26th Annual Spring Symposium

 

Anticipation / Memory / Place:

Environmentalism, Sustainability, and

Eco-Criticism in South Asian Contexts

Symposium Program

April 8-9, 2009

Located in the Center for Korean Studies

 

 

Wednesday, April 8

8:45am — 9:00am    Morning Coffee

    Center for Korean Studies Lobby

9:00am — 9:15am    Welcoming Remarks

    S. Shankar (UH-Mānoa)

    Ned Shultz (UH-Mānoa)

    Lila Sawhney (G.J. & Ellen Watumull Foundation)

    Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

9:15am — 10:30am    Invited Lecture 1 — "Technology & Tribe: Thinking Nature After Modernity"

                                    Kavita Philip

                                    Department of Women's Studies

                                    University of California, Irvine

                                      

Introduction by Monica Ghosh (UH-Mānoa)

Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

10:30am — 10:45am    Coffee Break

  Center for Korean Studies Lobby

10:45am — 11:45am     Panel 1: "Narrating Identity in Changing Environments"

                    * "The Idea of Place in Three Sri Lankan Novels: Implications for Eco-Criticism"    

                        - Wimal Dissanayake (UH-Mānoa)

                        - Tanvi Patel (University of Washington)

    Chairperson, Uzma Aslam Khan (UH-Mānoa)

    Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

11:45am — 1:45pm    Lunch

    Campus Center, Executive Dining Room

1:45pm — 3:00pm    Invited Lecture 2 — "Ecocultural Exchanges Around the Indian Ocean: A Post-Nationalist Research Agenda"

                                      Haripriya Rangan

                                      School of Geography & Environmental Science

                                      Monash University-Clayton

    Introduction by Ned Bertz (UH-Mānoa)

    Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

3:00pm — 3:15pm    Coffee Break

    Center for Korean Studies Lobby

3:15pm — 4:30pm    Screening of “Stolen Water” (Prashant and Daya, 2003), about the Coca Cola issue at Plachimada; dubbed in English with English subtitles.

Introduction by Miriam Sharma (UH-Mānoa)

Discussants:

          Laura Lyons (UH-Mānoa)

          S. Shankar (UH-Mānoa)

Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

4:30pm — 6:30pm    Break

6:30pm — 7:30pm    Evening Reception

                Pupus, Conversation, and Entertaiment

                Presentation by students of Sai Bhatawadekar's accelerated 1st year Hindi class.

                Sponsored by the Graduate Student Organization

       Center for Korean Studies Lobby

7:30pm — 8:45pm    “Singing Land: A Lecture Demonstration, with Musical Accompaniment, on the Ecological Implications of Ancient Indian (Tamil) Poetry and Music"

    Dr. Nirmal Selvamony (Madras Christian College, University of Madras)

    Introduction by Leela Kumaran

    Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

 

Thursday, April 9

8:45am — 9:00am    Morning Coffee

    Center for Korean Studies Lobby

9:00am — 10:15am    Invited Lecture — "Beyond Envirocriticism and Ecocriticism: The Classical Tamil Concept of Tinai and the Critique of Modernity"

                                      Nirmal Selvamony

                                      Department of English

                                 Madras Christian College, University of Madras

    Introduction by Kristin Bloomer (UH-Mānoa)

    Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

10:15am — 10:30am    Coffee Break

    Center for Korean Studies Lobby

10:30am — 11:30am     Panel 2: "Politics and Policies of Environmental Change"

                    * "Too Many Indians? Environmentalism and the Apocalyptic Politics of (Over)Population"    

                        - Mytheli Sreenivas (The Ohio State University)

                    * "Air Pollution: The Inside Story"

                        - Sumeet Saksena (UH-Mānoa)

    Chairperson, Reece Jones (UH-Mānoa)

    Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

11:30am — 1:00pm    "Environmentalism in Comparative Contexts"

                Roundtable Discussion with  Aya Kimura, Kieko Matteson, and D. Kapua Sproat from UH Mānoa, with invited speakers

                Sponsored by the Comparativism and Translation in Literary/Cultural Studies Research Cluster

    Center for Korean Studies Conference Room

1:00pm — 2:45pm    Lunch

    Campus Center, Executive Dining Room