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<div class="">Please find attached all the papers for this year’s panels, which begin tomorrow evening.

<i class="">Authors: if I have inadvertently included an older version of your paper here, please send the newest one you have to the list</i>. As a reminder, the schedule is:</div>

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<div class="" style="margin:0in">Theme: The Performance of Social and Religious Status in the Mahābhārata</div>

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<li class="">Vishwa Adluri, Hunter College: “Dharma Born from a Śūdrayoni: Vidura in the Mahābhārata”</li><li class="">Richard H. Davis, Bard College: “Ekalavya in the Mahābhārata and His Modern Followers” </li><li class="">Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University: “The Poetics of Performative Speech Acts: Literary Expressions of Truth, Power, and Virtue”</li></ul>

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<div class="" style="margin:0in"><i class=""><b class="">Business Meeting </b></i></div>

<div class="" style="margin:0in"><i class=""><b class="">Arti Dhand, University of Toronto, Presiding</b></i></div>

<div class="" style="margin:0in"><i class=""><b class="">Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding</b></i></div>

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<div class="" style="margin:0in"><b class=""><u class="">Sunday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (A19-317)</u></b></div>

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<div class="" style="margin:0in">Special Session: Celebrating the Life and Work of Alf Hiltebeitel (1942-2023)</div>

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<li class="">Brian Collins, Ohio University</li><li class="">Perundevi Srinivasan, Siena College</li><li class="">Brian Black, Lancaster University </li><li class="">Veena Howard, CSU Fresno</li><li class="">Shubha Pathak, American University</li></ul>

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<div class="" style="margin:0in">Theme: Royalty and Divinity in Regional, Vernacular, and Performative Mahābhārata Traditions</div>

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<li class="">Perundevi Srinivasan, Siena College, Loudonville: “Transformation of the Kaurava Queen Peruntiruvāḷ into the Goddess: Periyāṇṭacchi Worship in Tamilnadu”</li><li class="">Sowparnika Balaswaminathan, Concordia University, Montreal: “Ethics, Affect, and the Mahabharata: Karna as the Hero in Tamil Political Mass Movie”</li><li class="">Mukti Patel, University of Chicago: “Kālidāsa’s Writing a Romantic History: Aesthetic Love in the Story of Śakuntalā”</li></ul>

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Prof. Brian Collins</div>

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Department Chair and Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy<br class="">

Department of Classics and Religious Studies<br class="">

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