Workshop mit Vorträgen von:

Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna: Welcome

Martin Gaenszle, University of Vienna, Workshop Convener: Introduction

David Gellner, University of Oxford, Key note: Generating Activists Life Stories through Interviews, Followed by discussion

Alaka Chudal, University of Vienna (Austria):An Alternative Approach to Narrating the Past and Studying the Society: Hemraj Sharma and Ram Mani Acharya Dixit’s Diary

Melanie Vandenhelsken, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria): Yangang Basnet Bāje’s life story: Reconsidering the Past, Reconstructing Sikkimese-ness

Michael Hutt, University of London (UK): Political and Gendered Identity in Parijat's Autobiographical Writings

Heinz Werner Wessler, Uppsala University(Sweden): Is Autobiography Really the Model? Some Considerations on Hindi Dalit Writing

Alessandra Consolaro, University of Turin (Italy): For Her Eyes Only: Embodiment in Prabha Khetan’s Autobiography

Monika Browarczky, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland): The Others and the Only Ones or Hindi Autobiographies by Women

Sanjeev Uprety, Tribhuvan University (Nepal): Norms, Anxieties and Structural Dividend: Personal Stories of Nepali Men

Lisa-Marie Reuter, University of Würzburg (Germany): Pre-Independence Life Writings by Women – Female Perspectives on Social Transformations in North India in the Early Twentieth Century

Archana Thapa, Akshar Creations (Nepal): Locating Gendered Identities in the Contemporary Nepali Life Stories

Rama Yadav, University of Delhi (ICCR Chair, ELTE University, Hungary): Meerabai: Life Story through the Poetry