This blog-post provides information on the lecture on the Śaiva kāvya tradition is South India, given in February 2020 during the Śivadharma Pondicherry Worshop.
This blog-post provides info on the "Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India" workshop, which took place in Pondicherry in February 2020 and was organized by Ute Hüsken and Jonas Buchholz, both of the University of Heidelberg, in the framework of their DFG-funded project “Temple Networks in Early Modern South India.”
On January 20th-24th, 2020, the workshop "Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India", organized by Ute Hüsken and Jonas Buchholz (Universität Heidelberg) will take place at the EFEO-Pondicherry centre, followed by a field trip to Kanchipuram on January 24th-26th. This workshop is organized in the frame of…
We are glad to present the programme of the second instalment of the Śivadharma Workshop, which will take place at our partner institution, the EFEO in Pondicherry (India), from January 27th to February 7th.
From left to right: Kristen de Joseph, Margherita Trento, Csaba Kiss, Florinda De Simini. Picture courtesy of: Kenji Takahashi On December 18th, members of the Śivadharma Project had their last reading session of this term (and this solar year). These weekly readings have proven very important as a way to…
In November and December 2019, Margherita Trento has lead an informal reading group to introduce students, and some fellow Śivadharmins like Kenji Takahashi, to literary Tamil. The group has been reading every week bits of Maṟaiñāṉa Campantar's Civatarumōttaram, 16th-century Tamil translation of the Śivadharmattora, with its commentary. More specifically, Margherita…
Brilliant scholars about to start the session. From left to right: Nirajan Kafle, Kenji Takahashi and Giulia Buriola. Vṛṣasārasaṃgraha chapter 16 being edited...
Margherita and her dissertation committee in Chicago, from left to right, E. Annamalai, Sascha Ebeling and Whitney Cox. On 25 November 2019, Margherita Trento, a Śivadharma team member and currently a postdoc at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” successfully defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. The dissertation,…
On November 16th, 2019, Florinda led a reading session on chapter 1 of the Śivadharmottara during the "Age of Vedānta" conference, organised by Elaine Fisher at Stanford University. During this lecture, she focussed on a chapter of the early Śaiva text that has been rewritten several times in different sectarian…
From September 30th till October 2nd, team members of the Śivadharma Project, members of the advisory board, collaborators and other experts on the history of Śaivism gathered in Naples for a 3-day workshop on the Śivadharma and related sources.This workshop was a very important opportunity to introduce everybody to the…