We are pleased to announce the programme of the
12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium
Vienna/online, July 22nd to 24th, 2021 (UTC+2)
We are planning the symposium as a hybrid event, but expect that most people will only be able to participate online. Information on registration will follow at the end of June.
Day 1: Thursday, July 22nd | ||
9:00-9:30 | Welcoming Session | |
Section 1: Myths, Rituals, and Religious Ideologies. Chair: Marion Rastelli | ||
9:30-10:00 | Amandine Wattelier-Bricout: Which Soteriological Path Do the Myths Told in the Skandapurāṇa Suggest? A Case Study: Sukeśa and His Ancestors (SP35-SP51) | |
10:00-10:30 | Dominique Marcel Baur: Of Toothsticks, Dreams and Lizards: Omens in Jyotiḥśāstra, Pāñcarātra-Saṃhitās and Purāṇas | |
— Break — | ||
11:00-11:30 | Barbora Sojkova: When Cows Sacrifice | |
11:30-12:00 | Anna Scarabel: Svāmī Karapātrī and Dayānanda Sarasvatī: Two Competing Discourses on Icon Worship | |
12:00-12:30 | Chiara Policardi: The Elephant-Faced Goddess in Mediaeval Śaiva Tantric Traditions: Female Gaṇeśa or Independent Deity? | |
— Lunch Break — | ||
Section 2: Tantrism and Yoga: A Textual Perspective. Chair: Georgi Krastev | ||
14:00-14:30 | Marine Schoettel: “Thus Are the Words of Saṅ Hyaṅ Mataṅga”: Quotations of the Mataṅga-Pārameśvara in an Old Javanese Treatise | |
14:30-15:00 | Nicholas Lua: Dr. Tumburu, I Presume? Tantric Tumburu’s Āyurvedic Precursor | |
15:00-15:30 | Hagar Shalev: The Notion of Health in Pre-Modern Hindu Yoga Systems | |
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16:00-17:00 | Jürgen Hanneder: Keynote Lecture: “Akademischer Nachwuchs” – Reflections of a Veteran on a Strange Concept | |
Day 2: Friday, July 23rd | ||
Section 3: Jain Studies: Ethics and Narrative Perspectives. Chair: Himal Trikha | ||
9:00-9:30 | Jinesh R. Sheth: On the Importance of Anekāntavāda and Ubiquity of Ahiṃsā in Jaina Ethics: Reflections on Amṛtacandrasūri’s Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya | |
9:30-10:00 | Seema K. Chauhan: How to Read a “Jaina Retelling” of a Hindu Tale: The Tale of Kṛṣṇa’s Sister in Jinasena’s Harivaṃśapurāṇa | |
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Section 4: Buddhist Studies: Philosophy, Literature and Art History. Chair: Markus Viehbeck | ||
10:30-11:00 | Seongho Choi: Yogācāra and Madhyamaka in Pañcaskandha Texts | |
11:00-11:30 | Xiaoqiang Meng: Multifaced Nāgakumāra: Further Notes on Kṣemendra’s Sources of Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā | |
11:30-12:00 | Charlotte Gorant: Nāgas in Early Buddhism: A Heavenly Abode and an Unfortunate Birth in Art | |
— Lunch Break — | ||
Section 5: Literature, Manuscript and Arts. Chair: Daisy Sze Yui Cheung | ||
13:30-14:00 | Shihong Zhao: Notes on the Manuscripts of the Alaṃkāraratnākara | |
14:00-14:30 | Devdutta Kakati: The Harṣacarita and Two Contemporary Eulogies in Epigraphic Texts: Reflections on the Polity of Kāmarūpa during Bhāskaravarman (c. 7th century CE) | |
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15:00-15:30 | Mercy Dutta: In Pursuit of Love: Understanding the Dynamics of ‘Loving’ Relationships in Bāṇabhaṭṭa’s Kādambarῑ | |
15:30-16:00 | Hermina Cielas: One Hundred Steps to the Court: śatalekhinī s and the Art of avadhāna in the Nāyakas’ and Marāṭhās’ Tañjāvur | |
Day 3: Saturday, July 24th | ||
Section 6: Grammar Studies. Chair: Marco Ferrante | ||
9:00-9:30 | Rishi Rajpopat: The Evolution of Rule-Conflict Resolution Tools in the Pāṇinian Grammatical Tradition | |
9:30-10:00 | Sibylle Koch: The Philosophical Problem Around the Grammatical Gender of Terms such as puruṣaḥ, citiḥ and caitanyam, as well as the Gender of Terms Denoting Non-Existent Things | |
Section 7: Probing the universe of Indian Philosophy. Chair: Michael Williams | ||
10:00-10:30 | Ge Ge: maṅgala in the Eyes of Śaṅkara Miśra Based on the Opening of the Upaskāra | |
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11:00-11:30 | Rafał Kłeczek: Nyāyabhūṣaṇa on Distinctiveness of Its Own Tradition | |
11:30-12:00 | Aditya Chaturvedi: Kṛṣṇa as the Purport of the pramāṇacatuṣṭaya: Vallabhācārya on ekavākyatā and the Order of Authoritative Texts | |
12:00-12:30 | Rosina Pastore: Discussing Nyāya in Brajbhāṣā? On Six Categories of Reasoning in Brajvāsīdās’s Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka | |
— Lunch Break — | ||
Afternoon Section | ||
14:00 | Concluding Session | |