Jaisingh's Jaipur - Conf. Schedule

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JAISINGH'S JAIPUR:

Scientific, Religious, and Artistic Mediations at Court

 

The Barbara Stoler Miller Memorial Conference for 2003

co-sponsored by the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University;

Barnard College; the Asia Society; and the Hill Center

 

Friday-Sunday, February 7-9, 2003

 

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Opening Friday evening session:

 

Reception for conference participants, Asia Society, 5:30-6:30

Paired illustrated public lectures at the Asia Society, 6:30-8:00

 

Jaipur between Hindus and Muslims:

 

Shrivatsa Goswami, Jaipur in the mind of Jaisingh II:

Sri Caitanya Prem Sansthan Rajput/Mughal relations

 

Catherine Asher, Building Interreligious Jaipur

University of Minnesota

 

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Saturday morning session:

 

Publicly accessible but specialized scholarly seminar, 10:00-12:00

Butler Library or 1134 International Affairs, Columbia

 

The Exact Sciences between Indic and Islamic traditions:

 

David Pingree, Jagannatha's Siddhanta Kaustubha

Brown University and its Use of Islamic Sources

 

Kim Plofker, Indian and Islamic Instruments at

Brown University the Court of Jaisingh

 

Christopher Minkowski, [TBA]

Cornell University

 

[Tour of the Columbia Rare Books Room collection of Jaisingh's

scientific instruments, 12:15-1:00. Members of the "Exact Sciences"

seminar in addition to personnel from the Rare Book Collection, Butler

Library.]

 

Lunch, Southern Asian Institute, 1:00-2:00

 

Saturday afternoon session:

 

Publicly accessible scholarly seminar, 2:15-5:15

Schermerhorn 501, Columbia

 

Court as Medium of Mediation: Art, Religion, Science

 

Monika Horstmann, Sectarian Disputations at Jaisingh's Court

Sud-Asien Institut, Heidelberg

 

Molly Emma Aitken, The Court of Jaipur and Artistic Exchange

Columbia University

 

Indira Peterson, Intercultural Mediation at

Columbia University Serfoji's Tanjavur

 

Honored Guests:

Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University

Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University

Navina Haidar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

James Hastings, Wake Forest University

Michael Meister, University of Pennsylvania

William Pinch, Wesleyan University

 

Conference Reception, 5:30-6:30, Southern Asian Institute

 

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Sunday morning session:

 

Seminar with High School Teachers

Ella Weed Room, Milbank Hall, Barnard College, 10:00-12:30

 

Jaisingh's Jaipur as a focus for teaching Muslim-Hindu relations

in South Asia

 

Members of the conference and associates of the Hill Center,

with an Indo-Muslim Web presentation by Frances Pritchett,

Columbia University