The Catherine and William L. Magistretti Chair in South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, Dharma Realm Buddhist University, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Institute for South Asian Studies, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and the Consulate General of India, San Francisco invite you to:

Self, Sacrifice, and Cosmos: Late Vedic Thought, Ritual, and Philosophy

A conference in honor of Dr. Ganesh Umakant Thite’s contribution to Vedic Studies

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

8:30 am - 5 pm

8:30 introductory remarks by Robert Goldman

8:50 Lauren Bausch (Dharma Realm Buddhist University): On Being Firmly Established in the Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas

9:25 Caley Smith (Harvard University): A Vedic Mise En Abyme?

10:00 Joanna Jurewicz (University of Warsaw): The Consistency of Vedic Argument

10:35 break

10:50 Stephanie Jamison (University of California, Los Angeles): Vedic Ritual: The Sacralization of the Mundane and the Domestication of the Sacred

11:25 Jan Houben (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris): Ecology of Ritual Innovation in Ancient India: Some textual evidence

12:00 lunch

1:15 Joel Brereton (University of Texas at Austin): The Heavenly Sea in Early and Middle Vedic Literature

1:50 Jarrod Whitaker (Wake Forest University): Sexuality, Parentage, and Violence in Early Vedic Poetry

2:25 break

2:40 Steven Lindquist (Southern Methodist University): Varṇa in Late Vedic Narrative

3:15 Robert Goldman (UC Berkeley): Creating Context: Ādiśaṅkarācārya’s Explication of Some Ākhyāyikā-s of the Chāndogyopaniṣad

3:50 break

4:00 Keynote Address by G.U. Thite (University of Pune): The Role of Brāhmaṇa Texts in the Development of Vedic Ritual

The conference is free and open to the public.

All good wishes,

Lauren Bausch

Assistant Professor

Dharma Realm Buddhist University