Programme
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- All lecture spaces are located within Trinity College. Please refer to campus map.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Scholars Arrival
Friday, May 16, 2008
- 8:30 - 9:30 AM: Registration | The Buttery, Larkin Building
- 9:30 - 10:00 AM: Welcome | George Ignatieff Theatre
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Session One
- Panel A: Synthetic Selves: Jain, Śrīvaisnavas, and Christian
Conceptions of Personhood | Room 211, Larking Building
Chair: Anne Monius
Joseph Chandrakanthan: The Development of the Concept of Person in Christian Theology...
Christoph Emmrich: The Thread Between the Pages...
Katherine Young: Changing Views of Tamil Religious Personhood... - Panel B: Dominance, Subversion and Radical Humanism |
George Ignatieff Theatre
Chair: Leslie Orr
Brenda Beck: Born to plough - destined to rule a golden land: A Community's Self Image Portrayed In Epic Legend
David Buck: Translating Literary Beauty and Some of its Ugly Consequences...
S. Gunasekaran: Confronting Immoralities: Radical Humanism in Tamil Cittar Tradition
- Panel A: Synthetic Selves: Jain, Śrīvaisnavas, and Christian
Conceptions of Personhood | Room 211, Larking Building
- 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Lunch | Munk Centre for International Studies
- 1:00 - 3:00 PM: Session Two
- Panel A: Ideology, Translocation, and the Quest for Identity
| Room 211, Larking Building
Chair: Vijaya Ramaswamy
Susanne Kranz: The Tamil Identity in the Marxist and Feminist Approaches of the TNDWA...
Paul Younger: Tamil Identity; Hindu Identity: Why So Separate?
Tharsni Kankesan: The Psychological Meaning of Biculturalism - Panel B: Text, Genre, Literacy and Ideal Subjects | George
Ignatieff Theatre
Chair: Aparna Sundar
Lakshmi Holmström: Rules and Transgressions: A reading of Salma’s Irandaam jaamangalin kadai
Preetha Mani: Tamil Subject, Tamil Short Story: Tamil Short Story Writing in the Post-Independence Period
Francis Cody: Arivoli’s Humanism: Literacy Activism and the Making of Self-Making Subjects
- Panel A: Ideology, Translocation, and the Quest for Identity
| Room 211, Larking Building
- 3:00 - 3:30 PM: Refreshments | The Buttery, Larkin Building
- 3:30 - 5:30 PM: Session Three
- Panel A: Constructing the Self in Religious Traditions |
Room 211, Larking Building
Chair: Janet O' Shea
Francis X. Clooney: Personhood and Identity, Divine and Human, in the Ajnananivaranam...
Anne Monius: Humour and Being Human in Medieval Tamil Jain Literature
Margaret Trawick: A Tamil Saiva Siddhanta Concept of Self and Personhood - Panel B: Royalty and Exemplars | George Ignatieff Theatre
Chair: Katherine Young
Gil Ben-Herut: Divine and Human: Nayaka Elaboratings of Personhood
Leslie C. Orr: Image, Emblem, Actor: Women and the Gift in Medieval South India
Maithili Thayanithy: Siddha as Rebel: Dissent and Complicity in the Tamil Siddha Tradition - Panel C: Identity, Landscape and Ecology | Combination Room
Chair: Nadarajah Sriskandarajah
A. Veluppillai: Nature, Identity and Tamil Literature
Ponnampalam Ragupathy: Archaeology of Toponymy...
N. Sriskandarajah (w/ Tharman Saverimuttu): Environmental Pasts, Environmental Futures
- Panel A: Constructing the Self in Religious Traditions |
Room 211, Larking Building
- 5.30 - 6.00 PM: Refreshments | The Buttery, Larkin Building
- 6:00 - 7:30 PM: Plenary Panel | George Ignatieff Theatre | Chair:
Lakshmi Holmstrom
- Bama: Being Human, Being Dalit
- 7:30 PM: Formal Dinner
Saturday, May 17, 2008
- 9:00 - 10:00 AM: Registration | The Buttery, Larkin Building
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Session One
- Panel A: Contesting Terms of Limitation | Room 211, Larking
Building
Chair: Raman Seylon
Gajendran Ayyathurai: Limiting Categories: Seeing Tamils as Subalterns and Dalits
Susan Schomburg: Hey, Girl! Dance the Kummi Called Motcam...
