Sunday, May 27, 2018


ॐ ह्रीं श्रीपार्श्वनाथाय नमः
Auṃ Hrīṃ ŚrīPārśvanāthāya Namaḥ
Jay Jinendra

The 17th World Sanskrit Conference

July 9-13, 2018 • The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada • wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca

FIRST CIRCULAR

http://www.navelgazing.net/2016/11/the-17th-world-sanskrit-conference-july.html

We are very pleased to announce that, as agreed by the International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference (Bangkok, Thailand, 2015), the 17th World Sanskrit Conference will be held in Vancouver, Canada from July 9 to July 13, 2018.

The World Sanskrit Conference is the premier international forum for professional researchers and educators of the Sanskrit language and its literatures, and of the history, religion, and cultures of premodern South Asia. This will mark the first time that this prestigious triennial event is held in Canada. WSC 2018 is proudly hosted by the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, and it is our pleasure to welcome you to the beautiful, vibrant, and travel-friendly city of Vancouver, which is consistently rated as a top tourist destination in North America and one of the world’s most liveable cities.

This first circular aims to provide preliminary information, important dates and deadlines, and an overview of the format and procedures for the 17th World Sanskrit Conference.

Committee Members/Secretariat:
Adheesh Sathaye (Chair)
Ashok Aklujkar
Vidyut Aklujkar
Timothy Bellefleur
Mandakranta Bose
Thomas Hunter
Dominik Wujastyk

International Members:
V. Kutumba Shastry (President, IASS)
Ram Karan Sharma (Past President, IASS)
John Brockington (Honorary Vice President, IASS)
Jayandra Soni (Secretary General, IASS)
Georges Pinault (Treasurer, IASS)

Postal Address
Dr Adheesh Sathaye
Department of Asian Studies, UBC
607-1871 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2 Canada

Email

Telephone
+1 604 822 0019

Website

WEBSITE and LATEST INFORMATION
For up-to-date information and all important announcements, please visit http://wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca, where you can also join the official WSC 2018 Announcements email list in order to receive regular future electronic communications from the WSC Secretariat.

Conference registration, paper submissions, accommodation booking, and payment of fees and dues will all be done through this website portal.

VENUE and MODE of OPERATION at WSC 2018
WSC 2018 will be held on the main campus of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The conference will feature 21 regular thematic sections, as stipulated by the IASS. For each section, a set of invited convenors, specialists in the respective fields, will assist in maintaining a high scholarly standard for the conference by:
(a) selecting individual papers for presentation at WSC 2018,
(b) organizing special featured panels within each section, and
(c) nominating session chairs who will oversee a strict adherence to timings and professional decorum during the paper sessions.

The convenors will also be in charge of selecting and editing papers for publication in the proceedings, details of which will be announced in future communications.

DATES and DEADLINES
Here are the important dates and deadlines that you should keep in mind when planning for
the World Sanskrit Conference. Please note, these dates are tentative, and may be subject to
change. For the latest information, please visit our website, wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca.

  • May 15, 2017 Deadline for SPECIAL PANEL proposals
  • July 15, 2017 Notification of accepted SPECIAL PANELS
  • September 18, 2017 Deadline for INDIVIDUAL PAPER abstracts
  • January 2, 2018 Notification of accepted INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
  • February 16, 2018 Early Registration Rate Ends
  • May 7, 2018 Deadline for REGISTRATION (for all presenters)

IMPORTANT
All participants who plan to present a paper must pay registration fees by the deadline of May 7, 2018, or their paper will be cancelled. On-site, last minute registration will be available only for non-presenting participants and guests.

CALL FOR PAPER and PANEL SUBMISSIONS
WSC 2018 will feature two types of sessions: individual paper sessions and special featured panels. Interested scholars are welcome to submit either an abstract for an individual paper, or to propose a special featured panel of three or four participants. Due to the restrictions of space and time, each scholar wishing to present his/her work at WSC 2018 may submit only one paper or panel proposal to one of the sections below. The submission process will take place entirely through the conference website at wsc.ubcsanskrit.ca, and further instructions on the submission procedures will be given in the coming months. The deadline for panel proposals is May 15, 2017, while the deadline for individual paper abstracts is September 18, 2017.

Each paper will be allotted a time of 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.

Papers may be delivered in English or French (the national languages of Canada), or in Sanskrit.

SECTIONS and CONVENORS
The 21 principal sections and their confirmed convenors, as of September 2016, are listed
below. Additional convenors are still to be confirmed, and as we do so, the list will be updated
on the official WSC website. Individual speakers and titles of papers accepted for presentation
at WSC 2018 will be announced through the conference website in early 2018.

1 Veda
Shrikant Bahulkar, Joanna Jurewicz

2 Linguistics
Madhav Deshpande, Jan Houben

3 Vyākaraṇa
Malhar Kulkarni

4 Epics
Arti Dhand, Robert Goldman, James Hegarty

5 Purāṇas
Elizabeth Rohlman, McComas Taylor

6 Āgama & Tantra
Diwakar Acharya, Michael Slouber, Judit Törzsök

7 Ritual Studies
Marko Geslani, Libbie Mills

8 Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics
Daniele Cuneo, C. Rajendran

9 Scientific Literature
Bill Mak, Dominik Wujastyk

10 Buddhist Studies
Mahesh & Lata Deokar, Jason Neelis

11 Jain Studies
Nalini Balbir, Eva de Clerq

12 Vaiṣṇavism and Śaivism
David Buchta, Elaine Fisher, Ajay Rao

13 Religious Studies
Christopher Austin, Travis Smith

14 Philosophy
Kengo Harimoto, Lawrence McCrea

15 History, Art & Architecture, Epigraphy
Arlo Griffiths, Anna Slaczka

16 Sanskrit & Regional Languages, (& Southeast Asia)
Andrea Acri, Whitney Cox

17 Sanskrit Pedagogy
Sadananda Das, Guy Leavitt

18 Modern Sanskrit Writings
Hari Dutt Sharma, Deven Patel

19 Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities
Gérard Huet, Amba Kulkarni

20 Manuscriptology
Nirmala Kulkarni, Saraju Rath

21 Law and Society
Donald Davis, Timothy Lubin

22 Yoga and Āyurveda
Dagmar Wujastyk

23 Sanskrit and the Panjab
Adheesh Sathaye

24 Sanskrit and Indo-Persian Culture
Anna Martin, Luther Obrock

For more information, please refer to


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