Themes and Special Panels
The call for abstracts has now closed and submitted abstracts are currently under review.
For each section, a set of invited convenors, specialists in the respective fields, will assist in maintaining a high scholarly standard for the conference. Convenors will select individual papers for presentation at WSC 2022 and nominate session chairs. The convenors will also be in charge of selecting and editing papers for publication in the proceedings.
Regular Sections (Themes)
| Sections | Convenors |
| Veda, वेदः | Hans Hock (Chair): hhhock@illinois.edu Shrikant Bahulkar: shrikantbahulkar@gmail.com Joanna Jurewicz: j.jurewicz@uw.edu.pl Stephanie Majcher: stephanie.majcher@anu.edu.au |
| Linguistics, भाषाशास्त्रम् | Jan Houben (Chair): johannes.houben@ephe.psl.eu Brendan Gillon: brendan.gillon@mcgill.ca |
| Vyākaraṇa, व्याकरणम् | Malhar Kulkarni (Chair): malhar@hss.iitb.ac.in Saroja Bhate: bhatesaroja@gmail.com Dipti Tripathi: diptitripathi999@gmail.com Peter Scharf: scharf@sanskritlibrary.org |
| Epics, रामायणं महाभारतं च | Adam Bowles (Chair): a.bowles1@uq.edu.au Simon Brodbeck: brodbecksp@cardiff.ac.uk James Hegarty: hegartyj@cardiff.ac.uk Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez: wjp26@cantab.net |
| Purāṇas, पुराणानि | Raj Balkaran (Chair): raj.balkaran@gmail.com McComas Taylor: mccomas.taylor@anu.edu.au Satyanarayan Chakraborty: satyanarayan01@yahoo.co.in |
| Tantra Studies, आगमास्तन्त्रं च | Michael Slouber (Chair): michael.slouber@wwu.edu Mrinal Kaul: mrinal.kaul@stx.oxon.org Judit Törzsök: judit.torzsok@ephe.psl.eu |
| Ritual Studies, विध्यनुष्ठानविमर्शः | Libbie Mills (Chair): libbie.mills@utoronto.ca Finnian Gerety: finnian_moore-gerety@brown.edu Ute Huesken: huesken@uni-heidelberg.de |
| Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics, काव्यमलङ्कारश्च | Daniele Cuneo (Chair): danielecuneo@hotmail.com Elisa Ganser: elijanart@yahoo.it Shonaleeka Kaul: shonaleeka@gmail.com Hari Dutt Sharma: hari_sanskrit@rediffmail.com Rajendran, C: crajenin@yahoo.com |
| Scientific Literature, वैज्ञानिकं वाङ्मयम् | Bill Mak (Chair): mak@zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp Clemency Montelle: clemency.montelle@canterbury.ac.nz Kim Plofker: plofkerk@union.edu |
| Buddhist Studies, बौद्धविद्या | Mark Allon (Chair): mark.allon@sydney.edu.au Lata Mahesh Deokar: hodpali@unipune.ac.in Mahesh Deokar: hodpali@unipune.ac.in Jason Neelis: jneelis@wlu.ca |
| Jaina Studies, जैनविद्या | Eva de Clercq (Chair): ev.declercq@ugent.be Giles Hooper and Vina Shah: info@svastha.com.au |
| Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism, वैष्णवमतं शैवमतं च | David Buchta (Chair): David_Buchta@brown.edu Christopher Austin: christopher.austin@dal.ca Elaine Fisher: emf@stanford.edu Travis Smith: tlsmith@snu.ac.kr |
| Philosophy, दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम् | Kengo Harimoto (Chair): k.harimoto@gmail.com Purushottama Billimoria: pb1@unimelb.edu.au Somdev Vasudev: somapati@gmail.com Shashiprabha Kumar: prof.shashiprabha@gmail.com |
| History, Art and Architecture, Epigraphy, डतिहासः कलाः स्थापत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं | Annette Schmiedchen (Chair): annette.schmiedchen@asa.hu-berlin.de Anna Slaczka: a.slaczka@rijksmuseum.nl Mike Skinner: mcskin@u.washington.edu |
| Sanskrit and Regional Languages (including Southeast Asia), संस्कृतं प्रदेशभाषाश्च | Andrea Acri (Chair): andrea.acri@ephe.psl.eu Tom Hunter: thomas.hunter@ubc.ca |
| Sanskrit Pedagogy, संस्कृतशिक्षाशास्त्रम् | Sadananda Das (Chair): sdaz@rz.uni-leipzig.de Antonia Ruppel: antonia.ruppel@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk |
| Modern Sanskrit Writings, आधुनिकं संस्कृतसाहित्यम् | Deven Patel (Chair): devenp@sas.upenn.edu Chandra Bhushan Jha: cbjha1@gmail.com Robert Zydenbos: zydenbos@uni-muenchen.de |
| Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities, संस्कृतं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी च | Gérard Huet (Chair): gerard.huet@inria.fr Amba Kulkarni: ambapradeep@gmail.com Ian McCrabb: iml@systemiksolutions.com |
| Manuscriptology, हस्तलेखविज्ञानम् | Nirmala Kulkarni (Chair): nirmalakulkarni@gmail.com Saraju Rath: sarajurath@yahoo.com |
| Law and Society, धर्मशास्त्रमर्थशास्त्रं च | Donald Davis (Chair): drdj@austin.utexas.edu Timothy Lubin: lubint@wlu.edu David Brick: djbrick@umich.edu |
| Yoga and Āyurveda, योगायुवेदौ | Jason Birch (Chair): letusconnect@hotmail.com Philipp Maas: philipp.a.maas@gmail.com Martha Selby: mas@austin.utexas.edu |
| Gender and Sanskrit Studies, संस्कृतं पुंस्त्वं स्त्रीत्वं च | Iris Iran Farkondeh: iran_farkhondeh@yahoo.fr Saran Suebsantiwongse: ss2380@cam.ac.uk |
Special Panels
| Section | Special Panel Title | Chair |
| Veda | Maitrāyaṇī Saṁhitā: its history, background and relation to the other Vedic texts | Kyoko Amano, Kyoto University
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| Veda | Yāska’s theology: classifying and defining deities in the Late Vedic Age | Yūto Kawamura, University of Oxford, and Paolo Visigalli, Shanghai Normal University |
| Linguistics | Uncovering Sanskrit syntax | John Lowe, University of Oxford |
| Epics | The Mahābhārata and later Pāñcarātra | Vishwa Adluri, Hunter College, City University of New York |
| Epics | Cosmology, cosmography and time in the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas | Ruth Satinsky, University of Lausanne |
| Philosophy | Towards a history of the Mīmāṃsā system | Elisa Freschi, Austrian Academy of Science |
| Philosophy | What kind of “Vedic exegesis” is Mīmāṃsā? | Hugo David, École française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Philosophy | The Yuktidīpikā: forging a place for Sāṅkhya in Indian intellectual history | Hyoung Seok Ham, Chonnam National University, and Noemie Verdon, Kyoto University |
| Philosophy | Historicising Mīmāṃsā commitments | Purushottama Bilimoria, University of Melbourne |
| Sanskrit and Regional
Languages |
(Re) Translation of Sanskrit literature into Thai: reintroduction of Sanskrit studies to Thai society | Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, Cornell University |
| Sanskrit and Regional
Languages |
New reflections on South and Southeast Asian Sanskrit epigraphy | Amarjiva Lochan, University of Delhi |
| Sanskrit and Regional
Languages |
Sanskrit and Indonesia | Robert Zydenbos, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, and Andrea Acri, École française d’Extrême-Orient |
| Yoga and Āyurveda | Rājayoga, combining philological research with ethnography, modern history and political studies | Jason Birch, SOAS, London |
| Yoga and Āyurveda | Soma, recitation and yoga | Joanna Jurewicz, University of Warsaw |
| Gender | Mahila-vakyartha- sabha and Kavayitrisangama | Shivani V, Karnataka Samskrit University |
SPECIAL CALL FOR FULL PAPERS – Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities Section
Convenors: Gérard Huet, Amba Kulkarni & Ian McCrabb
FULL papers are invited on original and unpublished research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities related to Sanskrit (Classical and Vedic), Prakrit, Pali, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, etc. Accepted papers are to be published in advance of the WSC 2021 meetings in January 2021, or soon thereafter.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – Special Panel on Sanskrit Syntax at the 2021 World Sanskrit Conference in Canberra
We invite abstracts to be submitted for this special panel.
