Conference

7th Coffee Break Conference: Comparisons Across Time and Space

Date: Thursday 8 September 2016 - Saturday 10 September 2016
Location: Vrieshof 2, room 004 and Lipsius, room 227
Leiden University

Thursday, September 8th, Venue: Vrieshof 2/004

Panel 1
Local (Hi)stories: Cases from India
Chairperson: Ewa Dębicka-Borek (Jagiellonian University)

10:30-10:40	Welcome
10:40-11:20	Anna Nitecka (Jagiellonian University) The Motif of Penance in the Myth of Kāmākṣī
11:20-11:40	Tea/coffee
11:40-12:20	Letizia Trinco (Sapienza University of Rome) On Lord Khaṇḍobā and Ancestors Worship: Some Remarks on a Maharashtrian Variant of Bhakti as Reflected in Material Culture
12:20-13:00	Hermina Cielas (Jagiellonian University) Local Components in Pan-Indian Form: A.R. Rajaraja Varma's Works in the Service of New Sanskritism
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:10	Richard Williams (University of Oxford) Playing the Spinal Chord: Tantric Musicology and Bengali Songs
15:10-15:50	Aleksandra Turek (University of Warsaw) Sita of Sindh
15:50-16:10	Tea/coffee
16:10-16:50	Justyna Wiśniewska-Singh (University of Warsaw) The Image of the Sacred Cow and the Reinterpretation of Tradition in the Colonial Northern India
16:50-17:30	Noelle Counord (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris) History and Narratives of Migration Through the Lens of Oral Literature
17:30-19:00	Drinks

Friday, September 9th, Venue: Lipsius/227

Panel 2
Bridging Stylistic and Moral Distances: The Translation and Reception of Pre-Modern, Non-Western Erotic Literature
Chairperson: Maddalena Italia (SOAS)

09:00-09:40	Hany Mohamed Ali Rashwan (SOAS) Visual Untranslatability of Ancient Egyptian Erotic Poetry
09:40-10:20	Lucrezia Botti (SOAS) The Aesthetic Allure and Moral Ambivalence of the Dressing Case: A Preliminary Study on the Early Reception of Wang Cihui’s (1593-1642) Xianglianti (Fragrant-Dressing-Case Style) Poetry
10:20-11:00	Liwen Tu (University of Oxford) A Study of a Subversive and Erotic Kanbun in the Mid-Heian Period: "A New Account of Sarugaku"
11:00-11:20	Tea/coffee
11:20-12:00	Adrian Plau (SOAS) The Female Flute: Gender, Sexuality and Devotion in the Sūrdās Tradition
12:00-12:40	Maddalena Italia (SOAS) Against the Sanskrit Canon? Classicism, Anti-Classicism and the Erotic in Colonial Northern India
12:40-14:00	Lunch

Panel 3
Material Matters: Images, Objects, and Religion in Premodern South Asia
Chairperson: Elizabeth Cecil (British Museum/Leiden University)

14:00-14:40	Laxshmi Greaves (Cardiff University) The Enigma of the Centauress and Her Lover
14:40-15:20	Sanne Mersch (Leiden University) Trading the Interplay of Text and Image: The Case of the Varāha Myth in the Skandapurāṇa
15:20-16:00	Mirjam Westra (University of Groningen) Patterns in Śaiva Iconography at the Indian Fort of Kālañjara (c. 9-12th century CE)
16:00-16:20	Tea/coffee
16:20-17:00	Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Pennsylvania) Doing Landscape Reception in South Asia: recovering experienced landscapes, mapping in situ objects, dating dilemmas
17:00-17:40	Lewis Doney (British Museum) Tibetan Imperial Temple Bells and the Confluence of Indic Phraseology and Chinese Technology
17:40-18:20	Elizabeth Cecil (British Museum/Leiden University) Epigraphic Encounters: Inscriptions, Monuments, and Museums in South and South-East Asia

Saturday, September 10th, Venue: Lipsius/227

Panel 4
Centre and Periphery in Indian Philosophy and Beyond
Chairperson: Lucas den Boer (Leiden University)

09:40-10:20	Himal Trikha (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Perspectivism Versus Exclusivism in the Jaina Vidyānandin's Works
10:20-11:00	Evgeniya Desnitskaya (Saint Petersburg State University) Bhartṛhari's Perspectivism as a Philosophical Strategy: Its Origins and Possible Interpretations
11:00-11:40	Tea/coffee (Café Ubé)
11:40-12:20	Ana Bajželj (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Polonsky Academy) Appropriating the Centre: Jaina Doctrine of Causality
12:20-13:00	Giacomo Baggio (University of Groningen) Sengzhao 僧肇（384–414） and the Chinese Reception of Mādhyamika
13:00-14:10	Lunch
14:10-14:50	Gregory Forgues (University of Vienna) Ju Mi Pham's Perspectivist Approach to Buddhist Philosophy
14:50-15:30	Marie-Hélène Gorisse (SOAS/Gonda Fellow) Adaptive Strategies in the Jain Characterisation of Authority
15:30-16:10	Tea/coffee (Café Ubé)
16:10-16:50	Jonathan Duquette (University of Oxford) Vīraśaivism in the Periphery of Vedānta and the Formation of Śivādvaita
16:50-17:30	Lucas den Boer (Leiden University) On the Context and Character of Umāsvāti’s Epistemology
17:30-17:45	Final remarks and group picture
19:00	Conference dinner

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