PondicherryJulie Rocton, doctoral student at Aix-Marseille University, CPAF-TDMAM and scholar of the EFEO will spend 3 months (February 10 to May 31, 2020) to pursue her research on the manuscripts of Abhinayadarpana attributed to Nandikeshvara. Léa Maronet, from the École Pratique des Hautes Études will arrive in February 2020 for a 2-month internship. Her research will focus on the cultural enhancement of the archaeological site of Arikamedu, an important site for the study of trade in the Indian Sea with the Mediterranean region during the Roman imperial period. Alice Baudeuin (University of Lyon 2) will come to Pondicherry in February 2020 to spend 2 months working on her project "Tourism and the ancient of Arikamedu". Her studies will focus on the archaeological site of Arikamedu, an important site for the study of Indian maritime trade with the Mediterranean region during the Imperial Roman era and on the problems and representations of tourism in southern India. V. R. Guruprashad Arvind, a student who has applied to begin a doctorate at Deccan College, Pune, will benefit from a local Scholarship of 4 months at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO to work on preparing the content for posters and other displays for the "Arikamedu Museum and Interpretation Centre" project, which is financed by Tourism Department of Pondicherry. Annette Schmiedchen (Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt University) will leave on 14 February 2020 after spending 3 weeks at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO studying Sanskrit, Kannada, and Telugu inscriptions (6 to 13 century CE) in order to throw light on the complex interplay of religion, state and society. She will also participate in reading sessions with researchers of the Centre, she will visit the ASI Epigraphy branch in Mysore as well as the Government Museum and Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology in Chennai. Ilona Kędzia from the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) will complete her month-long stay at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO on February 10 2020 during which she will pursue her research on “Tamil Siddha medico-alchemical literature from cultural-ecological perspective”. Her research is based on the study of selected Tamil Siddha medico-alchemical texts in reference to the theories of cultural ecology of literature. Roland Ferenczi, doctoral student of the ELTE University (Budapest, Hungary) will arrive on February 8 to spend a month to read and translate several poems of the Patiṟṟuppattu and Puṟanāṉūṟu and to analyse them in regards to the Tolkāppiyam with the help of scholars of the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO. S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma will be going to Vishakhapatnam from February 3 to 7 2020 to participate in a traditional conference entitled Śri Sacchidanandendra śāstrārtha-sadas where he will discuss the topic “Vyāptēśca samañañjasam (bra.sū.3.3.4) iti (1-1-1) Bādarāyaṇa- sūtrā rthavicāraḥ”. S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma has been invited as a Guest Scholar for the research seminar of the project Use of belles-lettres in Basic Sanskrit Education in the Early Modern South Asia, financed by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) number 17K17835 which will be held at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan, from 12 to 25 February 2020. The Seminar will critically evaluate the results of the above-mentioned research project and concentrate on the critical edition of selected sections of the Nageshabhatta’s commentaries on the Kuvalayānanda. Dominic Goodall is visiting the Shree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, to deliver the keynote address on February 13 at the Three-day International Conference on Mahābhārata in Literature and Tradition organized by the Department of Sanskrit Sahitya from February 13 to 15. Dominic Goodall and S.A.S. Sarma then travel to Coimbatore to lead a three-day workshop on text criticism applied to Sanskrit texts (February 14-16) at the Amrita Darshanam (International Centre for Spiritual Studies), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. R. Sathyanarayanan travels to Payyanur, Kerala, for a colloquium on Nāgeśa's contribution to Sanskrit literature, February 5-7 at the Payyanur Department of the Shree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit. He will give a presentation entitled "Nāgeśa's contribution to Tantra". |