Dear Amba,

I wondered if you might be able to post the following on Ars Inquirendi to INDOLOGY. 

Of particular interest to Buddhist, Tibetan and Sanskrit studies: Friday’s panel (20 November, 13:00–16:15 GMT) brings together Marieke Meelen (Cambridge) on language models for historical Tibetan; Amba Kulkarni (IIT Hyderabad) on a hybrid paradigm for Sanskrit computational linguistics, “From Pāṇini to LLMs”; and two talks on the Dunhuang manuscripts, Colin Brisson (EPHE) on reading texts and mapping scribal hands, and Xuelong Li’s team (Minzu University of China) on reassembling Dunhuang at LLM scale.  

Ars Inquirendi 2026: Querying Pre-Print Cultures with LLMs
St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and online, 20–22 November 2026

We are convening over thirty scholars from around the world to answer two questions: in the era of large language models, what can we now discover about the pre-print past that we could not before, and what would justify believing it? Keynotes by Peter Turchin and Marieke Meelen; three hands-on workshops.

Registration closes next week: online £10; in person £60 (students and unwaged £25).
Programme and registration: https://www.arsinq.com

With best wishes,
Stephen

Dr Stephen Pink
Co-organiser, Ars Inquirendi