Kathy’s Curtain Call:Celebrating a Legacy of Theater and Performance Scholarship in South Asia

Saturday, April 27Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118)

9:15 am -9:30 am Continental Breakfast and Welcome

9:30 am -11:00 pm Presentations by faculty and graduate students – chaired by Kamran Asdar Ali

“Audio-Vision: The Commodity Image Over Time”Arvind Rajagopal (Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU)

“Composite Culture, Religious Syncretism, and Shirdi Sai Baba Devotion”Karline McLain (Associate Professor, South Asian religions at Bucknell University)

“Eyes Turned: Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and the Genre of Ethnographic Film”Natasha Raheja (Doctoral Student in Anthropology at NYU)

Jernaili Sadak : An English translation of Raza Ali Abdi’s BBC Urdu Radio ProgramIsabel Huacuja (Doctoral Student in History at UT Austin)

11:00 am -11:15 am Break 11:15 am -12:30 pm Presentations by faculty and graduate students (continued)

“Storytelling for Change: Women’s Activism and the Theater of Pritham Chakravarthy”Kristen Rudisill (Assistant Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University) (Cancelled- Schedule will be adjusted)

“The Text in the Field: Kathryn Hansen’s Approach to Literature, Ethnography, and Expressive Culture”Nathan Tabor (Doctoral Student in Asian Studies at UT Austin)

“Queer Ideologies and Trans Masculinity in the Indian Subcontinent”Kayden Althen (MA Graduate of Asian Studies at UT Austin)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm SAGAR presentation by Emilia Bachrach and open session with remarks by friends, colleagues and students.

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception at home of Dr. Hansen and Dr. Petievich 5329 Western Hills Drive, Austin, 78731