Performing Bhakti: An Artistic Array Schedule
Yale University
Friday, May 3 – Sunday, May 5, 2019
FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2019
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Welcome
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Being the Performer
Shrivatsa Goswami Bhagavata Lila: Adoring Krishna’s Word Image
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2019
Room 202, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Theme: Performing Bhakti by Region and Medium
9:30 am – 11:00 am Music and Modernity
Abhishek Bose Kīrtan– the Way, the Attainment
Eben Graves Word-Pictures, Sound-Pictures: Expansions of Mood and Meaning in Bengali Devotional Performance
Yogi Trivedi Religious Identity Performed in Swaminarayan’s Court: Premanand’s Changing Song
11:30 pm – 1:00 pm Painting, Sculpture, Poetry
Neeraja Poddar Narrating Bhakti: The Aniruddha Episode in Two Formats
Jack Hawley Painting as Performed Poetry in Mewar
Vasudha Narayanan Churning the Ocean at Angkor Wat
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Bhakti in Braj – I
Dalpat Rajpurohit Performing Bhakti in Courtly (?) Genres: Sundardas and his Oeuvre
Heidi Pauwels Devotional Songs in Performance: Evidence from the Eighteenth Century
Swapna Sharma Celebrating Krishna: Music, Painting, and Food
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Performing Braj – II
David Haberman Svarūpa-śṛṇgāra as Artistic Devotional Performance in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti
Peter Manuel Languriya Rides a Motor Car: Tradition and Modernity in Commercial Kaila Devi Worship
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Dance Performances in Dialogue
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Geeta Chandran
“SAMAGAMA LEELA: A dancer’s journey by Geeta Chandran”
Hari Krishnan and Troupe, with special input from Davesh Soneji
“Come to Me…” (world premiere)
SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
9:30 am – 10:30 am Dramas of Bhakti
Phyllis Granoff The Silent Sage and the Noisy Puppet: A Jain Performance of Bhakti
Molly Kaushal The Making of Ram in a Hindu-Muslim Ramlila Tradition
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Wrap-up Conversation
for more information, please contact bibek.basnet@yale.edu