Programme of the International conference on Classical Indology
October, 28, 2015
10.00 – 11.00.
The opening ceremony at the Hall of the University Council (the 6th floor).
Speakers:
Professor E.I. Pivovar, Rector of RSUH;
His Excellency P.S. Raghavan, Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation;
Professor R.C. Bharadwaj, the Indian coordinator of the conference;
Dr. S.D.Serebriany, the Russian coordinator of the conference.
11.00 – 12.00.
The events of the “Days of South Asia” at RSUH.
The inaugurations of the “BRICS study room” (block 5, room 1116a) and
“M.K. Gandhi – Jawaharlal Nehru study room (block 3, room 406)
12.00 – 18.00. The First Day of the Conference – at the Hall of the University Council (the 6th floor).
12.00 – 13.00. Session I.
12.00 - 12.30. Ramesh Bharadwaj (New Delhi). The Chronology of the Avestā: A Reassessment.
12.30 - 13.00. Gaya Charan Tripathi (New Delhi). Chronology of the Vedic literature. A plea to re-look at the date of the Rigveda
13.00 – 13.45. Lunch Break
13.45 – 18.00. Session II.
13.45 - 14.10. Aleh Perzashkevich (Minsk). The historicity of the Rigvedic society (localising in time with the help of dynastic clues).
14.10 - 14.30. Sergey Kullanda (Moscow). Vedic sāṁtapanā́ and its implications for cultural history.
14.30 - 15.00. Shree Kishore Mishra (Varanasi). Religious and philosophical thoughts of the Atharvaveda.
15.00 - 15.20. Ganesh Umakant Thite (Pune). Contribution of Russian scholars to Vedic studies.
15.20 - 15.40. B.R. Mani (New Delhi). Recent Investigations in Kushan Archaeology in India.
15.40 - 16.10. Alexei Vigasin (Moscow). South India in Greek and Latin Sources: Some Interpretations.
16.10 - 16.30. Valery Androsov (Moscow). The Guhyasamāja-tantra: the problems of its origin and its date.
16.30 - 17.00. Ramesh Chand Sharma (New Delhi). Russian Tradition of India-centric Linguistic Research and the Emerging Dimensions
17.30 - 18.00. Boris Zakharyin (Moscow). On fantasies concerning Pāṇini’s name as well as the first and last sūtras of the “Aṣṭādhyāyī”
October, 29, 2015
10.00 – 18.00
The Second Day of the Conference – at Room 374 (the 3rd floor)
10.00 – 13.00. Session III.
10.00 – 10.20. Victoria Lysenko (Moscow). Buddhist atomism in comparative perspective.
10.20 – 10.40. Natalya Kanaeva (Moscow). Hetu-vidyā and pramāṇa-vāda: a survey of Russian studies in Indian Buddhist logic and epistemology.
10.40 – 11.00. Ekaterina Kudryavtseva (St.Petersburg). Images of women in early Buddhist poetry (the “Therīgāthā”)
11.00 -11.20. Maxim Rusanov (Moscow). Stories of draftsmanship in ancient Indian literature.
[Coffee break]
12.00 – 12.30. Anna Neuwirt (St.Petersburg). The “Kāṭamarāju-katha(lu)” (“Yādava-Bhāratamu”): a Dravidian (Telugu) epic and its ideology.
12.40 - 13.00. Zaure Iskakova (Almaty, Kazakhstan). Mīrzā Muhammad Haidar Dughlat (1499/1500–1551) and his “Tārīkh-i-Rashīdī”.
13.00 – 14.00. Lunch Break
14.00 – 18.00. Session IV.
14.00 – 14.20. Muzaffar Olimov (Dushambe). “Abu-l-Fazl and Badāʾūnī: opponents or allies?”
14.20 – 14.40. Liudmila Khokhlova (Moscow). The concepts of posthumous existence and liberation in the Sikh canon «Ādi-granth».
14.40 – 15.10. Anastasia Guria (Moscow). A Meeting of Two Literary Canons : “Vikram and the Vampire”, a Victorian Rendering of the “Vetālapañcaviṃśati”.
15.10 – 15.30. Kseniya Maretina (St.Petersburg). The “Mahābhārata” in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture.
[Coffee break]
15.30 – 15.50. Nurgazy Kemelbaev (Bishkek)/ Translating the “Mahābhārata” into Kyrgyz.
15.50 – 16.10. Anna Chelnokova (St. Petersburg)/ A classical plot in modern literature: Vālmīki's «Rāmāyaṇa» in Hindi tradition.
16.10 – 16.30. Guzel Strelkova (Moscow)/ Bāṇabhaṭṭa's “Kādambarī” and its interpretation in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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