MODE OF OPERATION
SECTIONS AND CONVENERS
The fifteen subject sections, along with the names of their conveners and provisional information about the thematic panels, are indicated below.
Keynote Speeches:
Romila Thapar (Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Masaaki Hattori (Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University)
- Veda – Masato Fujii, Arlo Griffiths
(One or two thematic panels on the Paippalāda, Jaiminīya and Vādhula texts and traditions are being planned by the conveners and Yasuke Ikari.) - Linguistics – Jared S. Klein, Kazuhiko Yoshida
- Epics and Purāṇas – James L. Fitzgerald, Christopher Minkowski, Yuko Yokochi (Two thematic panels are being planned.)
- Āgamas and Tantras – Shingo Einoo, Dominic Goodall
Thematic panel: Relations between Buddhist and Śaiva Tantra (organisedby Dominic Goodall and Shingo Einoo) - Vyākaraṇa – George Cardona, Ashok Aklujkar, Hideyo Ogawa
- Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics – Gary A. Tubb, Yigal Bronner
- Sanskrit and Regional Languages and Literatures – Takanobu Takahashi, Yoshifumi Mizuno
- Scientific Literature – Dominik Wujastyk, Michio Yano
Thematic panel: Physicians and Patients: Textual and Visual Representations in Pre-Modern South Asia (organised by Karin Preisendanz) - Buddhist Studies – Akira Saito, Helmut Krasser, Kazunobu Matsuda
Thematic panel: Scriptural Authority and Apologetics in the Indian Religio-Philosophical Environment (organised by Vincent Eltschinger and Helmut Krasser) - Jaina Studies – Shin Fujinaga, Nalini Balbir, Fumio Enomoto, Peter Flügel
- Philosophy – Shoryu Katsura, Mark Siderits, Kiyotaka Yoshimizu
Thematic panel: On the Historiography and Periodization of Indian Philosophy (organised by Eli Franco)
Thematic panel: Yoga in Philosophical and Narrative Literature (organised by Stuart Ray Sarbacker) - History of Religion – Noel Sheth, Muneo Tokunaga
(Diachronic study e.g., tracing the history of yoga or bhakti, or synchronic interrelationship between religions e.g., between Hinduism and Buddhism, based on Sanskrit and/or Prakrit texts)
Thematic panel: Hermeneutical Principles and Techniques as Found in Sanskrit and Prakrit Religious Texts (organised by Noel Sheth and Muneo Tokunaga) - Ritual Studies – Yasuke Ikari, Shingo Einoo
- History, Epigraphy, and Art History – Hans Bakker, Diwakar Acharya, Keiji Sadakane
- Law and Society – Patrick Olivelle, Don Davis
In addition,
Panditapariṣad, organised by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
Kavisaṃmelana, presided over by Radhavallabh Tripathi
Thematic panel: Manuscripts: fieldwork, conservation, digitization (organised by Saraju Rath and Kenneth G. Zysk)