COSAL Program

All events in Classics 110 unless otherwise noted.

Friday, May 4

• 9:30 Coffee
• 9:45 Welcome—Valerie Ritter and Steven Collins
• 10:00 Remembrance of Norman Cutler—Paula Richman and Bernard Bate
• 10:30 Introduction of 2007 Featured Author—Sascha Ebeling
  Reading and Q&A: Poetry—Salma
  (translations to follow read by Sascha Ebeling and Valerie Ritter)
• 12:00 Lunch break
• 2:00 Introduction of Keynote Speaker—David Shulman
  Keynote Address—A. R. Venkatachalapathy
• 3:00 Coffee Break
• 3:30 Presentations—Paula Richman, discussant and moderator
  Bernard Bate—"Naaladiyar in the Bajaar: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Public Sphere"
  Lakshmi Holmström—"The Tiger in the Picture: A Reading of Salma's Novel Irandaam Jaamangalin Kadai"
  David Shulman—"Beyond the Margin: On G. Nagarajan and Tomorrow is One More Day"
• 5:30 Closing Remarks—Sam Sudanandha
• Break
• 6:30 Conference Dinner

Saturday, May 5

• 10:00 Coffee
• 10:30 Opening remarks—Sally Noble and Valerie Ritter
• 11:00 Reading and Q&A: Prose—Salma
  (with translations following by Lakshmi Holmström)
• 12:30 Conference Lunch
• 2:00 @ Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall
  Film screening of SheWrite
  Introduction—James Lindholm
  Q&A—Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar
• 4:15 Roundtable Discussion—Sascha Ebeling, moderator
  [all participants; description TBA]
• 5:15 Closing Remarks—Yigal Bronner