Dear All , 

One of several indology-related ICAS-events features young scholars not theorizing or preaching but exploring through their own effort new ways of practicing Indology. I have accepted a request by my old friend Dr. Paul van der Velde, ICAS-organizer since the first ICAS in Leiden-Noordwijkerhout in 1998, to chair their panel "Oriental Studies & New Ways of Practicing Indology" (18 July, morning) as I believe the initiative is admirable and deserves a fair chance (see below).
The panel Visual Asian Studies: Vedic Ritual in India & Nepal is on 19 July afternoon (see below).
For more information and several other indology-related events see the online program (136 pages):
https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/ICAS11/agenda.asp?pfp=FullSchedule 

 
Oriental Studies & New Ways of practicing Indology

Panel Chair(s)

• Jan Houben

  École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres, France

Author(s)

• Hao Fu

  Institute of Foreign Literature at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

• Olga Nowicka

  Jagiellonian University, Poland

• Soumyajit Sen

  Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, India

• Ramil Valeev

  Kazan Federal University, Russia

• Lidia Wojtczak

  SOAS University of London, United Kingdom

Co-Author(s)

• Svetlana Kirillina

  Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

• Roza Valeeva

  Kazan Innovative University, Russia

Presentations:

• 11:15 - 13:00

  'Church Sanskrit' Literature and John Muir (1810-1882)'
  Soumyajit Sen – Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University
• 11:15 - 13:00

  Local Advaita Vedānta Monastic Tradition in the Topographies of Keralan Hagiographies
  Olga Nowicka – Jagiellonian University
• 11:15 - 13:00

  Sanskrit at CASS
  Hao Fu – Institute of Foreign Literature at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• 11:15 - 13:00

  “Desire Does Not Become His Noble Head” – The Indian Trope of Switching Heads in the Works of Thomas Mann and Marguerite Yourcenar
  Lidia Wojtczak – SOAS University of London
• 11:15 - 13:00

  The University Oriental Studies in Russia: Its Centers, Development and Legacy (mid-18th century – the 1930s)
  Ramil Mirgasimovich Valeev – Kazan Federal University; Svetlana Kirillina – Lomonosov Moscow State University; Roza Valeeva – Kazan Innovative University

Visual Asian Studies: Vedic Ritual in India & Nepal

Panel Convenor(s)

• Jan Houben

  École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres, France

• Bal Gopal Shrestha

  International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands

Panel Chair(s)

• Dirk Nijland

  Leiden University, Netherlands

Panel Discussant(s)

• Han Vermeulen

  Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

• Alex McKay

  Namgyal Institute of Tibetology/IIAS, Australia

Presenter(s)

• Jan Houben

  École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres, France

• Bal Gopal Shrestha

  International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands

• Natalia Korneeva

  Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia

In this panel in honour of two pioneers in filming Vedic ritual, J.A.B. van Buitenen (1928-1979) and Frits Staal (1930-2012), Vedic ritual is studied, not, as usual, primarily and almost exclusively on the basis of texts, but primarily on the basis of video-recordings of performances, which reveal the structure of Vedic performances in a more easily accessible way. 
As for publication, some of our clips will appear on the "Vedic Ritual" channel set up at VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/channels/vedicritual

Presentations:

• 14:45 - 16:30

  The Nihnava meaningless? a new perspective and analysis through videoregistration
  Jan Houben – École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres
• 14:45 - 16:30

  Filming in order to understand : the Vedic Fire Rituals Performed at Agnimaṭha, Patan, Nepal
  Bal Gopal Shrestha – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
• 14:45 - 16:30

  Clarifying confusing details of the Atirātra Agnicayana animal sacrifice through video-registration
  Natalia Korneeva – Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities
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