9:00 Welcome
9:15 Jason Neelis (Wilfrid Laurier University): Names on Rocks, Stories in Texts and Images, and Places in Macrohistorical Contexts
9:45 Amber Moore (University of Toronto): The Generous Prince and Padmāvatī's Gift: The Female Gaze and a Lesser Known Version of the Maṇicūḍāvadāna.
10:15 Neil Dalal (University of Alberta): Svarūpa-ānanda: Constructing an Advaita Vedāntin Argument for Intrinsic Wholeness
10:45 coffee break
11:15 Chris Framarin (University of Calgary): Morality and Prudence in the Early Debates of the Śāntiparvan
11:45 Deepro Chakraborty (University of Alberta): An Historical Account of the Kātantra Texts in Kashmir
12:15 Timothy Lorndale (independent scholar): Arjuna’s Other Queen: Pampa’s Vikramārjunavijaya and the Elevation of Subhadrā
12:45 lunch break
2:15 Julie Vig (York University): The Play of the Guru: Braj Historical Poetry in Early Modern Punjab
2:45 Dagmar Wujastyk (University of Alberta): Marginal or Mainstream? Reflections on Indian alchemical traditions
3:15 Janet Um (University of British Columbia): The Avantisundarī and the Question of Genre
3:45 coffee break
4:15 Bill Mak (University of Toronto/ University of Science and Technology of China): Nakṣatra rituals in late Vedic India
4:45 Keynote - Yigal Bronner (University of Alberta): On Alaṅkāras: Reconsidering Ornaments In Indic Literary Theory and Beyond
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Dominik Wujastyk (University of Alberta): Recovering an ancient Sanskrit medical classic: The Suśruta Project
9:45 Antoine Panaïoti (Toronto Metropolitan University): Of the 'six- stepped discussion' in Nāgārjuna and Pakṣilasvāmin Vātsyāyana
10:15 Libbie Mills (University of Toronto): Cross-Field Collaboration
10:45 coffee break
11:15 Raj Balkaran (independent scholar): Voicing the Goddess: Translating the Devī Māhātmya for English Utterance
11:45 Alessandro Graheli (University of Toronto): Mukula and Jayanta on Compositionality
12:15 Shubham Arora (University of British Columbia): Harihara’s Śṛṅgāradīpikā: A “new” Sanskrit treatise on erotics
12:45 lunch break
2:15 Elisa Freschi (University of Toronto): Kumārila's contribution: Philosopher or Ritualist?
2:45 Christopher R. Austin (Dalhousie University): The Tārakāmaya Wars in the Harivaṃśa and Mahābhārata
3:15 Tulika Singh (University of Alberta): Kuṣṭha as an inauspicious disorder in the Suśrutasaṃhitā
3:45 coffee break
4:15 Adheesh Sathaye (University of British Columbia): Getting the Vetala Off My Back: Notes on a Forthcoming Edition and Translation of Shivadasa’s Vetālapañcaviṃśati
4:45 Sudha Berry (independent scholar): Krauñca – Birds and Mountain
5:15 Elizabeth M. Rohlman, (University of Calgary): Locating the Urban within Sanskritic Literatures: Or, can classical and medieval Indian cities be relevant in a post colonial world?
5:45 Arti Dhand (University of Toronto): New God, Old Shoes – Kṛṣṇa in the Udyogaparva of the Mahābhārata