- From 20 to 26 January, the workshop Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India will be organized by Ute Hüsken and Jonas Buchholz (University of Heidelberg) in the framework of the project "Temple Networks in Early Modern South India" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It aims to explore temple networks in South India through their representation in Sanskrit and Tamil texts, but also from an iconographic and architectural point of view, with a particular focus on the city of Kanchipuram, where the different Hindu traditions - Shivaism, Vishnuism and Shaktism - have interacted for centuries. - From 27 January to 7 February the 2nd SIVADHARMA workshop will be held. - From February 10 to March 6 will take place the 18th Classical Tamil Winter Seminar. The three workshops will bring together many scholars and students: Ute Huesken, Jonas Buchholz, Thomas Lehmann and Malini Ambach (University of Heidelberg); Crispin Branfoot and Shubha Shantamurthy (SOAS, London); Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz, Ilona Kedzia and Ewa Dębicka-Borek (Jagiellonian University of Krakow) ; Florinda de Simini, Margherita Trento, Csaba Kiss, Dorotea Operato and Nirajan Kafle (L'Orientale University of Naples); Emma Stein (Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian); Giulia Buriola (University "La Sapienza" of Rome); Annette Schmiedchen (Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt University of Berlin); Alessandro Battistini (University of Bologna) ; Csaba Desző and Roland Ferenczi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest); Eva Wilden (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg), Jean-Luc Chevillard (CNRS UMR 7597, HTL).
- Coline Lefrancq (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UMR 8564 - CEIAS - ERC DHARMA project, Paris, and associate researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) will arrive in Pondicherry on January 26th for one month. She will study archaeological sites - especially for this Arikamedu stay - and the associated pottery, testimony of the Bay of Bengal trade, highlighting the complex interaction of religion, state and society. - Leah Comeau (University of Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA), will spend five months in Pondicherry from January 15, to continue her research on her project entitled: "Tamil Literature and Inscriptions relating to Aesthetics of Gardens and Ornaments". |