Transdisciplinary approches to the Rāmāyana and the Mahābhārata

Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata

International Online Seminar Series
Cardiff University

programme

Every thursday between 3rd June and 8th June 2021, 14.00-16.30 bst on zoom.
Convened by Simon Brodbeck, Laxshmi Greaves and James Hegarty.

Confirmed programme

Thurs 3 June 2021, 1400–1630 BST

Gayathri Iyer (JNU): “Ravana Anugraḥamūrti as Seen through the Eyes of Śiva’s Gaṇás: Commentary or Humour?”

John Brockington (Edinburgh): “Some Illustrated Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Manuscripts”

Giulia Buriola (La Sapienza): “Shaping Identities through the Rāmāyaṇa: Interpreting Prapannāmṛta 123–126”

Thurs 10 June, 1400–1630 BST

Panel: Polish Mahābhārata Translation Project

Joanna Jurewicz (Warsaw): “Vyāsa as a Film-Maker. Creating of Battle-Scenes in Selected Examples of MBh 6”

Andrzej Babkiewicz (Warsaw): “Weapons in the Mahābhārata – an Attempt of Reconstruction”

Sven Sellmer (AMU Poznań): “Computer-Based Analysis of the Usage of Expressions Denoting Weapons in the Mahābhārata”

Thurs 17 June, 1400–1630 BST

Shubha Pathak (American): “Demonic and Demidivine Beauty in the Eyes of Demidivine and Demonic Beholders: Making Hanumat Disbelieve and Duryodhana Misbelieve through (A-)Puruṣārthic Assembly-Hall Aesthetics in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata”

Saran Suebsantiwongse (Cambridge): “When Thai Kings Became ‘Rāma’: Origin, Function and Interpretation of the Rāmakien as Seen through the History, Politics and Material Culture of Thailand”

Emily Hudson: “Hiding in Plain Sight: the Surprise Twist in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa”

Thurs 24 June, 1400–1630 BST

Roberto Morales-Harley (Málaga): “Lifting Brides / Lifting Enemies: Male Embraces in the Mahābhārata’s Virāṭaparvan and Bhāsa’s Pañcarātram”

Harold Wiese (Leipzig): “Decisions in the Mahābhārata”

Christopher Austin (Dalhousie): “Subrahmaṇya Kṛṣṇa: Stolen and Unstolen Cows in the Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa”

Thurs 1 July, 1400–1630 BST

Panel: Resonances of Separation: Pathos, Compassion, and Divinity in Rāmāyaṇa Narratives

Mercy Dutta (JNU): “Loving like a Spouse, Ruling like a King: Historicizing Emotional Conflict through Bhavabhūti’s Uttararāmacaritam”

Tarinee Awasthi (Cornell): “Pathos and Compassion in the Rāmacaritamānasa and Beyond”

Aditya Chaturvedi (Emory): “Revealing the Goddess: Sītā’s Response to Separation from Rāma in Rameśvaracarita Mithilā Rāmāyaṇa”

Thurs 8 July, 1400–1630 BST

Max Deeg (Cardiff): “The Buddha in the ‘Wild West’: Jātakas and Other Stories in Gandhāra and their Religio-Political Context”

Suganya Anandakichenin (Hamburg): “Nindāstuti or stutinindā? Śiśupāla’s words on Kṛṣṇa in Villipputtūrar’s Tamil Pāratam”

Simon Brodbeck (Cardiff): “Holst’s Sāvitri Libretto”

To register

https://cardiff.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdOuppjMjGNc8Jutfg_p8OehzkShiutbv

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