[David Magier <magier at columbia.edu>: 5/95 Workshop on the Tamil Epic Manimekalai]

[David Magier]

Below are two event announcements for your information, forwarded from
the CONFERENCES listing in The South Asia Gopher. Please contact event
organizers (not me) for more information on these events. 

David Magier
(magier at columbia.edu)

The South Asia Gopher
URL: gopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu:71/11/clioplus/scholarly/SouthAsia


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   1)  5-Oct David Magier 5/95   Workshop on the Tamil Epi (1546 chars)
   2)  5-Oct David Magier 5/95   Rural and Urban Environme (2193 chars)

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From: David Magier <magier at columbia.edu>
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Subject: 5/95   Workshop on the Tamil Epic Manimekalai
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Workshop on the Tamil Epic Manimekalai
18-22 May, 1995
Sunnersta Manor, Uppsala, Sweden

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scholars are invited to present a paper on the Tamil epic Manimekalai by 
Cattanar. The purpose of this workshop is to solve some fundamental 
problems regarding the authorship of the epic, the dating of the epic, 
the type of Buddhism and the genre of literature it represents, its 
geography, its translations from Sanskrit and Prakrit into Tamil, its 
prosody, its historical background, its religious concepts, its language 
from different aspects, etc. Among the scholars invited can be mentioned: 
R. Nagaswamy, R. E. Asher, Paula Richman, A. Veluppillai and David 
Shulman. The organiser is the Department for the History of Religions, 
Uppsala University.

For more information about the workshop kindly write to Professor Peter 
Schalk: fax +46 18 241786, email Tamil.Studies at relhist.uu.se

Mail address:
Professor Peter Schalk
Department for the History of Religions
Box 1604
S-751 46 Uppsala, Sweden.

 

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Subject: 5/95   Rural and Urban Environments in South Asia
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RURAL AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN SOUTH ASIA
Conference in Oslo, Norway
18-22 May 1995

(NASA: Nordic Association for South Asian Studies)

The conference will provide a forum for discussion of social, cultural 
and material dimensions of "the environment". It will have themes 
contemplating natural and the human-made environments, the sustainable 
and unsustainable practices of villagers, industries, and government 
departments, as well as local, trans-local and international patterns of 
co-operation and conflict characterizing environmental issues in South Asia.

MAJOR THEMES:

1. Too little: Farming and Pastoralism in Arid Zones
2. Too much: Farming, Fishing and Flooding in Wet Areas
3. Urban Fields: Industry, Pollution, and Slum
4. Political Ecology.

The conference organizers have decided to combine Nordic and North 
American models in organizing this conference. This means that we plan 
participation through panels. Conference organizers and participants will 
cooperate to inject sub-themes relating to specific interests into the 
main themes. Any group of two or more paper-presenting participants may 
define a sub-theme by contacting the organizers in advance of the conference.

For more information, please contact:

Chair, Pamela Price
Department of History
University of Oslo
Blindern Pb. 1008
N-0315 Oslo, NORWAY
tel: 47 22 85 68 77 (office)
     47 22 69 23 68 (res)
fax: 47 22 85 48 28
email: pamela.price at iks.uio.no

OR

Secretary, Lars Martin Fosse
Center for Eastern European and Oriental Studies
University of Oslo
Blindern Pb. 1030
0315 Oslo, NORWAY
tel: 47 22 85 68 48 (office)
fax: 47 22 85 41 40
email: fosse at hedda.uio.no