Sarang Raga (detail). from the Sirohi Ragamala; India, Rajasthan, Sirohi, ca. 1680–90; Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 23.2 x 17.8 cm; Freer Gallery of Art, F1992.18.

Yoga and Visual Culture: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Program

Thursday, November 21

6.30–6.45pm Opening Remarks

Yoga and the Sculpted Body
Vidya Dehejia

6.45–7.30pm Keynote Lecture

Inward Journeys: Yoga and Pilgrimage
B.N. Goswamy

Friday, November 22

9.30–11.00am   Session 1: Yoga and Place 

Yoga as Architecture
Michael W. Meister, University of Pennsylvania

The Medieval Indian Yoga Studio: Locating Places of Practice through Architecture, Image, and Text
Tamara I. Sears, Yale University

Bhakti as Yoga: Traces of Devotional Transformation in Seventeenth-century Bengal
Pika Ghosh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11.15–12.15pm   Session 2: The Buddha and Yoga

Holiness, Heat, and Hunger: Sculpting States of Mind
Robert DeCaroli, George Mason University

The Buddha as the Yogin: The Making of a Nationalist Art History
Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley

12.15–2.00pm   Lunch Break

2.00–3.00pm   Session 3: Tantra

Yogi, Jackal, and Goddess in Hindu Tantric Yoga
David Gordon White, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Yoga of the Yoginīs: Mapping the Goddesses’ Powers in Text and Image
Shaman Hatley, Concordia University, Montreal

3.00–4.00pm   Session 4: Asanas & Naths

From Tapas to Hard Yoga: The History of the Āsanas of Haṭhayoga
James Mallinson, University of Oxford

A Case Study of Bahr al-hayat
Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saturday, November 23

10.00–12.00pm   Session 5: Yoga and Print Culture

Strange and Wondrous: Early Modern European Views of Yogis
Robert J. Del Bontà

Austerity and Excess: Framing Contradiction in the Figure of the Indian Yogi
Hope Marie Childers, Alfred University

Nath Yogis in Mughal and Rajasthani Painting
Rosemary Crill, Victoria and Albert Museum

The Yogi, the Magician, and the Scientist: Discourses of Modernity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Representations of Yoga and Stage Magic
Patton Burchett, New York University

12.00–1.00pm   Lunch Break

1.00–2.00pm   Session 6: Modern Yoga

Photographing the Modern Yoga Body
Mark Singleton, St. John’s College, Santa Fe

Visions of Patañjali as an Authority on Yoga
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison