Rebecca Manring presented a paper titled “Devotional Self-Destruction: How a Narcissistic Dancer Fell to Earth and Birthed a Mighty Champion” at the annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, WI, held in late October. At the same conference she chaired a roundtable discussion on Even Less Commonly Taught Languages: Developing and Sustaining Language Education for Under-Resourced South Asian Languages.
The Annual Conference on South Asia invites scholars, students, and professionals to Madison, Wisconsin, for a three-day event featuring research panels and round tables, lectures, performances, film screenings, booksellers, association receptions, and other special presentations. The conference has grown year-by-year since its inception in 1971, welcoming over 1100 registered attendees in 2019.
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