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<div>Here is the information regarding the two panels our seminar is putting on at the AAR’s Annual Meeting:</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Mahabharata and Classical Hinduism Seminar</div>
<div style="margin:0in">Theme: Women, Warriors, and Others: Societal Ideals and Social Issues in the Mahabharata</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Arti Dhand, University of Toronto, Presiding</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Sushumna Kannan, San Diego State University</div>
<div style="margin:0in">Reading strategies for the Mahabharata through the methodology of ‘stri-shudra’ness </div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Rodney Sebastian, Manhattan College</div>
<div style="margin:0in">Relating Mahābhārata to Veteran Experiences</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Brian Black, Lancaster University</div>
<div style="margin:0in">After Dharma: Dialogue and Pluralism in the Mahābhārata</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Mahabharata and Classical Hinduism Seminar</div>
<div style="margin:0in">Theme: Jewels, Jnana, and Justice: Soteriological Methods in the Mahabharata</div>
<div style="margin:0in">Sunday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM </div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Surit Mishra, Villanova University</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">Nathan McGovern, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater</div>
<div style="margin:0in">Situating the Mahābhārata and Its “Proto-Sāṃkhya” Teachings within the Context of a Brahmanical Reaction to the Śramaṇic Worldview</div>
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<div style="margin:0in">The Gemhearted Hero and His Gemheaded Foe: A Materiophilosophical Method for Interpreting the Mahābhārata’s Aversion of Universal Catastrophe through Arjuna’s Vaiṣṇava Nivṛtti and Aśvatthāman’s Śaiva Pravṛtti</div>
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<div>Attached are all the papers under discussion, with the exception of Shubha’s, which she will send to the list ASAP. </div>
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<div>Alas, I won’t be attending, which is very unfortunate given the high quality of these papers as well as the discussion we can expect!</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Brian </div>
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<div>Assoc. Prof. Brian Collins<br>
Department Chair and Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy<br>
Author, <a href="http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6920-the-other-rma.aspx"><i>The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma</i></a> (SUNY Press, 2020)<br>
Editor, <a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomsbury.com%2Fuk%2Fbollywood-horrors-9781350143173%2F&data=05%7C01%7Caar-mbh%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C660bdf9e76dc419de51c08dac1bdb719%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638035318238316495%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vmZfiN2QC84zZtzTtRxc7oObVy9fDtIcozXbw2%2BU3oI%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bollywood-horrors-9781350143173/" shash="MutmhZ8hMo5kbZiSUduPhLvSzUn54Mp4JmXIihnFLIuMPEqfdWHQVb6BPFJBFbvt3TbSqb+h6lA7C8n3U1VtfTONt4FlYc3AXCR8/S3mnEcHjE2vsYGicZvUeI/jjy3qYxKT706lqPA5fbO+uUjSVnAYKPzz7WZ6Q0GMLqiA84E="><i>Bollywood
Horrors: Religion, Violence, and Cinematic Fears in India</i></a> (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)<br>
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