Dear Colleagues,

I would like to alert you to the workshop "Speaking Across Borders", which our department is organizing in January (program below) - please feel welcome to attend.

With best wishes

Ute Hüsken

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speaking across borders: A WORKSHOP ON

DEBATES AROUND 1600 C.E. IN NORTH INDIA

Mon. 22nd Jan. 2018 (Heinrich Zimmer Saal, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg)

09.30 - 10.00 • Ute Hüsken, William Sax (Heidelberg University)

Welcome and Introduction

Chair • Hans Harder (Heidelberg University)

10.00 - 10.45 • Peter Flügel (SOAS South Asia Institute)

Early Literary Heritage of the Amūrtipūjaka Jaina-Traditions: An Overview of the Known Literature of the Loṅka-Tradition and its Early Opponents


10.45 - 11.30 • Jérôme Petit (Bibliotèque nationale de France, Paris)

Rājamalla (Jaipur, 16th c.) and his influence on the Jaina reformist movements


• Coffee break •

Chair • Jörg Gengnagel (Würzburg University)

 

12.00 - 12.45 • Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (Heidelberg University)

Nāth Siddhas Negotiating the Tantric Tradition and Bhakti

 

• Lunch break •

 

14.00 - 14.45 • Heidi Pauwels (University of Washington)

Reviewing the idea of  “debate” within the intellectual history of South Asia

 

 

Chair • Ute Hüsken (Heidelberg University)

 

14.45 - 15.30 • Michael Bergunder (Heidelberg University)

Advaita Vedanta and Sufism at Banaras in the 16th and 17th centuries

 

• Coffee break •

 

16.00 - 16.45 • Stefano Pello’ (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

The Parrots of India and the Persian Mirror: Hindu writers of Persian in the long 18th century

 

16.45 - 17.30 • General discussion

 

 

 

Tues. 23rd Jan. 2018 (Room 209, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg)

09.30 - 12.30 • Reading session: Excerpts from the Muhammad Bodh and Kafir Bodh

-- 
Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken
Head of the Department
Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology)
South Asia Institute
Heidelberg University
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
69120 Heidelberg
http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/mitarbeiter/huesken/huesken.php

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