All sessions will be held in 912 Sproul Hall except where noted
2:00-4:00 Arrival, check-in, coffee
Sproul Hall, North Lobby
CONFERENCE OPENING
4:00 Welcome to CSRI: Brian Pennington (Elon University)
4:15 Welcome to Davis: Archana Venkatesan (UC Davis)
SESSION 1: The Visibility and Invisibility of Adornment
Chair: Brian Pennington
4:30 Indrani Maharaj (University of California, Davis), “Pacifying the Bewitched and Besotted: The Role of Banke Bihari's Adornment”
5:00 Layne Little (University of California, Davis), “The Enigma of the Mirror-Faced God”
5:30 David Monteserin Narayana (Stanford University), “How to Decorate the Invisible? Hindu Aniconism and the Mystery of the Many Tamil Empty Shrines”
6:00 Dinner
Sproul Courtyard