Dear colleagues and friends,
We are delighted to announce that this year meeting of Belgian Indologists will take place at Ghent University on Friday December 21st and will honor the work of Prof. Adriaan Scharpé.
Please find below and attached the programme of the day.
This day will also be the occasion of the opening of an exhibition in honor of professor Scharpé. This summer, the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy library of Ghent University received the donation of the most valuable private book collection of Adriaan Scharpé, professor of Indology at Ghent University from 1944 to 1980. In addition, in the coming academic year, we celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the “Hoger Instituut voor Oosterse, Oosteuropese en Afrikaanse Taalkunde en Geschiedenis”, out of which our department and course program developed, under the presidency of Adriaan Scharpé.
We look forward to welcoming you back in Ghent!
Eva De Clercq
Friday, December 21st
Rozier 44, Magnel Wing, Library Lab II
9.00 – Eva De Clercq & Marie-Hélène Gorisse Opening words on Adriaan Scharpé’s work
9.30 – Christophe Vielle On the history of Indology in Belgium
10.00 – Sander Hens Connecting (hi)stories: North-Indian historical literature (ca. 1200–1500) from a global perspective10.30 – Coffee break
11.00 – Ann Heirman How to deal with dangerous and annoying animals: a vinaya perspective11.30 – Simon Winant Echoes of Vyāsa in the Pāṇḍavacarita of Devaprabhasūri
12.00 – Saartje Verbeke Some Linguistic Features of the Old Kashmiri Language of the Bāṇasūrakathā12.30 – Lunch
13.30 – Leonid Kulikov The Indo-Iranian myth of the primordial incest of Yamī and Yama and its (non-)Indo-European origins: >From demonic to human sexuality?15.30 – Eve Tignol Muslim mobilisation and the construction of New Delhi
16.00 – OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION (2nd Floor, Magnel-Rozier Corner of the Library)
16.30 – RECEPTION (Library Main Hall)
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Ghent University
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