In February 2020, Professor Francesca Orsini attended the CAS Workshop at the University of Delhi where she gave the talk “Literature, Narrative and History: the lessons of Jayasi’s Padmāvat”.

Francesca Orsini, MULOSIGE

Narrative and literary history: the lessons of Jayasi’s Padmāvat

Watch Professor Francesca Orsini discuss “Narrative and literary history: the lessons of Jayasi’s Padmāvat” on the panel Beyond Diglossia, Legitimation and Patronage: Multilinguality, Genre and Innovation. Her talk is followed by Pankaj Jha, who speaks on “Locating Texts within Multilingual contexts: Reading Literature as a field of Politics”.

This session took place in the Department of History, Delhi University on the 26th February as part of the CAS Workshop 2020.