What the Women Said: On Love and Sorrows in Old Tamil Poetry
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
All students and faculty are invited to a stimulating talk by Prof Martha Selby. Prof. Selby is a professor of comparative literature and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. She is an accomplished translator. Her research interests are representations of women, birth, and disease in classical Indian medicine. Sanskrit poetry and poetics, Prakrit and Old Tamil poetry, modern Tamil fiction, and Sanskrit medical literature.
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- Location
- Flamingo Room, UH Hilton Hotel
- Cost
- Free
- Contact
- Bhavya
Tiwari
Phone: (713)-743-1737
Email: btiwari@uh.edu