| Date | Time | Location |
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| Thursday, April 21, 2022 | 10:00AM - 11:30AM | Online Event, Online Event |
Commenting on the suggestiveness of the particle “khalu” (for sure) that appears as the penultimate word in a verse in Kalidas’s famous play, Abhijnana Shakuntalam, David Schulman says: “In a world of continually compounded resonances such as that embodied in a good Sanskrit verse, no word, indeed no syllable, is likely to be entirely innocent.” Taking this aspect of language in which the impishness of words, the capacity for curved speech makes relations fraught with dangers I attempt to put some theories of Austin’s notions of the perlocutionary in conversation with the way the curse appears in Sanskrit grammar and poetics with special reference to Valmiki and Panini. The overarching question here is whether passion is added to language from the outside or is it integral to the experience of language?
SPEAKER’S BIO:
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at the Department ofAnthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein (2020); Voix de l’ordinarie (2022) Slum Acts (2022) and act-edited volume Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for DarkTimes. Das is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of British Academy and has received honorary doctorates from the Universitiesof Chicago, Edinburgh, Durham, and Bern.
This event is the keynote presentation in the Centre for South Asian Studies Graduate Symposium. Please find the full details on the Symposium and register for the panels at https://csasgradsymposium2022.eventbrite.ca
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