Symposium

Amṛta: Between Myth and Materiality – A Symposium in Honour of Marijke Klokke

Day 1 – Thursday, 27 November 2025

Venue: Herta Mohr Building (Room 0.02)

08:45 – 09:15 Registration and Coffee

09:15 – 09:30 Opening Remarks
Gabrielle van den Berg, Academic Director, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)

Peter Bisschop & Saran Suebsantiwongse, organisers

09:30 – 10:00 Ellen Raven
Blends with Purpose: Two Cases of a Hybrid Iconography

10:00 – 10:30 Peter Bisschop
Nectar and Poison: The Amṛtamanthana Myth in the Skandapurāṇa

10:30 – 11:00 William Southworth
The Churning of the Ocean at Angkor Wat

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 Bernard Arps
Dancing the Water of Immortality at a Javanese Court

12:00 – 12:30 Nur Ahmad
Divine Mercy at the Meeting of the Two Oceans: A Javanese Sufi Perspective

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 17:00 Special Collections Visit — Vossius Room, Library

Day 2 – Friday, 28 November 2025

Venue: Lipsius Building (Room 1.23)

09:00 – 09:15 Coffee

09:15 – 09:45 Véronique Degroot (in collaboration with Agustiyanto Indrajaya, Sondang Siregar, Ari Mukti Wardoyo Adi, Yohan Chabot)

Pleasing the Gods, Feeding the People: Water Management around the Bumiayu Temple Complex, South Sumatra (9th - 12th c.)

09:45 – 10:15 Anna Ślączka
In Pursuit of Immortality and Health: Jvara, the God of Fever, in Nepal and Tamil Nadu

10:15 – 10:45 Sandra Sardjono
From India to Indonesia: A Rāmāyaṇa Cloth in Ambon

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00 Keynote Lecture, Marijke Klokke

From Text to Image: Amṛtamanthana and Other Themes in South and Southeast Asian Art

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 16:30 Visit to Wereldmuseum

17:00 – 18:30 Reception — Lobby, Herta Mohr