Christer Norström: Situating Adivasi Identity... - Panel B: Recalling a Gesture - History, Identity and Memory in
Bharatanatyam Dance | George Ignatieff Theatre
Chair: Daves Soneji
Hari Krishnan: From Gynemimesis to Hypermasculinity...
Janet O’Shea: From Temple to Battlefield: Bharatanatyam in Sri Lanka
Davesh Soneji: Memoria Technica... - Panel C: Diasporic Figures? Elder, Gangster and Refugee |
Combination Room
Chair: Sharryn Aiken
Richard Antony: Diasporic Youth Gang Culture of Sri Lankan Tamils in South East England
Raoul Boulakia: Constructing Tamils as Person in Canadian Immigration Hearings
Glynis George: Bearing Culture and Servicing Seniors...
- Panel A: Contesting Terms of Limitation | Room 211, Larking
Building
- 12:00 - 1.00 PM: Lunch | Munk Centre for International Studies
- 1:00 - 3:00 PM: Session Two
- Panel A: The Self in the Crucible of War and Nation |
George Ignatieff Theatre
Chair: Alvapillai Velupillai
Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam: Female Identity Under Conditions of War: Tigresses and Others
Sidharthan Maunaguru: Human/Non-Human: Work of doubt in everyday life in the time of war
Nicole Wilson: Women’s Empowerment Through Nationalist Discourse... - Panel B: Figuring the Self in Tamil Literature | Room 211,
Larking Building
Chair: M. Nithiyanandan
Balasundaram Elayathamby: A Study of Purananuru...
R. Cheran: Challenging Mythical and Liberation Narratives: the Poetry of Solakkili
Chelva Kanaganayakam: Poetry and Humanism: After Maranothul Valvom - Panel C: Cultural Psychology of Gender and the Psychological
Well-Being of Tamil Immigrants | Combination Room
Chair: Ram Mahalingam
Sundari Balan: “Super Amma”: Idealized Representations of Tamil Motherhood...
Shanta Kanukollu: “Pure” Woman Ideals and the Silencing of Sexually Abused women: Clinical Implications
Jennifer Yim: Brown Masculinities and the Contours of Resistance to Hegemonic White Masculinities...
- Panel A: The Self in the Crucible of War and Nation |
George Ignatieff Theatre
- 3:00 - 3:30 PM: Refreshments | The Buttery, Larkin Building
- 3:30 - 5:30 PM: Session Three
- Panel A: Fragmentation and Imagination | George Ignatieff
Theatre
Chair: Haema Sivanesan & South Asian Visual Arts Centre
Cyrus Sundarsingh: Chino Amer-Indo Jam-African Dread: Defining Home & Identity
Anurendra Jegadeva: Political Persuasion and Personal Choices...
T. Sanathanan: A Stranger and a Suspect; Being a Sri Lankan Tamil: Narratives of Personhood in Visual Art - Panel B: Locating, Transforming and Transmitting Identity in the
Diaspora | Combination Room
Chair: R. Cheran
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth: Being Tamil in Norway: Negotiations of Well-Being and Identity
Mark Bradley: The Importance of the Temple in the Transmission of Tamil Identity
Mark P. Whitaker: Trauma and Agency in Sri Lanka and Toronto in the ‘New Media’ Age - Panel C: Formations of Tamilness and Personhood in the Colonial
Era | Room 211, Larking Building
Chair: Maithily Thayanithy
Vijaya Ramaswamy: Gender, Language and the Quest for a Tamil Identity...
Ravi Vaitheespara: From Vallalar to Maraimalai Adigal...
Srilata Raman: Saving the Body, Killing the Soul...
- Panel A: Fragmentation and Imagination | George Ignatieff
Theatre
- 5.30 - 6.00 PM: Refreshments | The Buttery, Larkin Building
- 6:00 - 7.30 PM: Plenary Lecture | George Ignatieff Theatre | Chair: Srilata Raman
Presenting Scholars
- Antony, Richard: Diasporic Youth Gang Culture of Sri Lankan Tamils in South East England
- Balan, Sundari: "Super Amma": Idealized Representations of Tamil Motherhood Among Tamil Immigrant Women
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- Bama (Faustina Soosairaj): Being Human, Being Dalit
- Beck, Brenda: Born to Plough - Destined to Rule a Golden Land...
