Registration: dagmar.wujastyk[at]univie.ac.at
Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania:
"Immortal matters: the material culture of longevity practices, 16th – 18th CE"
Fabrizio Speziale (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3):
"Rasaśāstra, rasāyana and Persian Medical Culture in South Asia"
Herbert Schwabl (PADMA AG, Switzerland):
"Asian medicines in Europe – perspectives for the future"
Katharina Sabernig (Medical University of Vienna):
"Topography and proportions of the body in Asian medical traditions"
Dagmar Wujastyk (University of Vienna):
"Rasāyana in Sanskrit alchemical literature"
Christèle Barois (University of Vienna):
"Longevity practices from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad onwards"
Tenzin Lhundup (Men-Tsee-Khang, Dharamsala, India):
"Approach of Tibetan medicine towards healthy longevity"
Philipp Maas (University of Leipzig):
"On Caraka’s account of the origin of rasāyana"
Stephan Kloos & Harilal Madhavan (Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna):
"The Emergence of a Traditional Mongolian Medicine Industry"
Damdinsuren Natsagdorj (Manba Datsan Mongolian Traditional Medicine and Training Centre, Ulaanbaatar):
"Current status and future trends of development of Mongolian traditional medicine"
Gudrun Bühnemann (The University of Wisconsin-Madison):
"Śiva as the conqueror of death and lord of the nectar of immortality"
Petra Maurer (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften):
"The various names and forms of “Tibetan Yoga”"
Barbara Gerke (University of Vienna):
"Entangled Efficacies in the Biographies of Tibetan Precious Pills"
Suzanne Newcombe (Inform, LSE):
"Longevity practices in India during the modern period: public health imperatives and individual aspirations"
Karl Baier (University of Vienna):
"Yoga and alchemy within fin de siècle occultism"
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London):
"Exploring the Asian roots of Roger Bacon’s medical alchemy"
Jason Birch (Haṭha Yoga Project, SOAS, London):
"Liberation and immortality in early haṭha and rājayoga traditions"
Sienna Craig & Calum Blaikie:
"From Homemade to Readymade: Tibetan Medicine Production in Nepal"
Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University):
"Tantric immortality: the factors of long life and the transcendence of time."
Jan van der Valk (University of Kent, Canterbury):
"The pharmaceutical becomings of Tibetan medicines in Switzerland: making things with humans along PADMA’s assembly line"
Ilona Kędzia (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
"Medicine, alchemy and yoga in the esoteric language of the Vaittiya Kallāṭam"
Ilona Kędzia (Jagiellonian University, Kraków):
"Medicine, alchemy and yoga in the esoteric language of the Vaittiya Kallāṭam"
Anna Sehnalova (Oxford University):
"Tibetan Bonpo Mendrub: the Bonpo precious formula's transmission and practice"
Florian Ploberger (independent scholar, Vienna):
"A comparative study between Chinese formulas and Tibetan formulas: differences and opportunities"
Isabella Würthner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich):
"Curing menstrual disorders in Tibetan medical literature"
Ian Baker (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow):
"Intoxicating solutions: therapeutic and medicinal use of psychoactive substances in tantric Buddhism"
