UC Berkeley Events Calendar: Self, Sacrifice and Cosmos - Late Vedic Thought, Ritual, and Philosophy
UC Berkeley Events Calendar: Self, Sacrifice and Cosmos - Late Vedic Thought, Ritual, and Philosophy
<< Saturday, September 24, 2016 >>
The conference will focus on the intermediate texts of the Vedic corpus, the Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas that come between the Saṃhitās and the Upaniṣads. Papers will explore topics in religion, ritual, narrative, and philosophy.
Dr. Ganesh Umakant Thite is Professor Emeritus in Sanskrit at the University of Pune. He has published several books including Sacrifice in the Brāhmaṇa Texts (1975), Medicine: Its Magico-religious Aspects in the Vedic and Later Literature (1981), and Music in the Veda (1996) as well as more than two hundred and fifty papers. In addition to Vedic ritual, Dr. Thite drew attention to intellectual discussions and aspects of what he calls the “magico-religious” in Brāhmaṇa texts. As a result of his close attention to Vedic concepts, he has corrected misinterpreted English translations of numerous Vedic technical terms found not only in Vedic literature, but in other texts in which “Vedisms” are found.
AGENDA
8:30 Introductory Remarks
8:50 Lauren Bausch (Dharma Realm Buddhist University): On Being Firmly Established in the Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas
9:25 Caley Smith (Harvard University): A Vedic Mise En Abyme?
10:00 Joanna Jurewicz (University of Warsaw): The Consistency of Vedic Argument
10:35 Break
10:50 Stephanie Jamison (UCLA):Vedic Ritual - The Sacralization of the Mundane and the Domestication of the Sacred
11:25 Jan Houben (École Pratique des Hautes Études): Ecology of Ritual Innovation in Ancient India: Some textual evidence
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Joel Brereton (UT Austin): The Heavenly Sea in Early and Middle Vedic Literature
1:50 Jarrod Whitaker (Wake Forest University): Sexuality, Parentage, and Violence in Early Vedic Poetry
2:25 Break
2:40 Steven Lindquist (Southern Methodist University): Varṇa in Late Vedic Narrative
3:15 Robert Goldman (UC Berkeley): Creating Context - Ādiśaṅkarācārya’s Explication of Some Ākhyāyikā-s of the Chāndogyopaniṣad
3:50 Break
KEYNOTE
4:00 Ganesh U. Thite (University of Pune): The Role of Brāhmaṇa Texts in the Development of Vedic Ritual
The conference is free and open to the public.
<< Saturday, September 24, 2016 >>
The conference will focus on the intermediate texts of the Vedic corpus, the Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas that come between the Saṃhitās and the Upaniṣads. Papers will explore topics in religion, ritual, narrative, and philosophy.
Dr. Ganesh Umakant Thite is Professor Emeritus in Sanskrit at the University of Pune. He has published several books including Sacrifice in the Brāhmaṇa Texts (1975), Medicine: Its Magico-religious Aspects in the Vedic and Later Literature (1981), and Music in the Veda (1996) as well as more than two hundred and fifty papers. In addition to Vedic ritual, Dr. Thite drew attention to intellectual discussions and aspects of what he calls the “magico-religious” in Brāhmaṇa texts. As a result of his close attention to Vedic concepts, he has corrected misinterpreted English translations of numerous Vedic technical terms found not only in Vedic literature, but in other texts in which “Vedisms” are found.
AGENDA
8:30 Introductory Remarks
8:50 Lauren Bausch (Dharma Realm Buddhist University): On Being Firmly Established in the Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas
9:25 Caley Smith (Harvard University): A Vedic Mise En Abyme?
10:00 Joanna Jurewicz (University of Warsaw): The Consistency of Vedic Argument
10:35 Break
10:50 Stephanie Jamison (UCLA):Vedic Ritual - The Sacralization of the Mundane and the Domestication of the Sacred
11:25 Jan Houben (École Pratique des Hautes Études): Ecology of Ritual Innovation in Ancient India: Some textual evidence
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Joel Brereton (UT Austin): The Heavenly Sea in Early and Middle Vedic Literature
1:50 Jarrod Whitaker (Wake Forest University): Sexuality, Parentage, and Violence in Early Vedic Poetry
2:25 Break
2:40 Steven Lindquist (Southern Methodist University): Varṇa in Late Vedic Narrative
3:15 Robert Goldman (UC Berkeley): Creating Context - Ādiśaṅkarācārya’s Explication of Some Ākhyāyikā-s of the Chāndogyopaniṣad
3:50 Break
KEYNOTE
4:00 Ganesh U. Thite (University of Pune): The Role of Brāhmaṇa Texts in the Development of Vedic Ritual
The conference is free and open to the public.