Friday, April 12, 2024

1 p.m. | Welcome & Opening Comments
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Michael Laffan, Princeton University
• Harini Kumar, Princeton University

1:15 - 2:45 p.m. | Session 1 | Trance and Transplantation
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Michael Laffan, Princeton University
• Clare Anderson, University of Leicester and Lorraine Paterson, University of Leicester
• Crispin Branfoot, SOAS University of London
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2:45 - 3 p.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

3 - 4:30 p.m. | Session 2 | Concerning Carnival
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Teren Sevea, Harvard Divinity School
• Julia Byl, University of Alberta
• Torsten Tschacher, University of Heidelberg

4:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

4:45 - 6:15 p.m. | Session 3 | Around the Arabian Sea
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Daniel Sheffield, Princeton University
• Michael Lambek, University of Toronto
• Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Saturday, April 13, 2024

9 - 10:30 a.m. | Session 4 | The Lankan Arena
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania
• Frank J. Korom, Boston University
• Neena Mahadev, Yale-NUS College (Singapore)

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Session 5 | Bodies of Knowledge
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Lucinda Ramberg, Cornell University
• Smriti Srinivas, University of California, Davis
• Harini Kumar, Princeton University

12:15 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall

1:30 - 3 p.m. | Wrap Up
Location: 211 Dickinson Hall

• Harini Kumar, Princeton University
• Michael Laffan, Princeton University

3 p.m. | Conference Concludes