2014 COSAL Program

All events in Classics 110 unless otherwise noted.

Friday, May 2

• 9:30 Coffee
• 9:45 Welcome-Ulrike Stark
• 10:00 Remembrance of Namdev Dhasal and Sharmila Rege-Philip Engblom, Joya John, and Vidyut Bhagwat
• 10:15 Introduction of 2014 Featured Author-Philip Engblom
  Poetry Reading by Malika Amar Shaikh (video)
  (translations to follow read by Sachin Ketkar)
• 12:00 Conference Lunch (Foster 103)
• 1:30 Introduction of Keynote Speaker-Tarini Bedi, University of Illinois, Chicago
  Keynote Address-Vidyut Bhagwat, Prof. Emerita, University of Pune
  "Women's Writings in Maharashtra: Conversations with Contemporaries"
• 2:45 Coffee Break

Paper Session 1, Chair: Gary Tubb

• 3:00 Sachin Ketkar, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
  "The Primeval Woman in the City: Modernism in Poetry of Malika Amarsheikh"
• 4:00 Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State University
  "Mahadaise: the First Marathi Woman Poet"
• 5:00 Reception
• 6:00 Conference dinner (Foster 103)

Saturday, May 3

• 10:00 Coffee
• 10:30 Filmed Reading: Prose-Malika Amar Shaikh
  (with translations following by Philip Engblom)
• 12:00 Conference Lunch (Foster 103)

Paper Session 2, Chair: Sascha Ebeling

• 1:30 Madhuri Deshmukh, Oakton College, Chicago
  "Janabai's Bhakti and the Making of Marathi Literature"
• 2:30 Philip Engblom, University of Chicago
  The Hazards of House and Home: Translating Kamal Desai's Ranga
• 3:30 Meera Kosambi, Prof. Emerita, SNDT University, Mumbai
  "Gained in Translation: Experiences with Women's Marathi prose writings, 1880s-1940s"
• 4:30 Coffee Break
• 4:45 Roundtable Discussion-Nisha Kommattam, moderator
• 5:30 Closing Remarks-
• 7:00 Conference Dinner (participants only)