• April 10, 2010

HUF hosts national symposium on Hindi

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:

Kathryn Hansen discusses the concept of cosmopolitanism in recent Hindi-Urdu novels
Kathryn Hansen discusses the concept of cosmopolitanism in recent Hindi-Urdu novels

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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

Composite Culture and Cosmopolitanism in Manzoor Ehtesham’s Sukha Bargad, Arvind Adiga’s White Tiger, and Slumdog Millionaire

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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