South Asia Research and Information
Institute, Dallas, &
Asian Studies, Southern Methodist University
will present a one-day conference entitled
Women and Power in Indian Tradition:
Royalty, Renunciation, and Matriliny
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, September
16, 2017
McCord Auditorium, Dallas
Hall, Southern Methodist University
Featuring
The Queen, the Dasi, and Sexual Politics in
the Sabhaparvan of the Mahabharata
Uma
Chakravarti, Ph.D.
University of Delhi (Emerita)
Ruby of the Dynasty: Chola Queen Sembiyan
Mahadevi
Vidya Dehejia, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Women
and Truth Speech: The Classical Saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār
Then and Now
Karen Pechilis, Ph.D.
Drew University
Kinship,
Power, Gender: Some Questions from the History of Matriliny in Kerala
G. Arunima, Ph.D.
Jawaharlal Nehru University
The Power a Woman's Story
Creates: Stories, Lives, and Female Renunciation in India
Antoinette DeNapoli, Ph.D.
Texas Christian University
Chair:
Steven Lindquist, Ph.D.
Southern Methodist University
Conference parking is free in the lot north of Dallas Hall on Daniel Avenue. For
Directions to Southern Methodist University, see http://sarii.org/directions.html.
For free registration, send the full name,
telephone number, and email address of each attendee to women@sarii.org by September 10, 2017.
Free lunch will be provided only to those who had registered.
Special thanks for co-sponsorship
to Southern Methodist University's
Department of Religious Studies
