Indological Connections between Paris and Chicago

Organisation
Whitney Cox (University of Chicago)
Isabelle Ratié (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

9h25-9h30 – Welcome address

Panel 1: Histories

9h30-10h15

• Whitney COX (University of Chicago)
  Three ways to read Coḻa inscriptions: apropos of the succession crisis of 1070-74

10h15-11h

• Emmanuel FRANCIS (CNRS – CEIAS)
  Praśasti to Meykkīrtti: Royal Eulogy in Ancient Tamil Nadu

11h00-11h15 – Coffee break

11h15-12h

• Arlo GRIFFITHS (EFEO)
  Towards the publication of a corpus of the Pyu inscriptions of ancient Burma and the decipherment of the Pyu language (Tibeto-Burman)

Panel 2: Speculative Thought

12h00-12h45

• Gary TUBB (University of Chicago)
  Revisiting the dream metaphor in early Vedānta

Lunch break

14h15-15h

• Isabelle RATIÉ (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)
  In search of Utpaladeva’s lost Īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛti: an account of the latest discoveries

Panel 3: Textual cultures

15h-15h45

• Jérôme PETIT (BNF)
  For a history of the catalogues of Indian manuscripts in Paris

15h45-16h – Coffee break

16h-16h45

• Nalini BALBIR (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)
  The Paris Jain manuscripts in context: collectors and collections

16h45-17h30

• Thibaut D’HUBERT (University of Chicago)
  The Jesuits and the Interpreter: Studying languages in 18th-century Bengal

17h30-18h – Final discussion