Dear colleagues,
A new initiative for students studying Sanskrit launches this February. The workshop, called ‘The Sanskrit Reading Room’, runs regularly with leading scholars from around Europe.
For further details please see sanskritreadingroom.wordpress.com, the facebook page 'Sanskrit Reading Room' or contact Avni Chag (Avni_Chag@soas.ac.uk) and Karen O'Brien Kop (Karen_O'Brien-Kop@soas.ac.uk).
The spring and summer schedule for 2017 is as follows:
Wednesday February 1, 10am-12pm
Dr Jason Birch (SOAS)
The second chapter of Amanaska - the earliest extant rāja yoga text
Room T101, 22 Russell Square, SOAS
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Wednesday February 8, 3-5pm
Dr James Mallinson (SOAS)
Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha
Room B211, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
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Wednesday February 15, 3-5pm
Dr Nina Mirnig (IKGA, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Śivadharmaśāstra
The Wharton Room, All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Wednesday 8 March, 5-7pm
Dr Lidia Wojtczak (SOAS)
Origins and Developments of Dūtakāvya:
Verses from Kālidāsa’s Meghadhūta (3-4 CE) and Vedānta Deśika’s Hamṣasandeśa (13-14 CE)
SG34 Senate House, SOAS
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Wednesday 22 March, 5-7pm
Dr Vincent Tournier (SOAS)
A 6th-century inscription from Andhra Pradesh.
Room SG32, Senate House, SOAS
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Wednesday 26 April, 3-5pm
Dr Camillo Formigatti (Clay Sanskrit Librarian, Oxford Bodleian)
Kālidāsa’s Raghuvaṃśa (with Raghuvaṃśa manuscript viewings)
The Weston Library, part of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Wednesday 10 May, 3-5pm
Dr Péter Szántó (University of Oxford)
Gurupañcāsikā
All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Wednesday 24 May, 3-5pm
Professor Diwakar Acharya (University of Oxford)
All Souls College, University of Oxford
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Wednesday 7 June, 3-5pm
Dr James Hegarty (Cardiff Unversity)
Vidura and the Mahābhārata in Full:
The ‘Dynamic Translation’ of the Critical Edition of a Sanskrit Text
@SOAS
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Wednesday 14 June, 3-5pm
Dr Theodore Proferes (SOAS)
@SOAS