Talk on White Tiger (and conference on Hindi)

Hindi in Texas and Beyond

A symposium in honor of Herman van Olphen
Saturday, April 10, 2010
10 am - 4:30 pm
Meyerson Conference Room, WCH 4.118

In honor of UT Asian Studies professor Herman van Olphen and his long-serving career in Hindi pedagogy, the Hindi Urdu Flagship and the Department of Asian Studies will host a symposium entitled Hindi in Texas and Beyond on Saturday, April 10 in the Meyerson Conference Room,WCH 4.132. This day-long event will feature presentations from both Austin-based and national Hindi scholars. The program will begin at 10 am (with coffee and pastries served at 9:30) and conclude at 4:30pm. All presentations are free and open to the public. A full program is listed below:

9:30am - 10am
Reception with Coffee, Tea and Pastries

10am - 10:45am
Why Meter Matters: Reading 20th Century Hindi Poetry from the Perspective of Metrical Structure
Michael Shapiro, University of Washington

10:45am - 11:30am
Composite Culture and Cosmopolitanism in Ehtesham Manzoor's Sukha Bargad, Arvind Adiga'sWhite Tiger, and Slumdog Millionaire
Kathryn Hansen, University of Texas at Austin

11:30am - 11:45am
Coffee Break

11:45am - 12:30pm
The Rhetorical Energy of Old Hindi Verse Structures
Rupert Snell, University of Texas at Austin

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch Break

2:00pm - 2:45pm
Mahadevi Varma: A Modern Mirabai?
Sarah Green, University of Texas at Austin

2:45pm - 3:30pm
Register and Dialect as Markers of Dalit Consciousness in Contemporary Hindi Fiction
Laura Brueck, University of Colorado

3:30pm - 3:45pm
Coffee Break

3:45pm - 4:30pm
The Language of a Saint: Colloquialisms and Philosophical Concepts
Jishnu Shankar, University of Texas at Austin