The sixth NETamil Workshop on “Āḻvārs and Divyadeśas – Vaiṣṇava Regional and Vernacular Voices” organised at the Centre from 31st January to 3rd February 2017, was divided into two panels. The first, held on 31st January and 1st February and organized by Suganya Anandakichenin and Erin McCann (Hamburg), focused on the Vishnu poets (āḻvār). The following persons presented lectures:

Suganya Anandakichenin, “A note on the medieval woman-commentator Kōṉēri Dāsyai’s Commentary on the Tiruvāymoḻi”; S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma, “Appaya Dīkṣita’s Commentary on Vedānta Deśika’s Yādavābhyudayam” and “Krishna-devaraya’s magnum opus Āmuktamālyadā”; Lynn Ate, “Poetic Devices and Strategies in the Bhakti Period”; K.E. Dharaneedharan (Pondicherry University), “On Vedānta Deśika’s Munivāhanabhogam”; Dominic Goodall, “Shared features of the Pāñcarātra and
Śaivasiddhānta in the Tamil-speaking South”; Leslie C. Orr (Concordia University), “Viṣṇu of the deep South: Temples, patrons, and divine presence in southernmost Tamilnadu”, S.A.S. Sarma, “Yāmunācārya's journey to Anantapuram”; R. Sathyanarayanan, “Announcement of the critical edition and translation of the Śrīraṅgamāhātmyam”; Charlotte Schmid, “From a butter-eater to the Butter-thief”; Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), “On the 15th chapter (uttarakṛtyādhikāra) of Veṅkaṭanātha’s Rahasyatrayasāra”.

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