Krishna in Springtime/A Symposium and Odissi Dance Performance

KRISHNA IN SPRINGTIME

A Symposium and Odissi Dance Performance

Throughout India, Krishna is worshiped as the Supreme Being who appears in various forms and moods. One such mood--especially remembered in spring--is that of the irresistible lover and beloved, entwined in relationship with the gopis of Vrindavan, above all with Radha. Three scholars will discuss these stories: literary expressions, devotional attitudes, juxtaposition of erotic and spiritual, gendered meanings,historical controversies. Then the stories will be embodied in Odissi dance.

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2005

2:30-5:00

Symposium at Levinthal Hall,, Stanford Humanities Center

*Edwin Bryant, Rutgers University:  Scandalous Krishna:Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Morality of the Bhagavata Purana 's Tales of Love

*Tracy Coleman, Colorado College:  Spiritual Freedom in Social Bondage: Gender, Desire, and Duty

in the Bhagavata Purana 's Construction of Hindu Bhakti

*Archana Venkatesan, St.Lawrence University:  Krishna,Give Us Back Our Clothes:

Antal 's Tamil Poetry of Love and its Srivaisnava Commentaries

6:00 Indian dinner available for $10.00.

You must reserve by May 3rd: lionda@stanford.edu

7:30 Vishnu Tattva Das with members of Odissi Vilas Dance Company - Clubhouse Ballroom

Co-Sponsors: Stanford Humanities Center, Hindu Students Council

The Asian Religions and Cultures Initiative and Department of Religious Studies

of Stanford University present

The Evans-Wentz Lectureship in Asian Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics