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