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- The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with João Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the US, and Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the US12:30 pm
- Physics Colloquium3:30 pm
- ECE Seminar with Dan Feldman4:00 pm
- Muslimness and the Spatial State of Emergency: Lessons Learned on Grounded Politics Among Muslims in a Copenhagen Neighborhood4:00 pm
- Teaching the Body: A Lecture by Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas Dept., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston5:00 pm
- One Drop Rule: Colorism and Black Consciousness5:00 pm
- Jack Falla Speaker Series: Ben Sturner5:00 pm
- Does God Speak Tamil or Sanskrit? On the Infancy of a Tamil Goddess5:30 pm
- BU UEA Economics Alumni Panel6:00 pm
- Capturing the Changing Cityscape: Visual Expressions of the Built Environment6:00 pm
Does God Speak Tamil or Sanskrit? On the Infancy of a Tamil Goddess
The Boston University Program in Scripture & the Arts presents David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Many languages claim to be God's most intimate and natural medium of communication. In southern India this theme involves the relations between Sanskrit and Tamil, two languages that are often seen as hostile entities by Tamil nationalists. However, in pre-modern south India they were bound together in a complex and complimentary relationship. Dr. Shulman will explore the Tamil-Sanskrit interface as seen in a seventeenth-century text by the great poet Kumarakuruparar on the infancy of the goddess Minaksi. Each verse of this poem projects a strong vision of the Tamil language itself as a living, thinking, feeling goddess. Reception to follow. For more information, contact scripart@bu.edu.
When | 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 |
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Location | BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road |