Thursday, May 25, 2006
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8:30-9:00
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Welcome, Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:15 |
Mapping Literary Currents I |
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Panel moderator: Christina Kraenzle, York University |
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Marion Gerlind, University of Minnesota: "'The Pale Lotus Flower of the Ganges': The Imperial Shadow in E. Marlitt's Novel Die zweite Frau" |
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Ursula Kocher, Freie Universität Berlin: "Alfred Döblin’s Epos Manas and the reception of India’s religion and philosophy in Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century" |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45-12:30 |
Philosophical Borders I – Hegel, Schlegel & Schlegel |
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Panel moderator: John Noyes, University of Toronto |
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Stephanie Theodorou, Immaculata College: "Idealism and Time: Temporal Consciousness in Bhartrhari and Hegel" |
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Adrian Hsia, McGill University: "Hegel and the Unicultural Perspective on India" |
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Manuel da Rocha Abreu, Freie Universität Berlin: "August Wilhelm Schlegel’s India Theory" |
12:30-14:00
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Lunch Break |
14:00-15:45
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Surveying Indology |
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Panel moderator: Jörg Esleben, University of Ottawa |
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Nicholas Germana, Boston College: "German Diligence and German Profundity: The Institutionalization of Sanskrit Studies in Prussian Universities, 1818-1830" |
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Bradley L. Herling, Boston University: "The Problem of Ethical Action in the Early German Interpretation of the Bhagavadgītā" |
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Doug McGetchin, Florida Atlantic University: "The Whitney-Müller Conflict and Indo-German Connections" |
15:45-16:00
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Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:30 |
Keynote Address: Kamakshi P. Murti, Middlebury College: "'The White Man's Burden': Friedrich Max Müller and his Imperialist
Fictions" |
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Friday, May 26, 2006
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
9:00-10:00
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Philosophical Borders II – Schopenhauer et al. |
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Panel moderator: John Zilcosky, University of Toronto |
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Douglas L. Berger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: "The 'Tat Tvam Asi' Ethic in Vedanta and Schopenhauer" |
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Sai Bhatawadekar, Ohio State University: "Rewriting Indian Thought: Hegel’s and Schopenhauer’s Interpretations of Indian Philosophy and Religion" |
10:00-11:00
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Putting the Diaspora on the Map |
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Panel moderator: Simran Karir, University of Toronto |
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Michael Nijhawan, York University: "Sikh Diaspora Life and the Invisible Sites of German Ethnicity" |
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Shobna Nijhawan, York University: "AN INDIAN AFFAIR: Green Cards, A Marriage Proposal and the Multi-ethnic Divide in the German TV-Serial Lindenstrasse" |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Coffee Break |
11:15-12:30
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Exploring India in Film and Music |
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Panel moderator: Maria Euchner, University of Toronto |
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Christine Lehleiter, Indiana University: "How German is the Indian Tiger? The Uncanny as the Repressed Familiar in Der Tiger von Eschnapur" |
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Kenneth DeLong, University of Calgary: "Intimations of India? Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie and the Poetry of Tagore" |
12:30-14:00
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Lunch Break |
14:00-15:00
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Travel in the Channels |
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Panel moderator: Sukanya Kulkarni, University of Toronto |
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Perry Myers, Albion College: "Knowing India, Traveling India: Joseph Dahlmann’s Indische Fahrten" |
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Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Yale University: "The Hegemony Inherent in European 'Emancipation': Günter Grass' Show Your Tongue" |
15:00-15:15
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Coffee Break |
15:15-16:15
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Mapping Literary Currents II |
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Panel moderator: Erika Varga, University of Toronto |
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Petra Fachinger, Queen's University: "India/Sri Lanka, the Holocaust, and the Western Gaze in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay and Jeannette Lander’s Jahrhundert der Herren" |
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Amrit Mehta, CIEFL, Hyderabad: "Reading Austrian Contemporary Writers in India: Debates and Controversies" |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Concluding Remarks |
Conference sponsored by: |
| JIGES: Joint Initiative in German and European Studies |
Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto |
CCGES: Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University |
| Department of German, University of Toronto |
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, York University |
Department of South Asia Studies, University of Toronto |
| Diaspora and Transnational Studies Centre, University of Toronto |
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