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Public Lecture: King’s Body/Nature’s Sign: Gender and Ornament in the Astral State with Dr. Marko Geslani
February 2, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Join the Religious Studies Department on February 2, 2023 from 5:00pm-6:15pm in Murphey 118 for this job talk and public lecture. Reception to follow in Carolina Hall.
Marko Geslani (PhD, Yale 2011) is a historian of religion specializing in ritual studies and medieval Hinduism. His first book, Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism (OUP 2018), forms a historiographic critique of Hinduism through a history of omen-appeasement (śānti) rituals, from late Vedic ritual manuals to medieval Hindu purāṇas. His current research explores the role of the astral tradition (jyotiḥśāstra) on the problems of personhood and state formation in early Hinduism, engaging theories of gender, masculinity, and ornamentation. He is also working on a racial critique of the study of Asian religions as a setting for new approaches to Orientalism and premodern Asian studies.