[INDOLOGY] Spalding Symposium: Final chance to attend

[Kush Depala]

Dear all (and apologies for cross posting),

I am pleased to announce that the programme for the *Spalding Symposium
2026*, to be held on *27–28 March*, held at the Faculty of Divinity,*
Cambridge University*, has now been finalised. Please find the programme
below, which includes the full list of speakers and sessions.

Tickets can be purchased via *Eventbrite* at the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/51st-annual-spalding-symposium-on-indian-religions-tickets-1982632212318

We very much look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be an
engaging and stimulating event.

Kind regards,

*The Spalding Symposium organising committee*
- Kush Depala, Hershini Soneji and Saran Suebsantiwongse

Local convenor: Ankur Barua

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*Friday 27 March*

8:30 Arrival and registration

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome & Housekeeping

*9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1*

Ankur Barua (Cambridge University)

15 min Break

*10:15 - 11:45 Panel 1*

Karen O’Brien-Kop (KCL): Using Samkhya to query ontological boundaries and
mobilise consciousness in the Anthropocene

Rosina Pastore (UGent): Brahman and Cinema: Explaining Vedānta in 20th
century North India

11:45 - 13:00 - Lunch

*13:00 - 15:15 Panel 2*

Nabanjan Maitra (Bard): How to Re(Write) the Veda

Paola M Rossi (Milan): The poet ‘who fashions the boundaries’: Vedic poetry
and mapping cosmos

Shivani Bothra (California State: Long Beach): Reimagining Dharma: Jain
Migration, Gender, and the Shifting Boundaries of Tradition

15 minute break

*15:30 - 17:45 Panel 3*

Brian Black (Lancaster): From the Margins to the Centre: Rethinking Nāgas
in the Mahābhārata

Ayelet Kotler (Leiden): Persian Ramayanas and Mughal Cosmopolitanism

Sinah Kloß (Bonn): Hair, Heat, and Boundaries: Questioning the Material and
Sensory Dimensions of the Body in Hindu Suriname

Dinner thereafter 18:45


*Saturday 28 March*

*9:00 - 11:00 Panel 4: Postgraduate Panel*

Aamir Kaderbhai (Oxford): The Infinite Mirror: Questioning the Boundary
between Reality and Imagination in the Mokṣopāya

Weibing NI (Cambridge): ‘Sita Crosses Kala Pani’: Retelling the Ramayana in
the Caribbean

Simon Winant (UGent): Where Othering ends and Smothering begins: how to
discuss the ‘Muslim’ merchant Saʽīd/Ṣadīq in Jain chronicles

Ojaswini Shekhawat (Yale): Fantasizing as the (Un)Attainable “Other”: A
17th Century Minor Sanskritist’s Take on the Mughal Harem

15 minute break

*11:15 - 12:45 Panel 5*

Neelima Shukla-Bhatt (Wellesley College): Dancing and Questioning
Boundaries: Garbo, the Goddess Worship Ritual of Gujarati Women

Madhumita Sengupta (IIT Gandhinagar): Ashaan Bibi and the Cultural
Resonances of Partition in Bengal

12:45 - 14:00 - Lunch

*14:00 - 15:30 Panel 6*

Mukesh Kumar (Zürich): Fluid Frontiers of Faith: Boundary Crossing in the
Ritual Ecology of South Canara

Maharshi Vyas (UNC Chapel Hill): What does it mean to be ‘tribal’?
Questioning Identitarian Boundaries through Historical Interactions and
Contemporary Lived Religious Realities

15 minute break

*15:45 - 16:35 Closing Keynote*

Prof. Monica Juneja (HCTS, Heidelberg University)

16:35 - 16:45 - Closing Remarks
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