Double Doubleheader In October, Indira Peterson, professor of Asian studies, delivered a paper titled “Subversive Journeys? The 1820 Benares Pilgrimage of King Serfoji II of Tanjore as Resistance to Colonial Authority” at the New England conference of the Association of Asian Studies at Brown University. Last month, she also gave a paper titled “Reimagining Performance Culture through the Novel: The Construction of Nineteenth-Century Tamil Temple Dance and Music Traditions in ‘Tillana Mohanambal',” at the annual South Asia conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Ying Wang, assistant professor of Chinese, also attended the Association of Asian Studies conference at Brown and delivered two papers there. One was titled “The Rulers behind the Curtain: Women's Power and Sphere in the Period of Dynastic Transition in the Shi ji,” and the other was “Cultural Consciousness Versus Cultural Bias: A Discussion of the Content of Chinese Textbooks.”

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