- Ben-Herut, Gil: Being Human in Seventeenth-Century Nayaka Madurai
- Boulakia, Raoul: Constructing Tamils as Person in Canadian Immigration Hearings *
- Bradley, Mark: The Importance of the Temple in the Transmission of Tamil Identity
- Buck, David: Translating Literary Beauty and Some of its Ugly Consequences...
- Chandrakanthan, Joseph: The Development of the Concept of Person in Christian Theology...
- Cheran, R.: Challenging Mythical and Liberation Narratives: The Poetry of Solakkili
- Clooney, Francis X.: Personhood and Identity, Divine and Human, in the Ajnananivaranam...
- Cody, Francis: Arivoli’s Humanism: Literacy Activism and the Making of Self-Making Subjects
- Emmrich, Christoph: The Thread between the Pages...
- Gajendran, Ayyathurai: Limiting Categories: Seeing Tamils as Subalterns and Dalits
- George, Glynis: Bearing Culture and Servicing Seniors...
- Grønseth, Anne: Being Tamil in Norway: Negotiations of Well-Being and Identity
- Gunasekaran, S.: Confronting Immoralities: Radical Humanism in Tamil Cittar Tradition *
- Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Dagmar: Female Identity Under Conditions of War: Tigresses and Others
- Holmström, Lakshmi: Rules and Transgressions: A Reading of Salma’s Irandaam Jaamangalin Kadai
- Kanaganayakam, Chelva: Poetry and Humanism: After Maranothul Valvom
- Kankesan, Tharsni: The Psychological Meaning of Biculturalism
- Kanukollu, Shanta: "Pure" Woman ideal and the Silencing of Sexually Abused Women: Clinical Implications
- Kranz, Susanne: The Tamil Identity in the Marxist and feminist approaches of the TNDWA...
- Krishnan, Hari: From Gynemimesis to Hypermasculinity...
- Mani, Preetha: Tamil Subject, Tamil Short Story: Tamil Short Story Writing in the post-Independence Period
- Maunaguru, Sidharthan: Human/Non-Human: Work of doubt in everyday life in the time of war
- Monius, Anne: Humour and Being Human in Medieval Tamil Jain Literature
- Norström, Christer: Situating Adivasi identity... *
- Orr, Leslie: Image, Emblem, Actor: Women and the Gift in Medieval South India
- O'Shea, Janet: From Temple to Battlefield: Bharatanatyam in Sri Lanka
- Ragupathy, Ponnampalam: Archaeology of Toponymy...
- Raman, Srilata: Saving the Body, Killing the Soul: Tamil Saiva Theology between Pre-colonialism and Colonialism
- Ramaswamy, Vijaya: Gender, Language and the Quest for a Tamil Identity... *
- Sanathanan, T.: A Stranger and a Suspect/Being Sri Lankan Tamil: Narratives of Personhood in Visual Art
- Saverimuttu, Tharman: Environmental Pasts, Environmental Futures
- Schomburg, Susan: Hey, Girl! Dance the Kummi Called Motcam: The Sufi Poetics of Ilaiyankuti Kaccippillaiyammal
- Shulman, David: Tamil Personhood Revisited: New Models of Mind and Self in Sixteenth-century Tenkasi *
- Soneji, Davesh: Memoria Technica: Performing Nostalgia, Stigma, and Loss in Modern Tamil Devadasi...
- Sundarsingh, Cryus: Chino Amer-Indo Jam-African Dread: Defining Home & Identity
- Thayanithy, Maithili: Siddha as Rebel: Dissent and Complicity in the Tamil Siddha Tradition
- Trawick, Margaret: A Tamil Saiva Siddhanta Concept of Self and Personhood
- Vaitheespara, Ravi: From Vallalar to Maraimalai Adigal...
- Veluppillai, Alvappillai: Nature, Identity and Tamil Literature *
- Whitaker, Mark: Trauma and Agency in Sri Lanka and Toronto in the 'New Media' Age
- Wilson, Nicole: Women's Empowerment Through Nationalist Discourse...
- Yim, Jennifer: Brown Masculinities and the Contours of Resistance to Hegemonic White Masculinities...
- Young, Katherine: Changing Views of Tamil Religious Personhood: The Intertwined Lives of Three Srivaisnavas
- Younger, Paul: Tamil Identity; Hindu Identity: Why So Separate?