# Full Conference Schedule ## Thursday, 3 July 2025 #### 8:30-9:00 (AEST) - Conference Registration & Opening - **[Acknowledgement of Country](https://services.anu.edu.au/files/guidance/Welcome-to-and-Acknowledgement-of-Country.pdf)** ([हिन्दी में](https://www.sbs.com.au/language/hindi/hi/article/acknowledgment-of-country-in-hindi/suqv093ut) | [اردو میں](https://www.sbs.com.au/language/urdu/ur/article/acknowledgement-of-country-in-urdu/66oz37mcr) | [বাংলায়](https://www.sbs.com.au/language/bangla/bn/article/acknowledgment-of-country-in-bangla/s00hf8vyi) | [ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ](https://www.sbs.com.au/language/punjabi/pa/article/acknowledgment-of-country-in-punjabi/vkl9dnaj0)) - **Welcome to ANU** by [Prof. Matt Tomlinson](https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/matt-tomlinson) *(Director of the School of Culture, History and Language)* - **Opening Remarks by Conference Organisers** #### 9:00-10:30 (AEST) - **[[Session 1. Networks & Canonisation]]** **Chair:** [[Anne Murphy]] **Presenters:** - **[[Manpreet Kaur]]** (Columbia University) *online* - [[Farid, regendered - a circulation history of Baba Farid in nirgun bhakti environs]] - **[[Nancy M. Martin]]** (Chapman University) *online* - [[Bhakti Voices - From Song to Text in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century North India]] - **[[Tyler W. Williams]]** (University of Chicago) *online* - [[Merchant Networks and Sensibilities in the Caurāsī Vaiṣṇavan Kī Vārtā]] #### 10:30-11:00 (AEST) - Morning Tea #### 9:00-10:30 (AEST) - **[[Session 2. Translating Metre & the Mind]]** **Chair:** [[John E. Cort]] **Presenters:** - **[[Hiroko Nagasaki]]** (University of Osaka) *in-person* - [[The Schools of Hindi Prosody]] - **[[Ryūtarō TAKEZAKI]]** (University of Tokyo) *in-person* - [[Dohās in the Rāmacaritamānasa]] - **[[Akshara Ravishankar]]** (Ghent University) *in-person* - [[The Text, Alone - Śrīdhara Svāmī's Subodhinī in Eighteenth Century North India]] #### 12:30-1:30 (AEST) - Lunch Break #### 1:30-3:00 (AEST) - [[Session 3. Punjabi Textual & Performative Networks]] **Chair:** [[Peter Friedlander]] **Presenters:** - **[[Anne Murphy]]** & **[[Tohid Ahmad Chattha]]** (University of British Columbia/Government College University-Faisalabad) - *online joint presentation* - [[Hīr Wāris Shāh across manuscripts]] - **[[Maria Puri]]** (independent researcher) *online* - [[A Guidebook to Ultimate Reality - Prabodh Chandra Natak in Sikh textual tradition]] - **[[Marged Flavia Trumper]]** (University of Bologna) *online* - [[Voices of Tradition - the role of women Performers of Benares in the Evolution of Shori Mian's Ṭappā]] #### 3:00-3:30 (AEST) - Afternoon Tea #### 3:30-5:00 (AEST) - [[Session 4. Jain Multilingualism]] **Chair:** [[Jean Arzoumanov]] **Presenters:** - **[[John E. Cort]]** (Denison University) *in-person* - [[The Jaipur Jain Translation Workshop]] - **[[Imre Bangha]]** (University of Oxford) *online* - [[Between Apabhramsha and Classical Hindi - Two fourteenth-century Jain vernacular narratives from the Hindi Belt]] - **[[Tine Van Overberghe]]** (University of Lausanne) *online* - [[Mothers of Knowledge - Devotion and Literary Patronage in the Bhārat Bhāṣā]] #### 5:00-5:30pm - [[Odissi Performance]] by [[Vishnupriya Goswami]] #### Evening Free for participants to meet up at their venues of choice across Canberra. A few suggestions can be found **[[Local Information|here]]**. ## Friday, 4 July 2025 #### 9:00-10:30 (AEST) - **[[Session 5. Devotional Repertoires]]** **Chair:** [[Hiroko Nagasaki]] **Presenters:** - **[[Vishnupriya Goswami]]** (University of Washington) *in-person* - [[Mudariyā corī līlā - The literary and performative tapestry of Chadmalīlā]] - **[[Jean Arzoumanov]]** (University of Chicago) *in-person* - [[Multilingual Bhaktamals - Lal Ji Das' lives of illustrious devotees in Persian and Hindavi (c. 1750)]] - **[[Peter