[INDOLOGY] 12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium | Programme

Fri May 7 07:18:56 UTC 2021

Dear colleagues,

I'm pleased to announce the programme 
<https://iigrs.wordpress.com/programme/> of the

*12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium*

Vienna/online, July 22nd to 24th, 2021 (UTC+2)*
*

We are planning the symposium as a hybrid event, but expect that most 
people will only be able to participate online. Information on 
registration will follow at the end of June.

*Day 1: Thursday, July 22^nd *

9:00-9:30

Welcoming Session

*Section 1: Myths, Rituals, and Religious Ideologies. Chair: Marion 
Rastelli*

9:30-10:00

Amandine Wattelier-Bricout: /Which Soteriological Path Do the Myths Told 
in the Skandapurāṇa Suggest? A Case Study: Sukeśa and His Ancestors 
(SP35-SP51)/

10:00-10:30

Dominique Marcel Baur: /Of Toothsticks, Dreams and Lizards: Omens in 
Jyotiḥśāstra, Pāñcarātra-Saṃhitās and Purāṇas/

— Break —

11:00-11:30

Barbora Sojkova: /When Cows Sacrifice/

11:30-12:00

Anna Scarabel: /Svāmī Karapātrī and Dayānanda Sarasvatī: Two Competing 
Discourses on Icon Worship/

12:00-12:30

Chiara Policardi: /The Elephant-Faced Goddess in Mediaeval Śaiva Tantric 
Traditions: Female //Gaṇeśa//or Independent Deity?/

— Lunch Break —

*Section 2: Tantrism and Yoga: A Textual Perspective. **Chair: Georgi 
Krastev
*

14:00-14:30

Marine Schoettel: /“Thus Are the Words of Saṅ Hyaṅ Mataṅga”: Quotations 
of the Mataṅga-Pārameśvara in an Old Javanese Treatise/

14:30-15:00

Nicholas Lua: /Dr. Tumburu, I Presume? Tantric Tumburu’s Āyurvedic 
Precursor/

15:00-15:30

Hagar Shalev: /The Notion of Health in Pre-Modern Hindu Yoga Systems/

— Break —

16:00-17:00

Jürgen Hanneder: /Keynote Lecture: “Akademischer Nachwuchs” – 
Reflections of a Veteran on a Strange Concept /

*Day 2: Friday, July 23^rd *

*Section 3: Jain Studies: Ethics and Narrative Perspectives. Chair: 
Himal Trikha*

9:00-9:30

Jinesh R. Sheth: /On the Importance of Anekāntavāda and Ubiquity of 
Ahiṃsā in Jaina Ethics: Reflections on Amṛtacandrasūri’s 
Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya/

9:30-10:00

Seema K. Chauhan: /How to Read a “Jaina Retelling” of a Hindu Tale: The 
Tale of Kṛṣṇa’s Sister in Jinasena’s Harivaṃśapurāṇa/

— Break —

*Section 4: Buddhist Studies: Philosophy, Literature and Art History. 
Chair: Markus Viehbeck*

10:30-11:00

Seongho Choi: /Yogācāra and Madhyamaka in Pañcaskandha Texts/

11:00-11:30

Xiaoqiang Meng: /Multifaced Nāgakumāra: Further Notes on Kṣemendra’s 
Sources of Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā/

11:30-12:00

Charlotte Gorant: /Nāgas in Early Buddhism: A Heavenly Abode and an 
Unfortunate Birth in Art/

— Lunch Break —

*Section 5: Literature, Manuscript and Arts. Chair: Daisy Sze Yui Cheung *

13:30-14:00

Shihong Zhao: /Notes on the Manuscripts of the Alaṃkāraratnākara/

14:00-14:30

Devdutta Kakati: /The Harṣacarita and Two Contemporary Eulogies in 
Epigraphic Texts: Reflections on the Polity of Kāmarūpa during 
Bhāskaravarman (c. 7/^th /century CE)/

— Break —

15:00-15:30

Mercy Dutta: /In Pursuit of Love: Understanding the Dynamics of ‘Loving’ 
Relationships in Bāṇabhaṭṭa’s Kādambarῑ/

15:30-16:00

Hermina Cielas: /One Hundred Steps to the Court: śatalekhinī s and the 
Art of avadhāna in the Nāyakas’ and Marāṭhās’ Tañjāvur/

*Day 3: Saturday, July 24^th *

*Section 6: Grammar Studies. Chair: Marco Ferrante*

9:00-9:30

Rishi Rajpopat: /The Evolution of Rule-Conflict Resolution Tools in the 
Pāṇinian Grammatical Tradition/

9:30-10:00

Sibylle Koch: /The Philosophical Problem Around the Grammatical Gender 
of Terms such as puruṣaḥ, citiḥ and caitanyam, as well as the Gender of 
Terms Denoting Non-Existent Things/

*Section 7: Probing the universe of Indian Philosophy. Chair: Michael 
Williams*

10:00-10:30

Ge Ge: /maṅgala in the Eyes of Śaṅkara Miśra Based on the Opening of the 
Upaskāra/

— Break —

11:00-11:30

Rafał Kłeczek: /Nyāyabhūṣaṇa on Distinctiveness of Its Own Tradition/

11:30-12:00

Aditya Chaturvedi: /Kṛṣṇa as the Purport of the 
pra//māṇacatuṣṭaya: Vallabhācārya on //e//kavākyatā and the 
Order of Authoritative Texts/

12:00-12:30

Rosina Pastore: /Discussing Nyāya in Brajbhāṣā? On Six Categories of 
Reasoning in Brajvāsīdās’s Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka/

— Lunch Break —

*Afternoon Section*

14:00

Concluding Session

Kind regards,
Vitus Angermeier
on behalf of the IIGRS12 Team
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Dr. Vitus Angermeier
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies 
<https://stb.univie.ac.at/en/>
University of Vienna
Spitalgasse 2, Courtyard 2.1
1090 Vienna, Austria

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