Dear Colleagues

Some list-members may be interested in the current schedule for the Sanskrit Reading Room (included below), a graduate initiative at SOAS University of London.

Selected sessions will be available as recordings or streamed live via Facebook.

Best wishes

Karen O'Brien-Kop and Avni Chag

SOAS University of London

The Sanskrit Reading Room

Sanskrit Reading Room

Winter Term 2017

Wednesday October 11, 3-5 pm

Dr James Mallinson (SOAS)

Amṛtasiddhi

Room T102, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

(With a tea reception to follow, 5-6 pm)

Wednesday October 25, 3-5 pm

Dr Péter Szántó (University of Oxford)

Padminī of Mahāsukhavajra and commentary to Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra

Room T101, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

Wednesday November 8, 3-5 pm

Dr Camillo Formigatti (John Clay Sanskrit Lib)

Deconstructing a critical edition: The Anāthapiṇḍadāvadāna from the Avadānaśataka

The Weston Library, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

Wednesday November 15, 3-5 pm

Dr Måns Broo (Abo Akademie University)

Hari Bhaktivilāsa

Room 404, 30 Russell Sq, SOAS

Wednesday November 29, 3-5 pm

Graduate Sanskrit Reading Room

Maddalena Italia (SOAS)

Translation immoral? Contamination, hybridity, and vociferous silences in

early twentieth-century translations of Sanskrit erotic poetry

Rohini Bakshi (Independent Scholar)

Vedic chanting: method and demonstration

Graham Burns (SOAS)

Formulation, substitution and veneration: three controversial Upanisadic terms.

Room T102, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

Wednesday December 6, 3-5 pm

Dr Lidia Wojtczak (SOAS)

Pimps and beggars. Poets through the lens of Sanskrit satirical verse.

Room 404, 30 Russell Sq, SOAS

Wednesday December 13, 3-5pm

Dr Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Ghent University)

Ratnakīrti’s Īśvarasādhanadūṣaṇa

Room T101, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS