<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear List Members,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">This is a reminder about the programming for our AAR seminar this year (the first, albeit delayed, one). The papers will be circulated on this list (and soon), so please forward this signup link to anyone whom you think might be interested: <a href="https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/aar-mbh" class="">https://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/aar-mbh</a>.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">AV20-434 Saturday, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM (Virtual) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Session: Alf Hiltebeitel’s Legacy and the Literary-Critical Method</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Brian Collins, Ohio University</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">[Retitled] The Hiltebhārata: Rethinking Alf Hiltebeitel’s Epic Scholarship Through His Late Engagement with Freud; Including an Upākhyāna from Interwar Vienna.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Joydeep Bagchee, Independent Scholar</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The Mahābhārata as Literature: Hiltebeitel’s “Literary Turn” at 20</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Vishwa Adluri, Hunter College</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Fathers and Sons: Deconstructing Paternity and Engendering Literature</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">AV21-416 Sunday, 5:00 PM-6:30 PM (Virtual) </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Session: Multifarious Mahābhārata Methods</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Arti Dhand, University of Toronto, Presiding</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The doctrine of vyakti or emergence in the Mahābhārata</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Simon Winant, UGent</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Redemption or Death: Jain Reinterpretations of the Slaying of Kīcaka</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Andrzej Babkiewicz, University of Warsaw</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Sacred, mundane and religious geography of the Mahābhārata</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Best,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div>Assoc. Prof. Brian Collins<br class="">Department Chair and Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy<br class="">Author, <a href="http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6920-the-other-rma.aspx" class=""><i class="">The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma</i></a> (SUNY Press, 2020)<br class="">Editor, <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bollywood-horrors-9781350143173/" class=""><i class="">Bollywood Horrors: Religion, Violence, and Cinematic Fears in India</i></a> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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