Themes and Special Panels

For each section, a set of invited convenors, specialists in the respective fields, will assist in maintaining a high scholarly standard for the conference. Convenors will select individual papers for presentation at WSC 2023 and nominate session chairs. The convenors will also be in charge of selecting and editing papers for publication in the proceedings.

Regular Sections (Themes)

Sections	Convenors
Veda, वेदः	Hans Hock (Chair): hhhock@illinois.edu Shrikant Bahulkar: shrikantbahulkar@gmail.com Joanna Jurewicz: j.jurewicz@uw.edu.pl Stephanie Majcher: stephanie.majcher@anu.edu.au
Linguistics, भाषाशास्त्रम्	Jan Houben (Chair): johannes.houben@ephe.psl.eu Brendan Gillon: brendan.gillon@mcgill.ca
Vyākaraṇa, व्याकरणम्	Malhar Kulkarni (Chair): malhar@hss.iitb.ac.in Saroja Bhate: bhatesaroja@gmail.com Dipti Tripathi: diptitripathi999@gmail.com
Epics, रामायणं महाभारतं च	Adam Bowles (Chair): a.bowles1@uq.edu.au Simon Brodbeck: brodbecksp@cardiff.ac.uk James Hegarty: hegartyj@cardiff.ac.uk Wendy Phillips-Rodriguez: wjp26@cantab.net
Purāṇas, पुराणानि	Raj Balkaran (Chair): raj.balkaran@gmail.com McComas Taylor: mccomas.taylor@anu.edu.au Satyanarayan Chakraborty: satyanarayan01@yahoo.co.in
Tantra Studies, आगमास्तन्त्रं च	Michael Slouber (Chair): michael.slouber@wwu.edu Mrinal Kaul: mrinal.kaul@stx.oxon.org Judit Törzsök: judit.torzsok@ephe.psl.eu
Ritual Studies, विध्यनुष्ठानविमर्शः	Libbie Mills (Chair): libbie.mills@utoronto.ca Finnian Gerety: finnian_moore-gerety@brown.edu Ute Huesken: huesken@uni-heidelberg.de
Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics, काव्यमलङ्कारश्च	Daniele Cuneo (Chair): danielecuneo@hotmail.com Elisa Ganser: elijanart@yahoo.it Shonaleeka Kaul: shonaleeka@gmail.com Hari Dutt Sharma: hari_sanskrit@rediffmail.com Rajendran, C: crajenin@yahoo.com
Scientific Literature, वैज्ञानिकं वाङ्मयम्	Clemency Montelle: clemency.montelle@canterbury.ac.nz Kim Plofker: plofkerk@union.edu Aditya Kolachana: aditya@iitm.ac.in
Buddhist Studies, बौद्धविद्या	Mark Allon (Chair): mark.allon@sydney.edu.au Lata Mahesh Deokar: hodpali@unipune.ac.in Mahesh Deokar: hodpali@unipune.ac.in Jason Neelis: jneelis@wlu.ca
Jaina Studies, जैनविद्या	Eva de Clercq (Chair): ev.declercq@ugent.be
Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism, वैष्णवमतं शैवमतं च	David Buchta (Chair): David_Buchta@brown.edu Christopher Austin: christopher.austin@dal.ca Elaine Fisher: emf@stanford.edu
Philosophy, दर्शनानि, तत्त्वशास्त्रम्	Kengo Harimoto (Chair): k.harimoto@gmail.com Purushottama Billimoria: pb1@unimelb.edu.au Somdev Vasudev: somapati@gmail.com Diwakar Acharya: diwakar.acharya@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
History, Art and Architecture, Epigraphy, डतिहासः कलाः स्थापत्यमभिलेखशास्त्रं	Annette Schmiedchen (Chair): annette.schmiedchen@asa.hu-berlin.de Mike Skinner: mcskin@u.washington.edu
Sanskrit and Regional Languages (including Southeast Asia), संस्कृतं प्रदेशभाषाश्च	Andrea Acri (Chair): andrea.acri@ephe.psl.eu
Sanskrit Pedagogy, संस्कृतशिक्षाशास्त्रम्	Sadananda Das (Chair): spokensanskrit@gmail.com Antonia Ruppel: antonia.ruppel@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
Modern Sanskrit Writings, आधुनिकं संस्कृतसाहित्यम्	Deven Patel (Chair): devenp@sas.upenn.edu Chandra Bhushan Jha: cbjha1@gmail.com Robert Zydenbos: zydenbos@uni-muenchen.de
Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities, संस्कृतं विज्ञानतान्त्रिकी च	Gérard Huet (Chair): gerard.huet@inria.fr Amba Kulkarni: ambapradeep@gmail.com
Manuscriptology, हस्तलेखविज्ञानम्	Nirmala Kulkarni (Chair): nirmalakulkarni@gmail.com Saraju Rath: sarajurath@yahoo.com
Law and Society, धर्मशास्त्रमर्थशास्त्रं च	Donald Davis (Chair): drdj@austin.utexas.edu Timothy Lubin: lubint@wlu.edu
Yoga and Āyurveda, योगायुवेदौ	Jason Birch (Chair): letusconnect@hotmail.com Philipp Maas: philipp.a.maas@gmail.com
Gender and Sanskrit Studies, संस्कृतं पुंस्त्वं स्त्रीत्वं च	Iris Iran Farkondeh: iran_farkhondeh@yahoo.fr Saran Suebsantiwongse: ss2380@cam.ac.uk

