Program
Program Overview Plenary Sessions Program for the Sessions
The timetable for the conference is available here, and the book of abstracts is available here.
The venue of the plenary sessions can be found here, and the venue of the section presentations here.
Program Overview
3rd September
8:30 Registration
9:30 Opening ceremony
10:00 Plenary session
10:40 Coffee break
11:10 Plenary session
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Section presentations (Linguistics, Epics and purāṇas, Buddhism)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Section presentations (Linguistics, Dravidian studies, Philosophy)
4th September
9:00 Plenary session
10:20 Coffee break
10:50 Section presentations (Literature, Sciences, Philosophy)
12:20 Lunch break
14:00 Section presentations (Literature, History, Philosophy)
18:00 Cultural program, reception at the embassy
Plenary sessions
3rd September
| 10:00 | Shonaleeka Kaul (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) The antonimic didactic: Humans, animals, and flight from tradition in the Hitopadeśa |
| 11:10 | Alexander Lubotsky (Leiden University) Post-caesura position and its importance in the Ṛgvedic meter |
| 11:50 | Peter Bisschop (Leiden University) Sanatkumāra’s teachings to Vyāsa: Reflections on purāṇic processes of canonisation |
4th September
| 9:00 | Harunaga Isaacson (University of Hamburg) Homage, rivalry: Classical Sanskrit poets and their allusions to the poetry of their predecessors |
| 9:40 | Hugo David (École française d'Extrême-Orient, Paris) The two lives of a verse: Ambiguity and its resolution from Bhartṛhari to Appayya Dīkṣita |
Program for the sessions
| Linguistics | Epics and Purāṇas |
| Buddhism | Dravidian studies |
| Philosophy | Literature |
| Sciences | History |
Linguistics
3rd September
| 14:00 | Andrey Klebanov (University of Hamburg) On the construction odanaḥ pacyate |
| 14:30 |
Manish Rajan Walvekar (MIT-ADT University, Pune) |
| 15:00 | Imre Bangha (University of Oxford) The transition from Apabhramsha to New Indo-Aryan in Jain narratives in Madhyadeśa |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Máté Ittzés (Eötvös Loránd University) Archaisms and innovations in the neuter s-stems of the Indo-Iranian languages |
| 16:30 | Alex Roy (University of California, Los Angeles) Complex predication between Old and New Indo-Aryan |
| 17:00 | Leonardo Montesi (Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome) Root-ing for lexical aspect in derivative morphology: Findings from Early Vedic *-ti- and *-tu- derivatives |
Epics and Purāṇas
3rd September
| 14:00 | Sven Sellmer (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Are epic formulas traditional? |
| 14:30 | Péter Száler (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) „Parallel lives”: Kaṃsa and Karṇa |
| 15:00 | Charles Li (University of Hamburg) Reconstructing the purāṇic imaginary of the śyenakapotīya |
Buddhism
3rd September
| 14:00 | Gergely Hidas (Dharma Gate Buddhist College, Budapest) Mahāmeghasūtra – a Buddhist ritual text: Towards a critical edition |
| 14:30 | Chamal Nishanta Pratapasinghe (University of Hamburg) Once the bodhisattva was a lover: Rethinking the Sudhanakumāra-avadāna in the Divyāvadāna |
| 15:00 | Gleb Sharygin (Bavarian State Library, Munich) A thorny road to canonicity? Glimpses from the hitherto unknown Buddhist Sanskrit sūtra |
Dravidian studies
3rd September
| 16:00 | Eva Wilden (University of Hamburg) Flooded, eaten by insects, or simply forgotten: How do Tamil’s canonical texts survive? |
| 16:30 | Jean-Luc Chevillard (University of Hamburg, Paris Diderot University) What is the price to pay for giving a classical language an international outreach? The case of Tamil and its Latin-speaking users |
| 17:00 | Sivan Goren-Arzony (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan) On enemies and stomachs: The Līlātilakam and the first standardisation of Malayalam |
Philosophy
3rd September
| 16:00 | Karen O’Brien-Kop (King’s College, London) Tradition and innovation in the question of god: The doctrine of īśvara in Pātañjala yoga and Śaṅkara’s response in the Vivaraṇa |
| 16:30 | Ivan Andrijanić (University of Zagreb) The Nṛsiṃhapūrvatāpanīya-Bhāṣya and the Prapañcasāra: Stylometry, philology, and the question of common authorship |
| 17:00 | Anna Katalin Aklan (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Rāmānuja’s commentary on Brahmasūtra 1.1.1 |
4th September
| 10:50 | Ołena Łucyszyna (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Is liberation natural (or spontaneous) in Sāṃkhya? |
| 11:20 | Akshara Ravishankar (Ghent University) The Bhagavad Gītā as worldly manual: Innovation and circulation in the ‘greater Gītā’ traditions |
| 12:20 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Judit Törzsök (EPHE-PSL University, Paris) How to open your eyes? Kṣemarāja’s (1000–1050) innovative reply |
| 14:30 | Jinghui Liang (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris) Between convention and intention: Mukula, Mammaṭa and Someśvara on the interpretation of idiomatic usage |
| 15:00 | Himanshu (IIT Bombay, Mumbai) Prasiddhi: An inexhaustible ground of scripture and the mundane world in the Tantrāloka |
Literature
4th September
| 10:50 | Melinda Zulejka Fodor (EPHE-PSL University, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris) Folk, folk-like, folk-less: Traditions and innovations in the Saṭṭaka genre (9th–18th c.) |
| 11:20 | Heleen De Jonckheere (Ghent University) How the ‘piśāca of poetry’ pushes poetics at the Rāṣtrakūṭa Court: Puṣpadanta’s Apabhramsha Mahāpurāṇu |
| 11:50 | Haruki Tsuji (University of Tokyo) From ornament to satirical device: Śleṣa in Kṣemendra’s Deśopadeśa |
| 12:20 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | Csaba Dezső (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Translation as poetic practice in kāvya |
| 14:30 | Gil Ben-Herut (University of South Florida, Tampa) Innovation, not revolution: The twelfth-century literary turn in Kannada literature |
| 15:30 | Ivana Delić (University of Zagreb) From description to classification: The (un)making of linguistic and cultural canons in Filip Vesdin’s Voyage to the East Indies (1796) |
Sciences
4th September
| 10:50 | Vitus Angermeier (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) The formation of Āyurveda: Consolidation by brahmanisation |
| 11:20 | Debasish Ghorui (independent researcher) – Ritwij Bhowmik (IIT Kanpur) Between mind and matter: Reading materiality and embodied practice beyond the canons of śilpaśāstras |
| 11:50 | Priyamvada Nambrath (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Vernacular commentary and the reconfiguration of canon: The Gaṇita Yuktibhāṣā in early modern Kerala |
History
4th September
| 14:00 | Roland Ferenczi (University of Hamburg) Rites of sovereignty: Vedic ritual practice in the Tamil royal courts |
| 14:30 | Dániel Balogh (Humboldt University of Berlin) We are kings of kings, but how to pitch that to the world? Shifting conventions in Cālukya dynastic eulogy |
| 15:00 | Ryan Conlon (University of Hamburg) Language politics in 11th-century India: Arguments concerning vernaculars and written media in the Kālacakra |