{"id":22080,"date":"2024-04-02T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2024-09-17T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T19:10:05","slug":"events-to-spotlight-faculty-members-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/events-to-spotlight-faculty-members-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Events to Spotlight Faculty Member&#8217;s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Three upcoming events will spread the word of a new book by Kalamazoo College Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/academic\/programs\/religion\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/academic\/programs\/religion\/\">Religion<\/a> and Director of Film and Media Studies Sohini Pillai titled <em>Krishna\u2019s Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative<\/em> (the American Academy of Religion\u2019s Religion in Translation Series at Oxford University Press, March 22, 2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ancient Sanskrit <em>Mahabharata<\/em> is recognized as the longest poem ever composed and tells the tale of the five Pandava princes and the cataclysmic battle they wage with their 100 cousins,\u202fthe Kauravas. The story is among the most widely-told narratives in South Asia, and many Mahabharatas were created in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu, as well as other regional South Asian languages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pillai\u2019s book is a comprehensive study of premodern regional Mahabharata retellings, which argues that devotees of the Hindu god Vishnu and his various forms throughout South Asia turned the epic about an apocalyptic, bloody war into works of devotion focused on the Hindu deity Krishna. <em>Krishna\u2019s Mahabharatas<\/em> examines more than 40 retellings in 11 regional South Asian languages composed over a period of 900 years while focusing on two of them: Villiputturar\u2019s 15th-century Tamil <em>Paratam<\/em> and Sabalsingh Chauhan\u2019s 17th-century Bhasha (Old Hindi) <em>Mahabharat<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear from Pillai on her book through:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An in-person book celebration organized by K\u2019s Department of Religion at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the College\u2019s Olmsted Room at Mandelle Hall.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An online event through the Beneath the Canopy lecture and discussion series with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barkhadance.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barkha Patel<\/a> and Shachi Phene at 7 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, April 11. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aangannyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aangan: South Asian Center for Art and Thought<\/a> is organizing the event. Tickets are $15 and will soon be available <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/aangannyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at this link<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A virtual book launch at 6 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, April 18, organized by University of Florida Distinguished Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/religion.ufl.edu\/directory\/vasudha-narayanan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vasudha Narayanan<\/a> with Trinity University Assistant Professor of Religion Gregory Clines, University of Toronto Religion Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.religion.utoronto.ca\/people\/directories\/all-faculty\/srilata-raman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Srilata Raman<\/a>, and University of Chicago Associate Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/salc.uchicago.edu\/tyler-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tyler Williams<\/a>. The event will be hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/chitra.clas.ufl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions<\/a> at the University of Florida. Participate in this free event <a href=\"https:\/\/ufl.zoom.us\/j\/92615739289?pwd=SXZLeEJMUk5GQIZoRktVblRkK09xUt09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">through Zoom<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Sohini-Pillai-with-her-dog-Leia-the-Ewok-Princess-600x637.jpg\" alt=\"Sohini Pillai with her dog, Leia the Ewok Princess, and her new book\" class=\"wp-image-22081\" style=\"width:352px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Sohini-Pillai-with-her-dog-Leia-the-Ewok-Princess-600x637.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Sohini-Pillai-with-her-dog-Leia-the-Ewok-Princess-300x318.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Sohini-Pillai-with-her-dog-Leia-the-Ewok-Princess-141x150.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Sohini-Pillai-with-her-dog-Leia-the-Ewok-Princess.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kalamazoo College Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Film and Media Studies Sohini Pillai  holds her dog, Leia the Ewok Princess, and her new book, &#8220;Krishna\u2019s Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited about the publication of <em>Krishna\u2019s Mahabharatas<\/em>,\u201d Pillai said. \u201cI started the research for this book as a first-year Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in 2015, so I have been working on this project for nine years! The final <em>avatara<\/em> or \u2018incarnation\u2019 of this book came into being when I started teaching at Kalamazoo College. I am thankful for my supportive colleagues at K and for the many curious and enthusiastic K students I have had in my courses, and I hope that I have written a book that they will enjoy reading.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three upcoming events will spread the word of a new book by Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Film and Media Studies Sohini Pillai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":22088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,233,3],"tags":[66],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-staff","category-news","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Book Events Spotlight Faculty Member&#039;s Project - 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