To register for the webinar, please visit https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions
Where did yoga come from? And what is it doing here? These are questions we investigate in ASIA 210: “Traditions of Yoga” at UBC. As a public extension of this course, we are pleased to invite you to join us on Wednesday afternoons in March and April, as we welcome noted scholars to discuss how and why they study yoga through historical, cultural, and critical lenses.
• March 23, 4PM [PDT]: Daniela Bevilacqua (SOAS, London), “How Sadhus Understand Hatha Yoga”
Description:
In this talk I demonstrate how ethnographic data can help us understand but also question the role and the function of textual sources, and can also be helpful for exploring and positioning modern yoga. Considering textual, visual and oral sources we are going to reconstruct the meaning, and by consequence the practice, of haṭha yoga and yoga according to contemporary Hindu ascetics in India, focusing our attention on sādhus belonging to traditional orders associated with these embodied practices (i.e., Nāth Yogīs, Saṃnyāsīs, Rāmānandīs and Udāsīs). The aim of the talk is to present emic understandings of concepts and labels that can help us widen our comprehension of an issue as complex as yoga.
Bio:
Daniela Bevilacqua (PhD, Univ. of Rome, Sapienza) is a South Asianist specializing in Hindu asceticism, as investigated through ethnographic and historical perspectives. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for the ERC- funded Haṭha Yoga Project (2015– 2020) at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (SOAS. She is currently a Research Fellow at SOAS.
• March 30, 4PM [PDT]: Paul Bramadat (Univ. of Victoria), “Yoga and the Public Square”
• April 6, 4PM [PDT]: Rumya Putcha (Univ. of Georgia) & Shreena Gandhi (Michigan State Univ.), “Yoga and Settler Colonialism”
• March 23, 4PM [PDT]: Daniela Bevilacqua (SOAS, London), “How Sadhus Understand Hatha Yoga”
Description:
In this talk I demonstrate how ethnographic data can help us understand but also question the role and the function of textual sources, and can also be helpful for exploring and positioning modern yoga. Considering textual, visual and oral sources we are going to reconstruct the meaning, and by consequence the practice, of haṭha yoga and yoga according to contemporary Hindu ascetics in India, focusing our attention on sādhus belonging to traditional orders associated with these embodied practices (i.e., Nāth Yogīs, Saṃnyāsīs, Rāmānandīs and Udāsīs). The aim of the talk is to present emic understandings of concepts and labels that can help us widen our comprehension of an issue as complex as yoga.
Bio:
Daniela Bevilacqua (PhD, Univ. of Rome, Sapienza) is a South Asianist specializing in Hindu asceticism, as investigated through ethnographic and historical perspectives. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for the ERC- funded Haṭha Yoga Project (2015– 2020) at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (SOAS. She is currently a Research Fellow at SOAS.
• March 30, 4PM [PDT]: Paul Bramadat (Univ. of Victoria), “Yoga and the Public Square”
• April 6, 4PM [PDT]: Rumya Putcha (Univ. of Georgia) & Shreena Gandhi (Michigan State Univ.), “Yoga and Settler Colonialism”
This series is presented by the Dept. of Asian Studies at UBC, in collaboration with the Yoga Studies Network (UVic).
All events are free ZOOM webinars and open to the public. The sessions will not be recorded.
For more information on the speakers & topics, and to register & get your link for the ZOOM webinars, please visit: https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions/
All events are free ZOOM webinars and open to the public. The sessions will not be recorded.
For more information on the speakers & topics, and to register & get your link for the ZOOM webinars, please visit: https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions/
TO REGISTER for the ZOOM Webinars, please visit:
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https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50rdeyurzgoHNHLAipHyt33443wqBN6AyjJ