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Symposium

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

Date
Thursday 27 November 2025 - Friday 28 November 2025
Explanation
Various locations
Location
Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden

Programme: Day 1

Venue: Herta Mohr 0.02
8:45-9:15 Registration and coffee
9:15-9:30

Opening Remarks
Gabrielle van den Berg, Academic Director, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
Peter Bisschop & Saran Suebsantwiwongse, organisers

9:30-10:00

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, University Library

Programme: Day 2

Venue: Lipsius 1.23
9:00-9:15 Coffee
9:15-9:45

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.)

9:45-10:15

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 Marijke Klokke (keynote lecture)

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 Leiden
17:00-18:30 Reception - Lobby, Herta Mohr
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