Creating New Worlds: Multilingualism, Visual Arts, the Poetic Imagination
Friday, June 1st, 2018
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, June 1, 2018 | 9:00AM - 6:30PM | Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place |
Series
Tamil Studies Conference in Memory of Chelva Kanaganayakam
Description
This conference explores the role of creativity across literary and visual media in Tamil worlds. Our current situation is one that is profoundly shaped by dynamics of translation across worlds and languages, as Prof. Kanaganayakam argued through his work and life. In this context, how might we open the larger history of Tamil aesthetics from a perspective that values multiplicity as foundational to creativity itself? How are hybrid pasts recruited to speak to questions of endurance and resistance in the present? Spanning over a millennium of artistic production and aesthetic reflections, from ancient India to contemporary Sri Lanka, the research presented here will address these questions and focus on modalities of creative practice that engage with multiplicities, internal and external, as the grounds upon which new worlds in Tamil are made.
Coffee, Pastries, and Welcome: 9:00-9:45 am
Welcome Remarks 9:45-10:00 am
Session 1: Multilingualism in Tamil Literary Worlds, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Anne Monius (Harvard University)
Multilingualism in the Tamil Grammatical Tradition
Giovanni Ciotti (Universität Hamburg)
On the Use of the Linguistic Label ‘Maṇipravālam’ in Some Palm-leaf Manuscripts from Tamil Nadu
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai (Cornell University)
Vedāntadeśika’s Multilingualism: Tamil and Sanskrit Verses in the Maṇipravāḷam Rahasyatrayasāram
Suganya Anandakichenin (École Française d’Êxtreme Orient, Pondicherry)
Juggling with Two Languages: The Techniques of Explanation and Interpretation in Aḻakiya Maṇavāḷa Cīyar’s Paṉṉīrāyirappaṭi Commentary on the Tiruvāymoḻi.
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
Session 2: Multilingualism in Tamil Literary Worlds, 1:00-2:30 pm
Krissy Roghan (University of Toronto)
Charting Courses of Tamiḻ Pulamai in Colonial South India
Christoph Emmrich (University of Toronto)
Tamil Jainism and the Multilingual Jain
Srilata Raman (University of Toronto)
Discussant
2:30 -3:00 break
Session 3: Art as World Making, 3:00-4:30 pm
S. Jeyasankar (Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies, Batticaloa)
Scarecrows: Activist Art of the People and By the People
Vasuki Jeyasankar (Artist, Batticaloa)
Art for Social Change: Experiences of a Feminist Artist
Nedra Rodrigo (York University)
Panel Chair and Discussion Facilitator
4:30-5:00 tea break and remarks
Session 4: Embodiment, Territoriality, Translation and Culture, 5:00-6:30 pm
P. Ahilan (University of Jaffna)
Embodiment: Territories and territorialities of the poetry of 1980’s Jaffna
Geetha Sukumaran (York University)
Saramakavikal: Ahilan’s poetry and its Translation
Nergis Canefe (York University)
Panel Chair and Discussion Facilitator
Conference Organizers: Darshan Ambalavanar, Francis Cody, Christoph Emmrich, Srilata Raman
With Special Support from: Kirubhalini Giruparajah, Neerajah Vignarajah, Bhavani Raman, Kuruparan Selvarajah
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