Affect in Tibetan Poetry and Songs

AFFECT IN TIBETAN POETRY AND SONGS

Panel A
Session #6 | 1:30pm - 3pm | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 186

Lama Jabb, University of Oxford
Capturing the Tibetan World within the Poetic Image

Nancy Lin, Vanderbilt University
Ordinary Flourishing in the Writings of Zhuchen Tsültrim Rinchen

Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University
Aesthetics of Affect in Modern Tibetan Literary Theory

Panel B
Session #7 | 3:30pm - 5pm | Sunday, Sept 3 | HUMN 186

Jann Ronis, UC Berkeley
“A cold draft is now blowing/ In this sad world” – The Language of Sadness in the Poetry of Tenzin Gyatso (b.1968)

Holly Gayley, University of Colorado Boulder
Love without Attachment: The Tantric Expression of Amorous Moods in Tibetan Verse

Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University
The Sweet Taste of Difficult Relationships: The Unnamable Rasa of Separation from the Guru

Organizers:

Nicole Willock (Old Dominion University) nwillock@odu.edu
Holly Gayley (University of Colorado Boulder) gayley@colorado.edu