FACULTY NEWS

• FACULTY NEWS
  
  Don Davis served as Co-Chair for the Law & Society section of the XIIIth World Sanskrit Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland from July 10-14, 2006. 
  
  
•  FACULTY RESEARCH
  
  G. Buhnemann spent the summer of 2006 doing research in Nepal . She was awarded a Resident Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will be on leave from teaching this fall semester.
  
  

  Don Davis edited Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmasastra by Ludo Rocher, a collection of more than forty articles by one of the great scholars of Hindu Law. The edition includes a critical introduction and will be published in the Sources of Indian Law series by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi in 2007.
  
  

• CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, PAPERS
  
  Gudrun Buhnemann gave a lecture titled "Religiöser Synkretismus in Nepal" (Religious Syncretism in Nepal)  at the Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften of the University of Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 2006 and presented a paper titled "Sivalingas and Caityas in Cremation Ground Representations from Nepal" at the 13th World Sanskrit Conference held in Edinburgh on July 13, 2006.
  
  Don Davis presented the paper "Hinduism as Legal Tradition" at the American Academy of Religion Conference in November 2005, as well as in the South Asia Seminars of the University of Iowa and UW-Madison.  He also presented "Matrilineal Adoption, Inheritance Law, and Rites for the Dead among Hindus in Medieval Kerala" at Washington & Lee University in May 2006.  That paper will appear in a Festschrift for Patrick Olivelle in the near future.  In July 2006, Don gave a paper on "Maxims and Precedent in Classical Hindu Law" at the XIIIth World Sanskrit Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  
  
• FACULTY AWARDS
   
  Don Davis was awarded a fellowship at the UW-Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities for the Spring 2007 to begin work on new book, tentatively entitled The Spirit of Hindu Law: A Conceptual Introduction, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
  
  
  Aparna Dharwadker  has received a Senior AIIS Fellowship for 2007-08 to complete archival and other research for her current project, A Poetics of Modernity: Theories of Drama, Theatre, and Performance in India, 1860-2005. 
  
  She has also been named the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book in Theatre and Drama. The award is sponsored by the faculty of the Arts and Sciences, Department of English, at New York University, and the prize awarded every other year.  Her book is titled, Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory and Urban Performance in India since 1947 (U of Iowa Press and Oxford University Press India). The book has been praised as a "wide-ranging and authoritative study [that] ushers in a vital new era in the study of the drama and theatre of India," and a "brilliantly theorized identification of a post-independence dramatic canon on the subcontinent ... an extraordinary contribution to postcolonial literary and performance theory [that] will shape that field in the years ahead. Read press release
  
  
  
• RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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