All sessions will be held in 912 Sproul Hall except where noted
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
915 Sproul Hall
SESSION 2: The Materiality of Adornment
Chair: Arun Brahmbhatt
9:00 Izzah Khan (University of Texas), “Textiles in Stone: Decoration, Ornament, and the Material Economy of Gandhara”
9:30 Cael Leigh Whalen (University of California, Davis), “Karmic Hierarchies and Spectacular Femininities: The Paradox of Trans Recognition in Thai Theravada Buddhism and Public Society”
10:00 Lynna Dhanani (University of California, Davis), “Patterns of Piety: Decorative Form and Abstract Meaning in Jain Sacred Wall Hangings”
10:30 Break
915 Sproul Hall
SESSION 3: Mind-ful Ornamentation
Chair: Robin Rinehart
11:00 Amy-Ruth Holt (Independent Scholar), “When Light Adorns a Mountain: The Presence of Yogaville's Kailash Staircase”
11:30 Malavika Kannan (University of California, Davis), “Seeing through the Mind’s Eye: Adornment Beyond Indexicality in Āḻvār Poetry”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
915 Sproul
SESSION 4: Landscapes, Environments, and Adornment
Chair: Sufia Uddin
2:00 Linda Saraswati Klausner (University of Tartu and Åbo Akademi University), “Saris and the Sal Tree: Decoration and Ritual Practice in Jharkhand’s Spring Festivals”
2:30 Maharshi Vyas (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Adivasi Adornment and Aesthetics as an Assertion of Synthesis”
3:00 Tamara Sears (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), “Performances in Stone: Architectural Adornment, Natural Landscapes, and Sanskrit Drama in Medieval India”
3:30 Break
SESSION 5: The Craft of Adornment
Chair: Archana Venkatesan
4:00 Rebecca Manring (Indiana University), “Visvakarma: Master of Fine Handicrafts”
4:30 Aniket De (University of California, San Diego), “Masked Boundaries: Adorning Popular Performances in the India-Bangladesh Border”
6:00 Dinner
Sproul Courtyard