The 9th Annual Conference on Tamil Studies at UC Berkeley
Friday, May 3 ~ Sunday, May 5, 2013
As the authoritative 13th c. linguistic treatise Nannul knew well, research in Tamil demands engagement with a dynamic variety of expressive modes. Difference is everywhere marked—historical period, geographic extension, social footing, linguistic register, performative context—and Tamil authors of written and spoken texts attended to these differences as they sought the consideration of audiences. Who, across the dramatic range of public expressions of Tamil in its two millennia of textual expression, is eligible to listen and to participate? Such questions are particularly acute in the study of emerging Tamil modernities, of which colonial modernity is but one. In this rewarding array of papers, the ninth annual Berkeley Tamil Conference explores the role of audience in the articulation of Tamil language and culture. How is a listening public conceived, when shifting bonds of thinkers, creators, and addressees create new possibilities for expression, as well as new limits? From the pragmatics of acculturation, as infants learn to be social participants and youths become educated subjects, to new possibilities for vernacular expression in specialized cultural idioms, conference panelists will engage with processes of authorial intent and textual reception, understanding their critical place in the expression of community.
Keynote Lecture:
The Birth of the Tamil Author
by A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Madras Institute of Development Studies
Friday, May 3
4:30PM
Venue: 10 Stephens, (CSAS Conference Room)
Conference
Saturday, May 4 ~Sunday, May 5, 2013
Venue: 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Participants:
Bios and paper abstracts
- Prof Bernard Bate, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
- Prof Rudhramoorthy Cheran, University of Windsor
- Prof Sascha Ebeling, University of Chicago
- Prof Kaori Hatsumi, Kalamazoo College
- Prof Bharati Jagannathan, Delhi University
- Tasha Manoranjan, People for Equality and Relief in Sri Lanka (pearlaction.org)
- Prof Dennis McGilvray, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Shakthi Nataraj, University of California, Berkeley
- Prof. Gita V. Pai, University of California, Berkeley
- Prof Kalpana Ram, Macquarie University, Australia
- Preeti M. Talwai, University of California, Berkeley
- Prof Margaret Trawick, Massey University, New Zealand
- Bharat Venkat, University of California, Berkeley
- Kristin Bergman Waha, University of California, Davis
- Convener: Prof. Blake Wentworth, University of California, Berkeley
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Center for South Asia Studies
University of California, Berkeley
10 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2310
southasia.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3608
Fax: 510-643-5793
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DM (11 avril 2013). 9th Annual Conference on Tamil Studies, Berkeley, 3–5 May 2013. SRI LANKA & DIASPORAS. Consulté le 16 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/u7xe