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A Confluence of Cultures
A Symposium on the
Art, History, and Culture of the
Vijayanagara Empire
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THE CENTER FOR INDIA STUDIES
in collaboration with
Charles B. Wang Center,
Department of Asian & Asian American Studies
Stony Brook University
and Kannada Vrunda, Houston
Present
A Confluence of Cultures
A Symposium on the
Art, History, and Culture of the
Vijayanagara Empire
Lectures, Period Music, and Dance
Charles B. Wang Center,
Stony Brook University
Sunday, November 6, 2005
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
This symposium is free and open to the public.
It will also be held in Houston and Los Angeles on successive Sundays.
The city of Vijayanagara "seemed to me as large as Rome, and very
beautiful; the best provided city in the world." - Domingo Paes,
Portuguese visitor in the 1520s.
The vibrant and prosperous Vijayanagara Empire (1336-1565) dominated
South India. It was a golden age of South Indian culture in art,
architecture, trade, learning, and literature, incorporating the
cross-currents of Hindu, Muslim, Portuguese, Kannada, Telugu, and
Tamil cultures.
In this multimedia symposium, renowned archeologists, art historians, and
linguists present a unique, integrated, three dimensional picture of
Vijayanagara as the upholder, assimilator and disseminator of artistic,
religious, literary, social and political traditions in South India.
Teachers and students of visual and performing arts, and everyone
interested in knowing about the history, religion, literature and arts of
India will find this symposium compelling and
valuable.
Enjoy this feast to the mind eyes and ears with your
friends.
PROGRAM
Dr. M.S.Nagaraja Rao
Former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India
Recent excavations in the City of Vijayanagara
Dr. Nalini Rao
Professor of Art History
Soka University of America, Los Angeles
Royal Authority & Sacral Kingship at Vijayanagara
Dr. Satish Magery
Stony Brook
Songs from the Vijayanagara period
Dr. Choodamani Nandagopal
Professor of Art History,
Indira Gandhi Center for the Arts, Bangalore
Religion and Art during Vijayanagara Times
Prof. S.N. Sridhar
Professor of Linguistics and India Studies
Stony Brook University
Kannada Literature during the Vijayanagara Period
Ms. Malini Srinivasan
Stony Brook
Bharatanatyam Dance
This Symposium is Free and Open to the Public, but seating is limited:
Please pre-register by calling 631-632-9742 or 632-4041
Or Email: indiastudies@stonybrook.edu
For more details, visit www.sunysb.edu/india
or www.sunysb.edu/aaas
http://www.stonybrook.edu/aaas/content/vijayanagara_flyer.pdf
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