Dear Colleagues

Some members of this list may be interested in the latest schedule of the Sanskrit Reading Room at SOAS:


Sanskrit Reading Room

Spring Term 2018

 

Wednesday January 17, 3-5 pm

Dr Simon Brodbeck (Cardiff University)

Harivaṃśa

Room Meet 116, Main College Buildings, Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Wednesday January 31, 5-7 pm

Dr Vincenzo Vergiani (University of Cambridge)

Excerpts from Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya

Room T101, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Wednesday February 14, 3-5 pm

Dr Rembert Lutjeharms (OCHS)

Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka of Kavikarṇapūra

Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford

 

Wednesday February 21, 3-5 pm

Prof. Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta)

Carakasaṃhitā, Vimānasthāna 1

Room Meet 116, Main College Buildings, Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Wednesday February 28, 3-5 pm

Dr Jonathan Duquette (University of Oxford)

The Vedānta of Vīraśaivas

Room T102, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Summer Term 2018

 

Wednesday May 2, 3-5pm

Prof. Alex Watson (Ashoka University)

7th Ãhnika of Nyāyamañjarī: Can we perceive the self (ātman)?

Room T102, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Wednesday May 9, 3-5 pm

Dr Shalini Sinha (University of Reading)

Praśastapādabhāṣya

Room T102, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Wednesday May 23, 3-5 pm

Dr Marco Ferrante (IKGA/University of Oxford)

Knowledge, consciousness and language: a dialogue between Bhartṛhari and the Pratyabhijñā

Room T102, 22 Russell Sq, SOAS

 

Wednesday May 30, 3-5 pm

Prof. Madhav Deshpande (University of Michigan)

Prof. Deshpande’s Sītā-Rāvaṇa-Samvāda-Pañcāśikā

B211, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

 

For more details, subscribe to sanskritreadingroom.wordpress.com or our Facebook group: Sanskrit Reading Room.

Contact: Karen_O'Brien-Kop@soas.ac.uk, Avni_Chag@soas.ac.uk, or Ruth_Westoby@soas.ac.uk


With best wishes

Karen O'Brien-Kop

Doctoral Researcher and Senior Teaching Fellow
Religions and Philosophies, SOAS