In honor of Asian Studies professor Herman van Olphen and his long-serving career in Hindi pedagogy, HUF hosted a symposium entitled Hindi in Texas and Beyond on Saturday, April 10 in the Meyerson Conference Room. The day-long event featured presentations from both Austin-based and national Hindi scholars. Presenters paid tribute to Herman’s role in their own academic careers, presented research on wide variety of Hindi-related subjects, and fruitful discussions followed each talk. The full program is listed below (download a pdf version of the program). Videos of the individual presentations can be found in our Lectures and Performances archive:
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Introductory Remarks
Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas at Austin
Symposium Chair
Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin
Why Meter Matters: Reading 20th Century Hindi Poetry from the Perspective of Metrical Structure
Michael Shapiro, University of Washington
Kathryn Hansen, University of Texas at Austin
The Rhetorical Energy of Old Hindi Verse Structures
Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin
Mahadevi Varma: A Modern Mirabai?
Sarah Houston Green, University of Texas at Austin
Register and Dialect as Markers of Dalit Consciousness in Contemporary Hindi Fiction
Laura Brueck, University of Colorado
The Language of a Saint: Colloquialisms and Philosophical Concepts
Jishnu Shankar, University of Texas at Austin
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