Friedlander]]** (Australian National University) *in-person* - [[Raidas' songs and the evolution of their repertoires]] #### 10:30-11:00 (AEST) - Morning Tea #### 11:00-12:30 (AEST) - **[[Session 6. Lyrical & Dramatic Circulation]]** **Chair:** TBC **Presenters:** - **[[Anjali Yadav]]** (University of Washington) *in-person* - [[Secular Literature of a Devotional Queen - Brajdāsī’s Collection of Khayāl from Eighteenth Century Kishangarh]] - **[[Mercy Dutta]]** (University of Chicago) *in-person* - [[Karāvata nāṭa ohi bahu chande - Investigating the Literary World of Brajāwalī _Aṅkiẏā_ Plays through Śankaradeva's Pārijātatharaṇa]] - **[[Christopher L. Diamond]]** (Australian National University) *in-person* - [[Sonic Cartographies - Locana Dās' Rāgataraṅgiṇī and the Construction of Maithili Literary Identity]] #### 12:30-1:30 (AEST) - Lunch Break #### 1:30-3:00 - **[[Session 7. Narratives of Devotion & Philosophy]]** **Chair**: [[Akshara Ravishankar]] **Presenters:** - **[[Rabi Prakash]]** (Thapar School of Liberal Arts (TIET), Patiala) *online* - [[Advait Vedanta and its Receptions at Vernacular Polity - Reading Akshar Ananya's Vedantic Writings]] - **[[Galina Rousseva-Sokolova]]** (Jindal Global University) *online* - [[Difficult Bhakti - some challenging Cases of Sainthood in the Do sau bāvan vaiṣṇavan kī vārtā]] - **[[Danuta Stasik]]** (University of Warsaw) *online* - [[The Narrative of Crow Bhuśuṇḍi through the Lens of the Structural Framework of the 'Rāmcaritmānas']] #### 3:00-3:30 (AEST) - Afternoon Tea #### 3:30-5:00 (AEST) - **[[Session 8. Legitimising Texts in the Rajput Sphere]]** **Chair:** [[Stefania Cavaliere]] **Presenters:** - **[[Arjun Bhattacharya]]** (University of Chicago) *online* - [[In praise of fatal kingship - Reading death and defeat in the Kanhaḍade Prabandha]] - **[[Aditi Jain]]** (University of Texas at Austin) *online* - [[Understanding Rajput Kingship in Brajbhasha Caritkavya - Vir Singh Deo and Jahangir's Sulh-i-Kull (c.1600-1630)]] - **[[Biljana Zrnić]]** (Ghent University) *online* - [[A comparative study of the Sarbaṅgī of Rajab, the Sarbaṅgī of Gopāldās, and the Guṇagañjanāmā]] #### Evening - [[Conference Dinner]] (*conference registration & RSVP required) ## Saturday, 5 July 2025 #### 9:00-12:00 - Morning Outing to the [National Gallery of Australia ](https://nga.gov.au/) #### 12:30-1:30 (AEST) - Lunch Break #### 1:30-3:00 (AEST) - [[Session 9. Space, Place, & Devotion]] **Chair:** [[Ryūtarō TAKEZAKI]] **Presenters:** - **[[Sneh Kumar Jha]]** (Jawaharlal Nehru University) *online* - [[City in Literature - Urban Imaginaries in Vidyapati's Puruṣaparīkṣā]] - **[[Ritu Jangid]]** (Central University of Gujarat) *online* - [[Bhakti and Shakti - Tracing the Influence of Devotional Currents on Gujarat's Charani Performance Traditions]] - **[[Ravi Kumar]]** (Jawaharlal Nehru University) *online* - [[Local Cults and the Emergence of Krishna Bhakti - A Case Study of the Srinathji Temple of the Pushtimarg Sect in the Braj Region]] #### 3:00-3:30 (AEST) - Afternoon Tea #### 3:30-5:00 (AEST) - **[[Session 10. Linguistic & Aesthetic Interactions]]** **Chair:** [[Christopher L. Diamond]] **Presenters:** - **[[Stefania Cavaliere]]** (University of Naples L'Orientale) *online* - [[Rasa and alaṃkāra at the interplay with bhakti - Explorations for a new aesthetics in the vernacular]] - **[[Kartik Maini]]** (University of Chicago) *online* - [[A Moonshine of Praise - Multilingualism and the Public in Mughal Banaras]] - **[[Ravi Prakash]]** (University of Chicago) *in-person* - [[Reorienting Rīti - Bihārī as a Persianate Poet]] #### 5:00-6:00 (AEST) - [[Planning Meeting]] - Discussion of future conference venues - Formation of working groups - Planning for publications from conference papers ## Sunday, 6 July 2025 #### 9:00-3:00 (AEST) - Full Day Outing to [Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve ](https://www.tidbinbilla.act.gov.au/)