi” from the Ashmolean Museum of Arts & Archaeology. Reprinted with permission.