Ramayanas across Asia - Transnation, translation and transformation

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Key information

Date
Time
9:45 am to 5:00 pm
Venue
SOAS (College Building)
Room
C325

About this event

Contesting the notion of a singular version of the Ramayana, this works in progress workshop showcases emerging scholarship on Ramayana traditions across Asia.

Programme

Time Topic Presenters 
9:45am - 10:00amWelcome remarks
10:00am - 11:30am
  • 'The Disconnected Translation of the Ramayana in China'
Dr Zezhou Yang (NUS Singapore) (online)
  • 'Roboticized the Ramakien: The Reinvention of the Body and Thainess in Thai Animated Films'
Dr Saranpat Boonhok (Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand): 
11:30am - 12:00pmTea break (provided by SOAS)
12 noon - 1:30pm
  • 'The Ramayana through the Lens of Film and Television'
Dr Justin Henry (University of South Florida)
  • 'Transnation, Translation, and Transmedia: the Rāmāyana between Japan and India in the 20th century'
Dr Paride Stortini (Ghent University): 
1:30pm - 3:00pmLunch break
3:00pm - 4:30pm
  • 'Sita's Surpanakha: Representing Violence and Disability in Feminist adaptations of the Ramayana'
Dr Anandi Rao (SOAS)
  • 'The Recasting of Evil: the Warrior Ravana in Pursuit of Love'
Tongchen Hou (SOAS) (online)
4:30pm - 5:00pmConcluding remarks

Image: Wahyu Ady (Unsplash)

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