[INDOLOGY] Upcoming symposium on the Greater Magadha theory

Wed Apr 28 18:29:10 UTC 2021

I apologise, by mistake I sent the letter  to Dominik to the whole list.

But maybe it was a felix culpa.

Joanna

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Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz

Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies

Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies

Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

00-927 Warszawa , Poland

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

College of Human Sciences

UNISA

Pretoria, RSA

Member of Academia Europaea

https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz

śr., 28 kwi 2021 o 20:26 Joanna Jurewicz <j.jurewicz at uw.edu.pl> napisał(a):

> Well, thank you, but  I feel horribly humiliated.
>
> If someone criticized my  work, my methodology, if someone showed that I
> am talking nonsense, I do not understand Sanskrit, whatever,  I would
> understand why I am not with you - with you, people, born beyond
> the western border of the Oder. I have written plenty of  papers, two books
> on the Veda, ,the third is about to be published (my paper on conceptual
> connections between the Veda and the Buddhism is one of the most cited,
> positively),  trying to do that in English which is not my mother tongue in
> order to submit myself to the critics, to discussions, moreover, I can see
> that it makes sense what I do... and I could not do without cognitive
> linguistics which is difficult and I devoted much time to learn it too.
>
> Sorry, Dominik, I am too old not to talk about it. In two years I will be
> sixty. Now I have nothing to lose.
>
> But as I told you, I feel horribly humiliated. Do your duty and I will do
> mine.
>
>
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz
>
> Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies
>
> Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies
>
> Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw
>
> ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
>
> 00-927 Warszawa , Poland
>
> Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
>
> College of Human Sciences
>
> UNISA
>
> Pretoria, RSA
>
> Member of Academia Europaea
>
> https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz
>
>
> śr., 28 kwi 2021 o 19:35 Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):
>
>> Yes, if the participants give their permission.  I'm still asking them.
>> I will make a statement about this on the symposium website.
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 10:41, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Dominik,
>>>
>>> This is most interesting. Will it be recorded and made available for
>>> those of us unable to participate at the time it takes place?
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> Matthew Kapstein
>>> Directeur d'études, émérite
>>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
>>>
>>> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>>> The University of Chicago
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>>> Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 28, 2021 11:34 AM
>>> *To:* Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] Upcoming symposium on the Greater Magadha theory
>>>
>>> Greater Magadha: Evaluation and Retrospective
>>> An online symposium to discuss the Greater Magadha hypothesis of
>>> Johannes Bronkhorst
>>> May 6 - 9, 2021  ·  University of Alberta (online)
>>>
>>> In his 2007 book *Greater Magadha
>>> <https://books.google.ca/books?id=4GNG5KuH73QC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false>*,
>>> Johannes Bronkhorst proposed a new theory for the historical formation of
>>> Indian culture in the mid-first millennium BCE. The theory proposed that a
>>> cultural and geographical area, Greater Magadha, was settled by an early
>>> wave of Indo-European speakers.  A second wave of Indo-European speakers,
>>> carriers of Vedic culture, subsequently encountered the Greater Magadhans
>>> to the east and the resultant cultural meeting gave rise to the main
>>> features known in later Indian history.  The Greater Magadha theory
>>> addresses many deep problems about the early formation of Indian culture
>>> that have long puzzled historians.  It has been widely accepted, but has
>>> also given rise to serious criticism.  This symposium will bring together
>>> some of the principal scholars who have engaged with the theory to discuss
>>> and retrospectively evaluate the theory just over a decade after it was
>>> proposed.
>>>
>>> This symposium is hosted by Prof. Dominik Wujastyk at the Department of
>>> History, Classics and Religion at the University of Alberta and with the
>>> financial support of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research
>>> Council.
>>>
>>> The symposium will be conducted online as a Zoom Webinar.
>>>
>>> Full details of the symposium and registration are available at this
>>> website:
>>>
>>>    - http://eventleaf.com/GreaterMagadha
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Dominik Wujastyk
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk
>>> <https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
>>> ,
>>>
>>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
>>> ,
>>>
>>> Department of History and Classics
>>> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
>>> ,
>>> University of Alberta, Canada
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>> South Asia at the U of A:
>>>
>>> sas.ualberta.ca
>>>
>>> SSHRC research: The Suśruta Project <http://sushrutaproject.org>
>>>
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