Symposium on Women and Poetry in Premodern India
- Starts: 2:00 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2019
- Ends: 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2019
Speakers and Presentation Titles:
Dr. Dolores Pizarro Minakakis (Independent Scholar, Cambridge, MA): “I Am That Same One: Women as Object and Subject in Sanskrit Poetry”
Prof. Neelima Shukla-Bhatt (Wellesley College), “Moving Dreamlike on a Fading Road: Women Bhakti Poets of Medieval India”
Prof. Sunil Sharma (Boston University), “Why Shouldn’t I Be Proud: Indo-Muslim Princesses and Courtesans as Poets”
Abstract: This symposium will explore the roles of women in the three main South Asian literary cultures: the classical tradition in Sanskrit, vernacular traditions in languages such as Gujarati and Kashmiri, and the Indo-Muslim tradition in Persian and Urdu. The presentations will focus on women as both creators of poems and their representation in poetry by male poets.
http://www.bu.edu/asian/2019/01/23/women-and-poetry-in-premodern-india-april-4-2019/
This symposium is co-sponsored by the BU Department of World Languages and Literatures, the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations, and the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program.
- Speaker(s)
- Dr. Dolores Pizarro Minakakis, Prof. Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, and Prof. Sunil Sharma
- Event Open To
- public
- Building
- College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), 725 Commonwealth Avenue
- Room
- Room 200
- Show Fees
- free
- Link:
- http://www.bu.edu/asian/2019/01/23/women-and-poetry-in-premodern-india-april-4-2019/
- Contact Organization
- BU Center for the Study of Asia
- Contact Name
- Robert Murowchick
- Information Phone
- 617-358-8006
- Contact Email
- remurow@bu.edu
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