Fate and Future in Indian Traditions
Convenor: Dr. Sven Sellmer
December 4-5, 2013
Location
Sitzungssaal, Alte Universitätsbibliothek 2. OG
Universitätsstr. 4,
91054 Erlangen
Registration
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The upcoming workshop is a follow-up to a meeting in February 2012 that dealt with questions related to fate, destiny, divine intervention and similar concepts in different Indian traditions. The leading idea is to bring together material from diverse sources and historical epochs that may serve as a starting point for both creating a larger picture and making connections with non-Indian conceptions. This time, both advanced papers that resulted from the previous workshop and fresh ones from new participants will be presented and extensively discussed in preparation for a publication.
Programme
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
| 09:00 a.m. | Welcome Address Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich (IKGF Deputy Director), Dr. Sven Sellmer (Univ. Poznań, Former IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 09:10 a.m. | A Hierarchy of Competing Causalities in the
Jantūpākhyāna of the
Mahābhārata
(MBh 3.127f.) Read Abstract here... Dr. Philipp Maas (Univ. Wien) |
| 10:00 a.m. | Kāla as Fate Deity in the Mokṣadharma-parvan Read Abstract here... Dr. Ivan Andrijanić (Univ. Zagreb) |
| 10:50 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 a.m. | Freedom and Predestination of Devotion. Rūpa Gosvāmin’s System of Bhaktirasa Read Abstract here... Dr. Alessandro Graheli (Univ. Wien) |
| 12:10 p.m. | Questioning the Gods: the Practices of Provoked Oracular Possession in the Vidyāpīṭha Tantras Read Abstract here... Dr. Olga Serbaeva (Univ. of Zurich) |
| 1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | Houses and Horoscopes: Contemporary Uses of Astrology and Vāstuśāstra in Urban India Read Abstract here... Dr. Caterina Guenzi (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) |
| 3:50 p.m. | Fate, Freedom and Prognostication in the Context of Giving, Gifts and Their Exchanges in Indian Society Read Abstract here... Dr. Marcus Schmücker (ÖAW Wien) |
| 4:40 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 5:10 p.m. | Fate in India. An Exploration of a Conceptual Field Read Abstract here... Dr. Sven Sellmer (Univ. Poznań, Former IKGF Visiting Fellow) |
| 6:00 p.m. | End |
Thursday, December 5, 2013
| 9:30 a.m. | Closing Discussion |
| 11:30 p.m. | End |