[INDOLOGY] Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Ramayana and Mahabharata: Seminar Programme and Registration

[Simon Brodbeck]

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the programme and registration link for the six-week seminar series on "Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Ramayana and Mahabharata", to be held online this June and July.

In case of difficulties with the attachment, the programme and the registration link are pasted in at the bottom of this email.

Yours faithfully,
Simon Brodbeck, Laxshmi Greaves, and James Hegarty
Cardiff University

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Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata
International Online Seminar Series

CONFIRMED PROGRAMME

Thurs 3 June 2021, 1400--1630 BST
Gayathri Iyer (JNU): “Ravana Anugraḥamūrti as Seen through the Eyes of Śiva’s Gaṇás: Commentary or Humour?”
John Brockington (Edinburgh): “Some Illustrated Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Manuscripts”
Giulia Buriola (La Sapienza): “Shaping Identities through the Rāmāyaṇa: Interpreting Prapannāmṛta 123–126”

Thurs 10 June, 1400--1630 BST
Panel: Polish Mahābhārata Translation Project
Joanna Jurewicz (Warsaw): “Vyāsa as a Film-Maker. Creating of Battle-Scenes in Selected Examples of MBh 6”
Andrzej Babkiewicz (Warsaw): “Weapons in the Mahābhārata – an Attempt of Reconstruction”
Sven Sellmer (AMU Poznań): “Computer-Based Analysis of the Usage of Expressions Denoting Weapons in the Mahābhārata”

Thurs 17 June, 1400--1630 BST
Shubha Pathak (American): “Demonic and Demidivine Beauty in the Eyes of Demidivine and Demonic Beholders: Making Hanumat Disbelieve and Duryodhana Misbelieve through (A-)Puruṣārthic Assembly-Hall Aesthetics in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata”
Saran Suebsantiwongse (Cambridge): “When Thai Kings Became ‘Rāma’: Origin, Function and Interpretation of the Rāmakien as Seen through the History, Politics and Material Culture of Thailand”
Emily Hudson: “Hiding in Plain Sight: the Surprise Twist in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa”

Thurs 24 June, 1400--1630 BST
Roberto Morales-Harley (Málaga): “Lifting Brides / Lifting Enemies: Male Embraces in the Mahābhārata’s Virāṭaparvan and Bhāsa’s Pañcarātram”
Harold Wiese (Leipzig): “Decisions in the Mahābhārata”
Christopher Austin (Dalhousie): “Subrahmaṇya Kṛṣṇa: Stolen and Unstolen Cows in the Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa”

Thurs 1 July, 1400--1630 BST
Panel: Resonances of Separation: Pathos, Compassion, and Divinity in Rāmāyaṇa Narratives
Mercy Dutta (JNU): “Loving like a Spouse, Ruling like a King: Historicizing Emotional Conflict through Bhavabhūti’s Uttararāmacaritam”
Tarinee Awasthi (Cornell): “Pathos and Compassion in the Rāmacaritamānasa and Beyond”
Aditya Chaturvedi (Emory): “Revealing the Goddess: Sītā’s Response to Separation from Rāma in Rameśvaracarita Mithilā Rāmāyaṇa”

Thurs 8 July, 1400--1630 BST
Max Deeg (Cardiff): “The Buddha in the ‘Wild West’: Jātakas and Other Stories in Gandhāra and their Religio-Political Context”
Suganya Anandakichenin (Hamburg): “Nindāstuti or stutinindā? Śiśupāla’s words on Kṛṣṇa in Villipputtūrar’s Tamil Pāratam”
Simon Brodbeck (Cardiff): “Holst’s Sāvitri Libretto”

To register:
https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdOuppjMjGNc8Jutfg_p8OehzkShiutbv


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