 

Special Panels

Section	Special Panel Title	Chair
Veda	Maitrāyaṇī Saṁhitā: its history, background and relation to the other Vedic texts	Kyoko Amano, Kyoto University
Veda	Yāska’s theology: classifying and defining deities in the Late Vedic Age	Yūto Kawamura, University of Oxford, and Paolo Visigalli, Shanghai Normal University
Linguistics	Uncovering Sanskrit syntax	John Lowe, University of Oxford
Epics	The Mahābhārata and later Pāñcarātra	Vishwa Adluri, Hunter College, City University of New York Adam Bowles, The University of Queensland
Epics	Cosmology, cosmography and time in the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas	Ruth Satinsky, University of Lausanne Adam Bowles, The University of Queensland
Philosophy	History of Mīmāṃsā formerly; Towards a history of the Mīmāṃsā system What kind of “Vedic exegesis” is Mīmāṃsā?	Elisa Freschi, Austrian Academy of Science Hugo David, École française d’Extrême-Orient
Philosophy	The Yuktidīpikā: forging a place for Sāṅkhya in Indian intellectual history	not proceeding for 2023
Philosophy	Historicising Mīmāṃsā commitments	Purushottama Bilimoria, University of Melbourne
Sanskrit and Regional Languages	Translation of Sanskrit literature into Thai: Reintroduction of Sanskrit studies to Thai society	not proceeding for 2023
Sanskrit and Regional Languages	New reflections on South and Southeast Asian Sanskrit epigraphy	Amarjiva Lochan, University of Delhi
Sanskrit and Regional Languages	Sanskrit and Indonesia	Robert Zydenbos, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München Andrea Acri, École française d’Extrême-Orient
Yoga and Āyurveda	Rājayoga, combining philological research with ethnography, modern history and political studies	not proceeding for 2023
Yoga and Āyurveda	Soma, recitation and yoga	not proceeding for 2023
Epics|Purāṇas	Visions and Revisions of Sanskrit Narrative: Introducing ‘Purāṇa Perennis 2.0’	Raj Balkaran, Independent Scholar
Computational Sanskrit and Digital Humanities	Digital Demonstration Special Panel	Dr Arjuna S R, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Bengaluru Dr Pavankumar Satuluri, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Ernakulam