2017 Conference Abstracts and Bios

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