The conference will be held in two time slots (Part 1 and Part 2). The recording of the paper presentations will be made available on the website during the period of the conference only for registered participants.
| Part 1 | 8:30-12:00 (Japan) 23:30-03:00 (UTC) | 19:30-23:00 (New York, Toronto) 16:30-20:00 (Los Angeles, British Colombia) 00:30-04:00 (London) 01:30-05:00 (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic) 02:30-06:00 (Bulgaria) 5:00-8:30 (India) 7:30-11:00 (Beijing) 9:30-13:00 (Sydney) |
| Part 2 | 15:00-18:30 (Japan) 06:00 -9:30 (UTC) | 02:00-05:30 (New York, Toronto) 23:00-02:30 (Los Angeles, British Colombia) 07:00-10:30 (London) 08:00-11:30 (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic) 09:00-11:30 (Bulgaria) 11:30-15:00 (India) 14:00-17:30 (Beijing) 16:00-19:30 (Sydney) |
Timetable of presentations
15th (Friday) July, 2022 15:00-18:00 (Japan)/06:00 -09:00 (UTC)
15:00- Connection test for Zoom (for Keynote presenters and discussants)
15:15- Opening Address
Hiroko Nagasaki
Danuta Stasik
Keynote Presentation (following opening address)
Em. Prof. Dr. Winand M. Callewaert
“The Callewaert Collection“
Discussant: Imre Bangha
Keynote Presentation
Em. Prof. Dr. Monika Horstmann
“Beyond the Cakras”
Discussant: Tyler Williams
16th (Saturday) July, 2022
Session I: 9:00-10:00 (Japan) / 00:00-01:00 (UTC)
Chair: Jaroslav Strnad
Christopher Diamond – Poetic Villains and the Making of Maithil Kings in Vidyāpati’s Padāvalī
Hiroko Nagasaki – Another Sūrdās
Session II: 10:00-12:00 (Japan) / 01:00-03:00 (UTC)
Chair: Heidi Pauwels
Akshara Ravishankar – Tell me that Tale: Form, Genre and Scholasticism in Two Early Hindi Bhagavad Gītās
Kiyokazu Okita – Rādhā’s Moral Discourse: Contextualizing the Extramarital Relationship in Baḍu Caṇḍīdās’ Śrīkṛṣṇakīrtan
Christine Marrewa-Karwoski & Murad Mumtaz – Sensing the Sacred: Ascetic and Visual Vocabularies in Early Modern Rajasthan
John Stratton Hawley – Poetic Selfhood and the Copyright Raj
Session III: 15:00-16:30 (Japan) / 06:00 -07:30 (UTC)
Chair: Kiyokazu Okita
Biljana Zrnic – Toward a Critical Edition of Sūrdās’ Section in the Sharma Manuscript
WANG Jing – Research on the Folk Characteristics of the Sūrasāgara
Florence Pasche Guignard – Maternal figures and engagement in bhakti in two Vaiṣṇava hagiographic collections: A matricentric feminist reading in religious studies
Session IV: 16:30-18:00 (Japan) / 07:30-09:00 (UTC)
Chair: Aleksandra Turek
Swapna Sharma – Vallabharasik: A creative Bhakt
Radosław Tekiela – Wandering in the Indian romances
Abhishek Bose – Cruel Krishna, Caring Krishna: Of Signatures and Metatext in Vaishnava Padāvali̅
17th (Sunday) July, 2022
Session V: 8:30-10:00 (Japan) / 23:30-01:00 (UTC)
Chair: Monika Horstmann
John E. Cort – One Text, Two Titles, Three Sects, Nine Languages: Jain Multiple Language Use and Cosmopolitanism
Heleen De Jonckheere – “Let me tell you about the origin of śrāddha.” Early-modern Jain perspectives about death rituals
Tomoyuki Yamahata – Poems on Holy Places as the Foundation of Old Gujarati Literature
Session VI: 10:00-11:30 (Japan) / 01:00-02:30 (UTC)
Chair: John Stratton Hawley
Tyler W. Williams – Prāgadās Dādūpanthī: The Career of a Merchant Monk
Jaroslav Strnad – Reflections of Kabīr in the early Dādūpanthī and Sikh spiritual paths
Manpreet Kaur – Farid Parcī by Anantadas
Session VII: 15:00-17:00 (Japan) / 06:00 -08:00 (UTC)
Chair: Nadia Cattoni
Rabi Prakash – ‘Political’ Hagiography in Vernacular: History and Ideology in Early Modern Brajbhasha Carit Kāvya
Aleksandra Turek – Individuality against Collectivity: Pragmatic Goals of Ḍiṅgaḷ gīt Literary Compositions
Mahipal Singh Rathore – Junjhar Worship and early Hindi Literature
Ravi Prakash – Housing the Rajput: Innovation in the Baramasa of Keshavdas
Session VIII: 17:00-18:30 (Japan) / 08:00-09:30 (UTC)
Chair: Swapna Sharma
Stefania Cavaliere – A new ethical and philosophical education for the Princes of Mughal India. Yogavāsiṣṭha and moral allegories in the Kavīndrakalpalatā of Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī
Sushant Bharti – The Social context of Eighteenth-Century Vrindavan through the Eyes of Nagaridas
Heidi Pauwels – Recovering the Voice of “India’s Mona Lisa”
18th (Monday) July, 2022
Session IX: 9:00-10:00 (Japan) / 00:00-01:00 (UTC)
Chair: Tomio Mizokami
Anne Murphy – Assessing Gurmukhi cultural production in the late early modern period: the case of the Vicārmālā in the field of “Greater Avaita”
Julie Vig – Mapping a Sikh Landscape beyond Punjab: Literary Geographies and Community Formation in Gurbilās Literature
Session X: 10:00-11:30 (Japan) / 01:00 -02:30 (UTC)
Chair: Christine Marrewa-Karwoski
David N. Lorenzen – Kabir and Islam
Murad Khan Mumtaz – Dastan-i Kabir: The Enduring Legacy of Kabir in 18th- and 19th-Century Muslim South Asia
Akansha Singh – Afghans and the Politics of Alliances in Early-Modern South Asia, c. 1585-1612
Session XI: 15:00-16:30 (Japan) / 06:00-07:30 (UTC)
Chair: Thomas de Brujin
Richard David Williams & Makoto Kitada – The Queen Regent’s Rose Garden: Patronage and Interregnum in the Gulšan-ě-‘išq (1658)
Annalisa Bocchetti – Soī citerā, yaha jaga citra kīnha jehi kerā…:The Symbolism of Painting in the Citrāvalī by Usmān (1613 CE)
Nagwant Singh – Potentiality of the Rasprabodh: Revealing Interiority and Emotional Community(ies)
Session XII: 16:30-18:00 (Japan) / 07:30-09:00 (UTC)
Chair: Francesca Orsini
Maria Puri – Cūkā gauṇu miṭiā ãdhiāru, guri dikhlāiā mukti duāru…: Mystical ascent through divine word in Guru Arjan’s hymn in Rag Parbhati
Rosina Pastore – “For the benefit of people”: Bhuvadev Dube’s (19th c.) Hindi translation of Brajvāsīdās’s Brajbhāṣā Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka (1760)
Raman P. Sinha – Songs & Dance: The songs of Bindadin Maharaj and the evolution of Kathak in 19th century
19th (Tuesday) July, 2022
08:30-9:30 (Japan)/23:30-00:30 (UTC)
The plenary session
Determination of the next organizer, publication, etc.