Joyce Flueckiger, “When the World Becomes Female: Religious Festival in South India”
LaRose Digital Theater, Koury Business School, 7:30 p.m.
Author of numerous books on Indian culture and religion, Flueckiger specializes in performance studies and anthropology of religion with a particular interest in gender. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in India with both Hindu and Muslim popular traditions. She will speak about the goddess tradition and festival of Gangamma (one of seven village-goddess sisters) based on experiences in Tirupati, South India. Sponsored by the Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies (PERCS), Project Pericles, Women’s/Gender Studies, International Programs, and the departments of Religious Studies, History & Geography, Sociology & Anthropology.