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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The Seminar on the <i>Mahābhārata</i> and Classical Hinduism is excited to announce that AAR’s Call for Proposals is now open.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Year Four of the seminar includes this theme: Structure(s) of the <i>Mahābhārata</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">This session is dedicated to exploration of structural features of the text, including narrative and linguistic configurations that shed light on its meanings. The
many commentaries, appendices, and adaptations of the text are included in this call for papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">In addition, we seek papers responsive to the Presidential Theme for the 2024 Annual Meetings: “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Margin.” The President's
theme is an opportunity to reflect upon one of the <i>Mahābhārata</i>'s consuming preoccupations: violence and nonviolence. Papers might address questions of practicality and philosophy, narrative and history, ethics and aesthetics, centre and margin. We invite
papers from a broad range of source materials and methodologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The Seminar on the <i>Mahābhārata</i> and Classical Hinduism will be participating in the Online June sessions on June 25–27, 2024. We encourage you to
apply, specifying whether your proposal is for the online or in-person event. Please note that AAR does not allow you to submit the same proposal for both June and November. For this and other questions about the new June meeting, check out the </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faarweb.org%2FAARMBR%2FEvents-and-Networking-%2FAnnual-Meeting-%2FAM-June-Sessions-FAQ.aspx&data=05%7C02%7Caar-mbh%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C4816748946c74ad68fff08dc241054e3%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638424899766795174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=M%2Fe83S03LSq1Ln0UzF5hv%2FbDzn95MqAr0enFlrqT5EM%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/Events-and-Networking-/Annual-Meeting-/AM-June-Sessions-FAQ.aspx" shash="rb5u64OQ18KA56onmQPu2f7vqOTE+LvkAeTcEnaBuqK/UW9sVNdoYCDbXjxjFoAt2xEV85rJzEvh4Ade3vpdadvr/Am6kLSJZe0zPv9G7CHFirYbJCimkY1lPPYYJB5CsReP44WOXQBuDYxAK0wDrLv+kAocieTsb7Q0wxGy1Vs=" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0in;">FAQ</span></a><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">All proposals must be submitted through AAR’s </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.aarweb.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Caar-mbh%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C4816748946c74ad68fff08dc241054e3%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638424899766795174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GvlJSoNy5POXgPuMhrgBPh1xYC2%2BuKBlts%2BuTcJP4fk%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://papers.aarweb.org/" shash="KI8Frz3fkfZf6moc2PGhq03ZYIYmQznaQVLRNXeKn+79l3DaLOXcTrtbcH/PYEnGcjR724WIl/CZZzNBjWf4J4aGEq9AbY3WvM4s6thC1UO1ryyeYEwNwKgfI6jCqoLLTkJpFiDenDCx1dkKi1/BLVBxhFDYSr8NDyzHMmv4aNs=" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0in;">PAPERS</span></a><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> system.
The deadline is <b>Thursday, February 29, 2024, 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. </b>Detailed instructions are provided </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpapers.aarweb.org%2Fcontent%2Fgeneral-call-proposals-instructions&data=05%7C02%7Caar-mbh%40listserv.ohio.edu%7C4816748946c74ad68fff08dc241054e3%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C638424899766795174%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=l%2BYPF49Dn3FR7AmQmOdJbJf0nWyhh%2By3q257oxVR%2BpY%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://papers.aarweb.org/content/general-call-proposals-instructions" shash="guaIC4nX19hdQVrl+4zjlyMQfzfDJVPvHES/S5Wf7geotJeRPqZoTTAilhpfthxvFwXHw+hP49rT/gXX2WQF8ZwjO79f32A0j9d9viBf7BsemR8XeuY44DIBnd8cUQWeZw1nyhZRoGFX4ZxOz0v7d+ZIOef1QOnVUJMYW4A8ffE=" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; border: 1pt windowtext; padding: 0in;">here</span></a><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">; please
consult them carefully for information about word count, procedures, and the limits on the number of appearances (you can only appear on the program two times in any capacity). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">In an effort to encourage diversity in seminar participants, those who presented papers in our 2023 meeting are unlikely to have proposals accepted for
the 2024 sessions. We seek to include the best proposals we receive, whether or not they conform to the themes of the call for proposals, and we seek publication opportunities for them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Since we operate as a seminar in AAR, proposals that we accept are to be presented as completed papers and are due October 1. These papers will be circulated
on our Listserv so that those interested in attending can read them <u>before</u> the meeting, and each paper will receive about half an hour of discussion at the meeting with the aim to offer suggestions for improving and extending the papers for possible
publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Department Chair and Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy<br>
Department of Classics and Religious Studies<br>
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Ohio University<br>
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