Dear Members of the INDOLOGY list,
The 15th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) will take place at Leiden University, the Netherlands, on 30 and 31 October 2025.
We invite early-career researchers to send in an abstract. Please see the details of the CfP below.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Olli-Pekka Littunen
Leiden University
IIGRS 15 Call for Papers
Submission of papers:If you wish to present a paper, please submit an abstract via the Google Form on our website (
https://iigrs.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/) by 31 May. You will be notified of your results by 15 June.
Abstracts should include:
1. Your name and institution
2. Indication of research degrees and positions held
3. The title of your paper
4. An outline of its contents (in 300 words, excluding optional references)
Eligibility:
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who have obtained their PhD within the last five years.
Subjects:
The subject of your paper may be any Indological topic, provided that it is based on primary sources in the original language. This includes, but is not limited to, philological, text-historical, manuscript-based, historical or literary studies.
Presentation:
If your abstract is accepted, you will be allowed a slot of thirty minutes for presentation and questions. This should consist of a twenty-minute presentation and a ten-minute discussion.
Organizing committee: Sanne Dokter-Mersch, Kristen de Joseph and Olli-Pekka Littunen.