The Coffee Break Conference (CBC) project is the result of a larger reflection on the common sensical statement that "the most interesting parts of a conference are the coffee breaks". One yawns or falls asleep while most papers are read — apart from a couple of them and one's own one. By contrast, one often takes part of challenging and fascinating debates while sipping at a cup of tea or coffee. Often, the same papers sound thought-provoking and insightful during the breaks, and extremely boring while they are actually read. Therefore, what a "coffee break conference" aims at is to leave behind the rigidity and formality of the official academic and scholarly meetings and to favour an open-minded exchange of ideas, suggestions, discussions and criticisms, within the spirit of a friendly dialogue held in an informal atmosphere.

Provisional programme:

Friday the 21st December 2012

Introductory session (9–10)

h 9–10 A few methodological words by Elisa Freschi (IKGA, ÖAW, Vienna)
h 9.10–10 Paradigm cases of analysis of quotations: Himal Trikha (IKGA, ÖAW, Vienna)

Broadening the picture (10-12.45)

h 10–10.50 Intertextuality in Greek Historians (tbc) by Monica Berti (Tuft University, Massachusetts)
h 10.50–11.40 Re-use of formulas by the Vedic poets by Elena Mucciarelli (Tübingen)
[CB h 11.40–11.55]
h 11.55–12.45 Re-use of texts as attested in marginal annotations by Camillo Formigatti (Cambridge)

Focusing on śāstra (12.45–18.15)

h 12.45 Introduction on quotations in śāstra by Raffaele Torella (Rome)
[Lunch: 13.30–14.30]
h 14.30–15.20 Re-use of texts among the commentaries of the Sāṅkhyakārikās by Kengo Harimoto (Hamburg)
h 15.20–16.10Quotations in Bhartṛhari's commentaries (tbc) by Vincenzo Vergiani (Cambridge)
[CB h 16.10–16.25]
h 16.25–17.15 Types of quotations as connected to the types of siddhānta in the Nyāyamañjarī 6 by Alessandro Graheli (Vienna)
h 17.15–18.05 Quotations and (lost) commentaries in Advaita Vedānta by Ivan Andrijanic (Zagreb)

Saturday the 22nd December 2012

Subfocus on the Buddhist context throughout ages and milieus (9–11.30)

h 9–9.50 Text re-use in early Tibetan epistemological treatises by Pascale Hugon (Vienna)
h 9.50–10.40 Commenting by quoting. The case of Manorathanandin's Pramāṇavārttikavr̥tti by Cristina Pecchia (Leiden)
h 10.40–11.30 Re-use of previous texts among Burmese grammarians of Pāli by Aleix Ruiz-Falqués (Cambridge)

[CB 11.30-11.50]

Religious texts (11.50–13.30)

h 11.50–12.40 To borrow or not to borrow? The case of "vaibhavīyanarasiṃhakalpa" within the scope of Pāñcarātra literature by Ewa Debicka-Borek (Cracow)
h 12.40–13.30 Thinking through quotations: the case of the Medieval Dharmanibandhas by Florinda De Simini (Naples)

Final discussion (and lunch together)