Third International Indology Graduate Research Symposium
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-3
29-30th Septembre 2011
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Thursday 29rd September 2011
9.15 Welcoming and information
9.30 Introductory speech by Prof. Nalini Balbir
First Panel : Grammar
Chair : Giovanni Ciotti
9.45 Prof. Gopabandhu Mishra’s keynote : Grammar in poetry : Mahābhāṣyādarśa
10.30 Paolo Visigalli : The Cultural Specific Purposes of Grammar
11.00 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee Break
Grammar continued
Chair : Gopabandhu Mishra
11.30 Alastair Gornall : The Buddhism of Grammar in 12th Century Sri Lanka : An Alternative Perspective on the Saṅgha Reforms of Parākramabāhu I
12.00 Giovanni Ciotti : Does vyākaraṇa possess grammatical components? The case of the pratyāhārasūtras
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Second Panel : Philosophy
Chair : François Chenet
14.00 Marco Ferrante : How can we get salvation through language? Bhartṛhari on the concept of śabdapūrvayoga.
14.30 Daniele Cuneo : The changing garbs of the autonomy of aesthetic experience Dhanika’s laukikarasa = Abhinavagupta’s bhava?
15.00 Elisa Ganser : The creativity of the performer: a śaiva perspective
15.30 - 16.00 Tea/Coffee Break
Philosophy continued
Chair : François Chenet
16.00 Hugo David : Maṇḍana Miśra’s interpretation of upadeśa in the Vidhiviveka and the beginnings of Indian classical theory of action
16.30 Marie-Hélène Gorisse : Jain theory of inference in the Prameya-kamala-mārtaṇḍa
17.00 Jean-Michel Creismeas : Anatomical and embryological data of the Yājñavalkya-Smṛti
End of the day : 17.30
Friday 30th September 2011
Fourth Panel : Buddhist studies
Chair : Nalini Balbir
9.00 Dr. Ingo Strauch’s keynote : The “cult of the book” in early Mahāyāna : through the Gandharan looking-glass
9.45 Jessie Pons : Buddhist visual and textual narratives in Gandhāra
10.15 Mei Yang : Explaining the Teaching of the Yoginī : Abhayākaragupta’s commentary Abhayapaddhati on the Buddhakapālatantra
10.45 - 11.15 Tea/Coffee Break
Fifth Panel: Controversy and exchange
Chair : Nalini Balbir
11.15 Sven Wortmann : Concealment as strategy of exclusion? Early Brahmanical attitudes against ‘heterodox’ groups
11.45 Juan Wu : Manipulating Karma: Future Rebirths of Śreṇika Bimbisāra and Kūṇika Ajātaśatru in Buddhist and Jain Texts
12.15 – 14.00 Lunch
Sixth Panel : Religious studies
Chair : Nicolas Dejenne
14.00 Robert Leach : A Brief History of the Ekāntins
14.30 Nina Mirnig : Pāśupata Śaivism in the Licchavi Period, a preliminary survey of Epigraphical Evidence from Nepal
Seventh Panel: Sanskrit and Vernaculars, Sanskrit and diachrony
Chair : Nicolas Dejenne
15.00 Elaine Fisher : “Just Like Kālidāsa”: Śākta intellectuals of Seventeenth-century South India
15.30 Svevo D’Onofrio : Gauging Islam at Naimiṣa: Premodern prophecies in ancient garb
16.00 -16.30 Tea/Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30 Round table
End of the day: 17.30
The Third International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS3) is possible thanks to the generous financial support of:
the Research Laboratory “Mondes iranien et indien”
(CNRS, INALCO, EPHE, Sorbonne Nouvelle)