Dear colleagues,
I'm pleased to announce the programme of
the
12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium
Vienna/online, July 22nd to 24th, 2021 (UTC+2)
We are planning the symposium as a hybrid event, but expect that
most people will only be able to participate online. Information
on registration will follow at the end of June.
Day 1: Thursday, July 22nd |
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9:00-9:30 |
Welcoming Session |
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Section 1: Myths, Rituals, and Religious Ideologies. Chair: Marion Rastelli |
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9:30-10:00 |
Amandine Wattelier-Bricout: Which Soteriological Path Do the Myths Told in the Skandapurāṇa Suggest? A Case Study: Sukeśa and His Ancestors (SP35-SP51) |
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10:00-10:30 |
Dominique Marcel Baur: Of Toothsticks, Dreams and Lizards: Omens in Jyotiḥśāstra, Pāñcarātra-Saṃhitās and Purāṇas |
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11:00-11:30 |
Barbora Sojkova: When Cows Sacrifice |
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11:30-12:00 |
Anna Scarabel: Svāmī Karapātrī and Dayānanda Sarasvatī: Two Competing Discourses on Icon Worship |
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12:00-12:30 |
Chiara Policardi: The Elephant-Faced Goddess in Mediaeval Śaiva Tantric Traditions: Female Gaṇeśa or Independent Deity? |
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— Lunch Break — |
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Section 2: Tantrism and
Yoga: A Textual Perspective. Chair: Georgi
Krastev |
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14:00-14:30 |
Marine Schoettel: “Thus Are the Words of Saṅ Hyaṅ Mataṅga”: Quotations of the Mataṅga-Pārameśvara in an Old Javanese Treatise |
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14:30-15:00 |
Nicholas Lua: Dr. Tumburu, I Presume? Tantric Tumburu’s Āyurvedic Precursor |
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15:00-15:30 |
Hagar Shalev: The Notion of Health in Pre-Modern Hindu Yoga Systems |
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16:00-17:00 |
Jürgen Hanneder: Keynote Lecture: “Akademischer Nachwuchs” – Reflections of a Veteran on a Strange Concept |
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Day 2: Friday, July 23rd |
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Section 3: Jain Studies: Ethics and Narrative Perspectives. Chair: Himal Trikha |
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9:00-9:30 |
Jinesh R. Sheth: On the Importance of Anekāntavāda and Ubiquity of Ahiṃsā in Jaina Ethics: Reflections on Amṛtacandrasūri’s Puruṣārthasiddhyupāya |
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9:30-10:00 |
Seema K. Chauhan: How to Read a “Jaina Retelling” of a Hindu Tale: The Tale of Kṛṣṇa’s Sister in Jinasena’s Harivaṃśapurāṇa |
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Section 4: Buddhist Studies: Philosophy, Literature and Art History. Chair: Markus Viehbeck |
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10:30-11:00 |
Seongho Choi: Yogācāra and Madhyamaka in Pañcaskandha Texts |
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11:00-11:30 |
Xiaoqiang Meng: Multifaced Nāgakumāra: Further Notes on Kṣemendra’s Sources of Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā |
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11:30-12:00 |
Charlotte Gorant: Nāgas in Early Buddhism: A Heavenly Abode and an Unfortunate Birth in Art |
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— Lunch Break — |
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Section 5: Literature, Manuscript and Arts. Chair: Daisy Sze Yui Cheung |
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13:30-14:00 |
Shihong Zhao: Notes on the Manuscripts of the Alaṃkāraratnākara |
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14:00-14:30 |
Devdutta Kakati: The Harṣacarita and Two Contemporary Eulogies in Epigraphic Texts: Reflections on the Polity of Kāmarūpa during Bhāskaravarman (c. 7th century CE) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Mercy Dutta: In Pursuit of Love: Understanding the Dynamics of ‘Loving’ Relationships in Bāṇabhaṭṭa’s Kādambarῑ |
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15:30-16:00 |
Hermina Cielas: One Hundred Steps to the Court: śatalekhinī s and the Art of avadhāna in the Nāyakas’ and Marāṭhās’ Tañjāvur |
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Day 3: Saturday, July 24th |
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Section 6: Grammar Studies. Chair: Marco Ferrante |
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9:00-9:30 |
Rishi Rajpopat: The Evolution of Rule-Conflict Resolution Tools in the Pāṇinian Grammatical Tradition |
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9:30-10:00 |
Sibylle Koch: The Philosophical Problem Around the Grammatical Gender of Terms such as puruṣaḥ, citiḥ and caitanyam, as well as the Gender of Terms Denoting Non-Existent Things |
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Section 7: Probing the universe of Indian Philosophy. Chair: Michael Williams |
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10:00-10:30 |
Ge Ge: maṅgala in the Eyes of Śaṅkara Miśra Based on the Opening of the Upaskāra |
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11:00-11:30 |
Rafał Kłeczek: Nyāyabhūṣaṇa on Distinctiveness of Its Own Tradition |
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11:30-12:00 |
Aditya Chaturvedi: Kṛṣṇa as the Purport of the pramāṇacatuṣṭaya: Vallabhācārya on ekavākyatā and the Order of Authoritative Texts |
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12:00-12:30 |
Rosina Pastore: Discussing Nyāya in Brajbhāṣā? On Six Categories of Reasoning in Brajvāsīdās’s Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka |
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— Lunch Break — |
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Afternoon Section |
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14:00 |
Concluding Session |
Dr. Vitus Angermeier
Department of South
Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
University of Vienna
Spitalgasse 2, Courtyard 2.1
1090 Vienna, Austria
ORCİD: 0000-0002-8505-6112
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