Dear Colleagues

Here is the programme for the annual Seminar on ‘Sanskrit Traditions in the Modern World’. 

If you are interested, please contact Dr Suthren Hirst <jacqueline.hirst@manchester.ac.uk>, not myself.

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

31st Annual STIMW Seminar

Fri 23 May 2014    10.45 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Martin Harris Centre, G16, University of Manchester

Programme  

10.45-11.10 Coffee and registration

11.15-12.00 Simon Brodbeck, Cardiff University
‘ “Stemmata Quid Faciunt?” What’s the use of pedigrees?
On Choosing to Translate Vaidya’s Critically Reconstituted Harivaṃśa’

Discussant: 

 

12.00-12.45 Chakravarti Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University
  'Phenomenology from the outside: bodily being in the Caraka Samhita’

Discussant:  

  1. Lunch

2.00-2.45 Kiyokazu Okita, Kyoto University, Japan
‘Hindu theology and the question of qualification: a reflection based on a study of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism’

Discussant:  

2.45-3.30 Mikel Burley, Leeds
‘Conundrums of Buddhist Cosmology and Psychology’

Discussant:  


3.30-4.00 Tea

4.00-4.45 Rosie Edgley, University of Manchester:  Research report – ‘Why study Madhusūdana?’

James Bradbury, University of Manchester:  Research report -
‘Texts and Transmission in a British Bengali Hindu Mission’

Chair:  Atreyee Sen

4.45-5.00 STIMW 2015