Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the 8th International Indological Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS 8) will be held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich on October 29-30 (Sat-Sun), 2016. 

We would like to invite all M.A. and PhD students as well as early career scholars (who have completed their PhDs within the past five years) to send their abstracts to iigrsuk@googlemail.com by July 20th. We will inform you about the outcome of your application no later than August 1st. If you would like to apply for separate funding and need the acceptance before this time, please send us your abstract with a separate notification as soon as possible. 

As Munich is a center for research on Buddhist Studies, scholars with papers dealing with issues involving Buddhism and Indology are especially encouraged to attend. Naturally, however, we wish to have papers not only on Buddhism but the entire gamut of Indology and all papers dealing with any indological research centered around the study of texts in their original language will be considered by the selection committee. For further information please have a look at our website at https://iigrs.wordpress.com or contact us directly at iigrsuk@googlemail.com.

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and should include:

1) Your name and institution, together with your status as a postgraduate student. If you have recently completed your post-graduate studies you should indicate this and provide details of your previous institution.
2) The title of your paper.
3) A broad indication of its subject area.
4) An outline of its contents.

Please send your abstract in both Word and PDF format.

Details concerning registration will be announced on our website soon. It is possible that some travel funding may become available and we will inform participants of this at a later date. In the meantime, we encourage those interested in attending to secure funding from their home institution.

If you are teaching at an institution, we would be very grateful if you could circulate this information among your students.

Yours faithfully,
Charles DiSimone, Andrea Schlosser, and Jinkyoung Choi
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München