Transdisciplinary
Approaches to the Rāmāyaṇa
and
Mahābhārata
International
Online Seminar Series
CONFIRMED
PROGRAMME
Thurs 3 June 2021, 1400--1630 BST
Gayathri Iyer (JNU): “Ravana Anugraḥamūrti
as Seen through the Eyes of Śiva’s
Gaṇás:
Commentary or Humour?”
John Brockington (Edinburgh): “Some Illustrated
Vālmīki
Rāmāyaṇa
Manuscripts”
Giulia Buriola (La Sapienza): “Shaping Identities through the
Rāmāyaṇa:
Interpreting Prapannāmṛta
123–126”
Thurs 10 June, 1400--1630 BST
Panel:
Polish
Mahābhārata
Translation Project
Joanna Jurewicz (Warsaw): “Vyāsa
as a Film-Maker. Creating of Battle-Scenes in Selected Examples of MBh 6”
Andrzej Babkiewicz (Warsaw): “Weapons
in the Mahābhārata
–
an Attempt of Reconstruction”
Sven Sellmer (AMU Poznań): “Computer-Based
Analysis of the Usage of Expressions Denoting Weapons in the
Mahābhārata”
Thurs 17 June, 1400--1630 BST
Shubha Pathak (American): “Demonic and Demidivine Beauty in the Eyes of Demidivine and Demonic Beholders:
Making Hanumat Disbelieve and Duryodhana Misbelieve through (A-)Puruṣārthic
Assembly-Hall Aesthetics in the Rāmāyaṇa
and
Mahābhārata”
Saran Suebsantiwongse (Cambridge): “When Thai Kings Became ‘Rāma’:
Origin, Function and Interpretation of the Rāmakien as
Seen through the History, Politics and Material Culture of Thailand”
Emily Hudson: “Hiding in Plain Sight: the Surprise Twist in the
Vālmīki
Rāmāyaṇa”
Thurs 24 June, 1400--1630 BST
Roberto Morales-Harley (Málaga):
“Lifting Brides / Lifting Enemies: Male Embraces in the Mahābhārata’s
Virāṭaparvan
and Bhāsa’s
Pañcarātram”
Harold Wiese (Leipzig): “Decisions in the
Mahābhārata”
Christopher Austin (Dalhousie): “Subrahmaṇya Kṛṣṇa: Stolen and Unstolen Cows in the
Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa”
Thurs 1 July, 1400--1630 BST
Panel: Resonances of Separation: Pathos, Compassion, and Divinity in
Rāmāyaṇa
Narratives
Mercy Dutta (JNU): “Loving like a Spouse, Ruling like a King: Historicizing Emotional Conflict
through Bhavabhūti’s
Uttararāmacaritam”
Tarinee Awasthi (Cornell): “Pathos and Compassion in the
Rāmacaritamānasa
and Beyond”
Aditya Chaturvedi (Emory): “Revealing the Goddess: Sītā’s
Response to Separation from Rāma
in Rameśvaracarita
Mithilā
Rāmāyaṇa”
Thurs 8 July, 1400--1630 BST
Max Deeg (Cardiff): “The Buddha in the ‘Wild West’: Jātakas
and Other Stories in Gandhāra
and their Religio-Political Context”
Suganya Anandakichenin (Hamburg): “Nindāstuti or stutinindā?
Śiśupāla’s
words on Kṛṣṇa
in Villipputtūrar’s
Tamil Pāratam”
Simon Brodbeck (Cardiff): “Holst’s
Sāvitri
Libretto”