All sessions will be held in 912 Sproul Hall except where noted
8:45-9:45 Breakfast
915 Sproul Hall
SESSION 6: Adornment as Concealment
Chair: Arun Brahmbhatt
10:00 Nicole Karapanagiotis (Rutgers University, Camden), “When Adornment Becomes Waste: The Afterlives of Ritual Flowers in Hindu Temple Ritual”
10:30 Ryan Brizendine (University of California, Davis), “Adorning the Beloved, Disclosing the Real: Poetic Embodiment and Theophany in Jāyasī’s Padmāvat”
SESSION 7: The Adornment of Temples
Chair: Brian Pennington
11:00 Anna Seastrand (University of Minnesota), “The Many Arts of Adornment in Sucindram’s Gopuram”
11:30 Gita V. Pai (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), “Adorning an Adored Goddess in Madurai”
12:00-1:30 Lunch
915 Sproul Hall
SESSION 8: Ascetic Adornment
Chair: Robin Rinehart
1:45 Prathik Murali (University of Florida), “The Ascetic in White Robes: Materializing Rāmānuja’s Hagiography in Festivities”
2:15 Nicholas Witkowski (University of San Diego), “The ‘Trickle-Up’ Theory of Fashion and the (Upper-caste) Buddhist Appropriation of Outcaste Sartorial Repertoire”
2:45 Break
SESSION 9: Adornment in Tamil Nadu
Chair: Sufia Uddin
3:15 Amy Allocco (Elon University), “Material Adornment and Lyrical Decoration for Periyandavar”
3:45 Manasvin Rajagopalan (Krea University), “Of Stone and Song: The Kuravanji in Two Forms”
SESSION 10: The Devotion of Adornment
Chair: Archana Venkatesan
4:20 Gil Ben-Herut (University of South Florida), “Ritual Elaborations in Early Vīraśaiva Texts”
4:50 Nancy Martin (Chapman University), “Adorning Devotion, Renunciation and Divinity in Mira Songs”
5:30 Dinner
Sproul Courtyard