6th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium

Hamburg, October 6th to 8th, 2014

Programme

Monday, October 6th

9:009:15

Welcome

Keynote Lecture
9:1510:00

Prof. Harunaga Isaacson (Hamburg): TBA

Morning session
10:0010:30

Lucas den Boer (Groningen): Guaratnas Refutation of the Crvka

10:3011:00

Perspective on Consciousness
An Analysis of Tarkarahasyadpik 49.109-119
Edgar Leitan (Dresden): Afflictions of Fate? Questioning the WorldviewRelated Category Daiva in the Context of a Didactic Discourse of
Draupad in MBh 3.33

11:0011:30

Tea/coffee

11:3012:00
12:0012:30

Jooyoung Lim (Hamburg): On the Different Commentarial Interpretations of Tad-viparyay-'bhavt (Skhyakarik 14)
Dr. Michael Williams (Vienna): An Early-Modern Commentary on the
Nyyastras: Two New Manuscripts of Vaadhara's Nyyatattvapark

12:3014:00

Lunch

Afternoon session
14:0014:30
14:3015:00
15:0015:30

Daisy Cheung (Hamburg): "Guru, I Had a Bad Dream..." Dream and

Omens in Indian Tantric Buddhist Initiation

Jung Lan Bang (Hamburg): The Trika Tradition's Yogic Practices for
Attraction: The 27th Chapter of the Tantrasadbhva
Patricia Sauthoff (London): Secret Terminology in Kashmir aiva
Literature: Chummak in the Svacchanda Tantra

15:3016:00

Tea/coffee

16:0016:30

Christian Ferstl (Vienna): The Early Depictions of Pupata Ascetics in

16:3017:00

kvya Literature

Jacob Schmidt-Madsen (Copenhagen): What's in a Game? Rediscovering

the Indian Origins of Snakes & Ladders

Tuesday, October 7th

Keynote Lecture
9:1510:00

PD Dr. Eva Wilden (Hamburg): Working on Texts Working with

Manuscripts

Morning session
10:0010:30

10:3011:00

Melinda Fodor (Paris): Bursting Into Loud Laughter: Vile-Tongued

Buffoonery as a Means of Gaining Popularity. A Study Based on Saaka

Plays

Maddalena Italia (London): Sgra, Amor, Eros: Nineteenth Century

Latin Translations of Sanskrit Erotic Poetry

11:0011:30

Tea/coffee

11:3012:00

Gaia Pintucci (Hamburg): A New Adornment. The Story of the Goldsmith

Who Became an alakrika
Dr. Prakash Venkatesan (Pondicherry): Kaikkiai and Peruntiai:
Constitutive Theme of Tiai Tradition

12:0012:30
12:3014:00

Lunch

Afternoon session
14:0014:30
14:3015:00

Lidia Szczepanik (Krakow): A Garland of Adornments of Speech: Poetic

Strategies in the Vmaanaguadtakvya
Sander Hens (Ghent): Criticizing a Popular Hero: Moral Explanations for

15:0015:30

Defeat in Nayacandra Sris Hammramahkvya

Florian Fischer (Mainz): Naiyer Masud Edition, Interpretation and
Translation of Three Selected Short Stories

15:3016:00

Tea/coffee

16:0016:30

Akane Saito (Kyoto): The Different Semantic Range of Payant and

Sphoa in the Grammatical Theories of the Word
Kristen de Joseph (Leiden): Towards a Formal Account of Vedic Meter

16:3017:00

Wednesday, October 8th

Morning session
9:009:30

9:3010:00
10:0010:30

Charles DiSimone (Munich): Intertextuality and (Un?)originality in the

Sanskrit Drghgama Manuscript and the Development of gama/

Nikya Literature
Andrea Schlosser (Munich/Berlin): Mahyna Features in Early
Kharoh Manuscripts from Gandhra
Tillo Detige (Groningen): Venerable Feet: Devotion and Commemoration
in Digambara Jainism

10:3011:00

Tea/coffee

11:0011:30

Patrick McCartney (Canberra/Heidelberg): Cultivating the Legitimate

11:3012:00
12:0012:30

Disposition with the Gurus Aesthetic Vision

Vidya Kumari Shimladka (Bangalore): Retracing the De Tradition
Through Texts and Sculptures of Karnataka
Katarzyna Skiba (Krakow): A Heroine in Pangs of Separation or a Soul
Longing for the Divine? Reappropriated Voices in the Poetry of Kathak
Dance Repertoire