| Dates: | July 6th, 7th ,8th 2016 | ||||
| Address: | Venue: IIT Madras | ||||
| IC&SR, Near Gajendra Circle, Opposite to Admin Building, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036. | |||||
| 1st Swadeshi Indology Conference – Critiquing Neo-Orientalism | |||||
| Day 1 | 6-Jul-16 | 7:00-8:30 | Breakfast | ||
| Session 1 (9:00 AM – 10:45 AM) | 8:55-9:00 | Call to assemble, announcements etc | MC | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Inauguration | Lighting lamp, Invocation, inviting speakers on stage, presentation of gifts | |||
| 9:30-10:00 | Welcome speech | Prof. Kannan | |||
| 10:00-10:45 | Keynote address | Shri. Rajiv Malhotra | |||
| 10:45-10:55 | Tea Break | ||||
| 10:55-11:00 | Call to assemble, announcements etc | ||||
| Session 2 (11:00 AM – 12:15 PM) | 11:00-11:45 | Inaugural lecture | Prof. V N Jha | ||
| 11:45-12:00 | Vote of thanks | Prof. Devendra Jalihal | |||
| 12:00-12:15 | Buffer and Announcements (if reqd) | ||||
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch | ||||
| 1:45-2:00 | Buffer and time for settling in | ||||
| 1:55-2:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | |||
| Session 3 on the position that Sanskrit is dead (2:00 PM – 3:45 PM) | Paper Name | Chair: Shri. Rajiv Malhotra | |||
| 2:00-2:30 | 1 | Pollock’s paper on the Death of Sanskrit | Manogna Sastry | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | 2 | Sanskrit: The Phoenix Phenomenon | Kannan and Meera | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | 3 | Essentially Unchanged – Orientalist and Post-Colonial Basis of Indology | Ravi Joshi (via skype) | ||
| 3:30-3:45 | Chair closing comments | ||||
| 3.45-3:55 | Tea break | ||||
| 3:55-4:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | |||
| Session 4 on the topic of his positions on Shastra (4:00 PM – 5:45 PM) | Paper Name | Chair: Prof. Ramanujan | |||
| 4:00-4:30 | 4 | Pollock’s views on Indological Sastras | Sundari Siddhartha | ||
| 4:30-5:00 | 5 | Sastra: an impediment to progress | Rajath V | ||
| 5:00-5:30 | 6 | The Science and Nescience of Sastra | Sudarshan Therani | ||
| 5:30-5:45 | Chair closing comments | ||||
| 5:45 | End of day | ||||
| Day 2 | 7-Jul-16 | 7.00-8:30 | Breakfast | ||
| Session 5 on the topic of his positions on Shastra (9:00 AM – 10:45 AM) | 8:55-9:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | ||
| Paper Name | Chair: Prof. V N Jha | ||||
| 9:00-9:30 | 7 | Did Indian Intellectual tradition hold that all knowledge of practice is contained in Sastras? A Critique of Pollock’s 1985 Sastras Paper | Surya K (via skype) | ||
| 9:30-10:00 | 8 | Sheldon Pollock on Sastra | Vrinda Acharya | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | 9 | Understanding structure of arguments and errors in Sheldon Pollock’s Śāstra paper(1985) | Vikas Veshishth | ||
| 10:30-10:45 | Chair closing comments | ||||
| 10.45-10:55 | Tea break | ||||
| 10:55-11:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | |||
| Session 6 on the topic that Ramayana was used as a political tool (11:00 AM – 12:45 PM) | Paper Name | Chair: Shri. Nityananda Misra | |||
| 11:00-11:30 | 10 | Ramayana Volume 2: Introduction to Ayodhyakanda-Sheldon Pollock | Manjushree Hegde | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | 11 | Sanskriti in Context: Critiquing Pollock’s out of context reading of the Ramayana | Charu Uppal | ||
| 12:00-12.30 | 12 | Sense Philology | T M Narendran | ||
| 12:30-12:45 | Chair closing comments | ||||
| 12:45-1:45 | Lunch | ||||
| 1:45-2:00 | Buffer time for settling in | ||||
| 1:55-2:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | |||
| Session 7 on the position that Sanskrit was responsible for the holocaust (2:00 PM – 3:45 PM) | Paper Name | Chair: Prof. Makarand Paranjape | |||
| 2:00-2:30 | 13 | A Purvapaksha of Deep Orientalism | Ashay Naik | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | 14 | Indology and Nazi ideology | K Gopinath | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | 15 | Sheldon Pollock’s idea of a Nazi Indology | Koenraad Elst | ||
| 3:30-3:45 | Chair closing comments | ||||
| 3:45-3:55 | Tea break | ||||
| 3:55-4:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | |||
| Session 8 on some Indic viewpoints that can used to refute Pollock’s positions (4:00 PM – 5:15 PM) | Paper Name | Chair: Prof. K S Kannan | |||
| 4:00-4:30 | 16 | From Hitler to Hinduphobia: On Sheldon Pollock’s View of Hinduism as an Early Variant of Nazism | Vishal Agarwal (via skype) | ||
| 4:30-5:00 | 17 | On Pollockism | Sati Shankar | ||
| 5:00-5:15 | Chair closing comments | ||||
| 5:15-6:30 | Panel discussion from IIT on Sanskrit-Tamil synergies | Dr. Sudha Seshayyan, Dr. M.A Venkatakrishnan, Embar R. Kasturi | |||
| 6:30-7:00 | Free | ||||
| 7:00-9:00 | Dinner | ||||
| Day 3 | 8-Jul-16 | 7:00-8:30 | Breakfast | ||
| Session 9 on some Indic viewpoints that can be used to refute Pollock’s positions (9:00 AM – 10:15 AM) | 8:55-9:00 | Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc | MC | ||
| Paper Name | Chair: Dr. Koenraad Elst | ||||
| 9:00-9:30 | 18 | Sanskrit is dead, and that’s ok | Naresh Cuntoor (via skype) | ||
| 9:30-10:00 | 19 | ‘South Asian Knowledge’, Modern Science and Pollockian Indology | Ravi Gomatam (via skype) | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | Closing comments | ||||
| 10:15-10:25 | Tea break | ||||
| 10:25-10:30 | Bringing to order, calling panelists onto dais etc | ||||
| Session 10 (10:30 AM – 12:45 PM) | 10:30-11:55 | Panel discussion on MCLI | Dignitaries | ||
| 11:55-12:00 | Buffer, settling down | ||||
| 12:00-1:00 | Valedictory address | Paranjape | |||
| 1:00-1:45 | Lunch | ||||
| 1:45-2:00 | Buffer time for settling in | ||||
| 1:55-2:00 | Calling to order, announcement of forthcoming program etc | MC | |||
| Session 11 (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM) | 2:00-2:45 | Feedback from participants | MC with help from volunteer | ||
| 2.45-3:30 | Feedback from invited scholars who are potential participants for next conf | ~ 6 scholars | |||
| 3:30-3:40 | Tea break | ||||
| 3:40-3:45 | Settling down | MC | |||
| Session 12 (3:45 PM – 6:00 PM) | 3:45-4:15 | RM’s remarks on papers | Rajiv Malhotra | ||
| 4:15-5:30 | SI: Retrospect and Prospect | Discussion | |||
| 5:30-6:00 | Press meet | ||||
