A Coffee Break Conference on the re-use of texts (Rome, 21-22 December 2012)

Tue Dec 4 09:20:10 UTC 2012

Dear colleagues,

in case you are considering to visit Rome for Christmas, here is an additional reason for doing it:

A Coffee Break Conference on the quotations and re-use of texts in Sanskrit śāstra.
Rome, Institute of Oriental Studies 21-22 December 2012

The Coffee Break Conference (CBC) project is the result of a larger reflection on the common sensical statement that "the most interesting parts of a conference are the coffee breaks". One yawns or falls asleep while most papers are read — apart from a couple of them and one's own one. By contrast, one often takes part of challenging and fascinating debates while sipping at a cup of tea or coffee. Often, the same papers sound thought-provoking and insightful during the breaks, and extremely boring while they are actually read. Therefore, what a "coffee break conference" aims at is to leave behind the rigidity and formality of the official academic and scholarly meetings and to favour an open-minded exchange of ideas, suggestions, discussions and criticisms, within the spirit of a friendly dialogue held in an informal atmosphere.

Provisional programme:

Friday the 21st December 2012

Introductory session (9–10)
h 9–10 A few methodological words by Elisa Freschi (IKGA, ÖAW, Vienna)
h 9.10–10 Paradigm cases of analysis of quotations: Himal Trikha (IKGA, ÖAW, Vienna)

Broadening the picture (10-12.45)
h 10–10.50 Intertextuality in Greek Historians (tbc) by Monica Berti (Tuft University, Massachusetts)
h 10.50–11.40 Re-use of formulas by the Vedic poets by Elena Mucciarelli (Tübingen)
[CB h 11.40–11.55]
h 11.55–12.45 Re-use of texts as attested in marginal annotations by Camillo Formigatti (Cambridge)

Focusing on śāstra (12.45–18.15)
h 12.45 Introduction on quotations in śāstra by Raffaele Torella (Rome)
[Lunch: 13.30–14.30]
h 14.30–15.20 Re-use of texts among the commentaries of the Sāṅkhyakārikās by Kengo Harimoto (Hamburg)
h 15.20–16.10Quotations in Bhartṛhari's commentaries (tbc) by Vincenzo Vergiani (Cambridge)
[CB h 16.10–16.25]
h 16.25–17.15 Types of quotations as connected to the types of siddhānta in the Nyāyamañjarī 6 by Alessandro Graheli (Vienna)
h 17.15–18.05 Quotations and (lost) commentaries in Advaita Vedānta by Ivan Andrijanic (Zagreb)

Saturday the 22nd December 2012

Subfocus on the Buddhist context throughout ages and milieus (9–11.30)
h 9–9.50 Text re-use in early Tibetan epistemological treatises by Pascale Hugon (Vienna)
h 9.50–10.40 Commenting by quoting. The case of Manorathanandin's Pramāṇavārttikavr̥tti by Cristina Pecchia (Leiden)
h 10.40–11.30 Re-use of previous texts among Burmese grammarians of Pāli by Aleix Ruiz-Falqués (Cambridge)

[CB 11.30-11.50]

Religious texts (11.50–13.30)
h 11.50–12.40 To borrow or not to borrow? The case of "vaibhavīyanarasiṃhakalpa" within the scope of Pāñcarātra literature by Ewa Debicka-Borek (Cracow)
h 12.40–13.30 Thinking through quotations: the case of the Medieval Dharmanibandhas by Florinda De Simini (Naples)

Final discussion (and lunch together)

For further info: http://asiatica.wikispaces.com/quotations+and+re-use+of+texts+in+Sanskrit+texts

The program is also attached as a pdf to this message.

Looking forward to future chances to interact, discuss (and disagree),

elisa freschi

Dr. Elisa Freschi
Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social Anthropology
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Apostelgasse 23
1030 Vienna
Austria
Phone +43 1 51581 6433
Fax +43 1 51581 6410
http://elisafreschi.blogspot.com
http://oeaw.academia.edu/elisafreschi

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