Conferences
Centre members have been invited to speak at a number of conferences, seminars and workshops around the world. Here are some of the highlights:
2011
Jaina Narratives Conference at SOAS, London, March 2011
Naomi Appleton was invited to speak at the annual SOAS conference on Jaina studies, this year themed on narrative traditions. Her paper was entitled ‘Jinas-to-be and Bodhisattvas: Paths to Perfection in Jain and Buddhist Rebirth Narratives’.
Mapping Ancient Near Eastern Masculinities, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsyvania, USA, 24th–26th March, 2011.
Simon Brodbeck gave a paper entitled "Mapping Masculinities in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa: Towards an Existential Textology".
28th Annual Seminar on the Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World (STIMW), University of Manchester, 27th May 2011.
Simon Brodbeck gave a paper entitled "The Ancient Indian Rājasūya Revisited".
Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, nr. Taipei, Taiwan, June 2011.
Both Max Deeg and Naomi Appleton convened panels and gave papers at this key international gathering of Buddhologists.The photo below shows the participants on the Jataka panel, which was convened by Naomi Appleton and Arthid Sheravanichkul (second from right).
Sixth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas (DICSEP6), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 15th–20th August, 2011.
Simon Brodbeck gave a paper entitled "Aśvatthāman's Jewel and the Syamantaka in Lineal Perspective".
2010
Simon Brodbeck visits India, January 2010
Simon Brodbeck was invited to a number of events during a trip to India in January 2010. At a conference entitled "Revisiting Kālidāsa’s Abhijñāna-śākuntalam. Land, Love, Languages: Forms of Exchange in Ancient India", at Miranda House, Delhi University, January 20th–21st, he presented a paper was entitled "The Rejection of Śakuntalā in the Mahābhārata". He also gave a paper in the History Seminar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, on 13th January, entitled "Refuge and Reform: Snakes, Gleaners, and Niṣādas in the Sanskrit Epics"; and an impromptu talk on "Sanskrit Studies in the UK" on the 15th January at the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi; and a more formal talk on 18th January at the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Delhi, on "Sanskrit Studies in the UK, and my current research".
Lumbinī International Research Institute, Lumbinī, Nepal, January 11th-13th, 2010: Buddhist Pilgrimage in History and Present Times
Max Deeg read a paper entitled ‘To What Extent Do the So-Called Chinese "Pilgrim Records" Reflect Pilgrimage? A Revision of Literary Genre and Its Context’, and James Hegarty read ‘From the Public Imagination of Bhāratavarṣa to the Kaśmīr Valley: Disappearing Bauddhas and the Logic and Power of Pilgrimage in Selected Brahminical Sources.’
The Hong Kong Chinese University, Hong Kong, September 18th-20th, 2010: International Conference on Urban Cultural Change in Republican China (1910s-1940s): Dialogue between Cultural Narrative and Historical GIS
Federica Ferlanti read a paper entitled ‘City-building, New Life and the ‘Making of the Citizen’ in 1930s Nanchang’.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, August 9th-11th, 2010: International Conference on Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond
Naomi Appleton was an invited speaker at this exciting conference on Buddhist narrative traditions. She read a paper entitled ‘Continuity or Chaos? Karma and Rebirth in Early Buddhist and Jain Narrative’.
Second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 23rd–24th September 2010.
Simon Brodbeck gave the keynote address, entitled "Putrikā Interpretation of the Mahābhārata".
39th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, 14th–17th October, 2010.
Simon Brodbeck gave a paper entitled "Analytic and Synthetic Approaches in light of the Poona Edition", in a panel entitled "The Critical Edition and its Critics: a Retrospective of Mahābhārata Scholarship".
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 30th October-1st November, 2010.
Simon Brodbeck chaired a panel entitled "The Mahābhārata: End and Endings".