[INDOLOGY] Vienna Summer School on Asian Cultural and Intellectual History | Mantras between Language, Ritual, and Materiality

[Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the *Vienna Summer School on Asian Cultural 
and Intellectual History, July **6–11**, *2026, hosted by the Institute 
for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Austrian Academy of 
Sciences) and the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist 
Studies (University of Vienna). The Summer School will be offered as a 
EurAsia Summer Academy within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence 
“Eurasian Transformations.”

This year’s theme is “*Mantras between Language, Ritual, and 
Materiality*.” Participants will engage intensively with Sanskrit texts 
from various periods and traditions, including the Vedic tradition, 
Mīmāṃsā, Āyurveda, and Tantra. To round off the seminar, participants 
will also be introduced to non-textual and modern aspects of mantras by 
staff from the ERC-Synergy Project “MANTRAMS.”

Please *circulate *this announcement to interested colleagues and 
students. The registration deadline is *May 15, 2026.* For more 
information, go to:

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/mantras-between-language-ritual-and-materiality 


Best regards,

Dominik A. Haas

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*Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA*
dominik at haas.asia | ORCID 0000-0002-8505-6112 
<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-6112>
Postdoctoral Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences / COE “Eurasian 
Transformations” (2024–)
External Collaborator on the ERC-Synergy Project MANTRAMS (2024–)
Chair of the Junior Eurasia Researchers Network (2025–)
Series Editor of Puṣpikā (2025–)
Steering Committee Member of the International Indology Graduate 
Research Symposium (2025–)
Co-organizer of the Initiative for Fair Open Access in South Asian 
Studies (2020–)
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