Program


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 18:30-12:00 (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 215:00-18:30 (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.