Conference Program
All the Conference Sessions will take place in the Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
U.C.Berkeley Campus
Sunday, May 1, 2005
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Session 3: 9:30-10:45 a.m.
From Sthalapurana to Dance Drama: Temples and New Strategies of Localization in yaksagana Dramas from the
Tanjavur Court in the Eighteenth Century
Sanskrit in a South Indian Imaginaire
TEA BREAK: 10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Session 4: 11:00 a.m.-12: 15 p.m.
Imagining Ancient Creativity: An Ethnoarchaelogy of Creative Practice in South Indian Temple Arts
Mapping Artistic Space: The Kaveri Style
LUNCH BREAK: 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Session 5: 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Politics, Patronage and Piety at The Ramaswami Temple in Kumbakonam
Kanchi and Kambuja: Temple Transfers and Cultural Contacts with the Khmer Empire
TEA BREAK: 3:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Session 6: 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
The Temple-tomb in Tamilnadu
From Sage to Critic: Thoughts on Some Tamil Critiques of Temples, Old and New
4:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks