

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 51st Annual Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 am – Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us in person for the 51st Annual Spalding Symposium exploring vibrant traditions of Indian religions!About this EventProgramme:Friday 27 March8:30 Arrival and registration9:00 – 9:10 Welcome &amp; Housekeeping9:10 – 10:00 Keynote 1Ankur Barua (Cambridge University)15 min Break10:15 – 11:45 Panel 1Karen O’Brien-Kop (KCL): Using Samkhya to query ontological boundaries and mobilise consciousness in the AnthropoceneRosina Pastore (UGent): Brahman and Cinema: Explaining Vedānta in 20th century North India11:45 – 13:00 – Lunch13:00 – 15:15 Panel 2Nabanjan Maitra (Bard): How to Re(Write) the VedaPaola M Rossi (Milan): The poet ‘who fashions the boundaries’: Vedic poetry and mapping cosmosShivani Bothra (California State: Long Beach): Reimagining Dharma: Jain Migration, Gender, and the Shifting Boundaries of Tradition15:15 – 15:30 – Break15:30 – 17:45 Panel 3Brian Black (Lancaster): From the Margins to the Centre: Rethinking Nāgas in the MahābhārataAyelet Kotler (Leiden): Persian Ramayanas and Mughal CosmopolitanismSinah Kloß (Bonn): Hair, Heat, and Boundaries: Questioning the Material and Sensory Dimensions of the Body in Hindu SurinameDinner thereafter 18:45Saturday 28 March9:00 – 11:00 Panel 4: Postgraduate PanelAamir Kaderbhai (Oxford): The Infinite Mirror: Questioning the Boundary between Reality and Imagination in the MokṣopāyaWeibing NI (Cambridge): ‘Sita Crosses Kala Pani’: Retelling the Ramayana in the CaribbeanSimon Winant (UGent): Where Othering ends and Smothering begins: how to discuss the ‘Muslim’ merchant Saʽīd/Ṣadīq in Jain chroniclesOjaswini Shekhawat (Yale): Fantasizing as the (Un)Attainable “Other”: A 17th Century Minor Sanskritist’s Take on the Mughal Harem11:00 – 11:15 – Break11:15 – 12:45 Panel 5Neelima Shukla-Bhatt (Wellesley College): Dancing and Questioning Boundaries: Garbo, the Goddess Worship Ritual of Gujarati WomenMadhumita Sengupta (IIT Gandhinagar): Ashaan Bibi and the Cultural Resonances of Partition in Bengal12:45 – 14:00 – Lunch14:00 – 15:30 Panel 6Mukesh Kumar (Zürich): Fluid Frontiers of Faith: Boundary Crossing in the Ritual Ecology of South CanaraMaharshi Vyas (UNC Chapel Hill): What does it mean to be ‘tribal’? Questioning Identitarian Boundaries through Historical Interactions and Contemporary Lived Religious Realities15:30 – 15:45 – Break15:45 – 16:35 Closing KeynoteProf. Monica Juneja (HCTS, Heidelberg University)16:35 – 16:45 – Closing Remarks51st Annual Spalding Symposium on Indian ReligionsJoin us in person for the 51st Annual Spalding Symposium where we dive deep into the fascinating world of Indian Religions. It's a great chance to connect, learn, and share ideas with others who are passionate about this rich cultural and spiritual heritage. Don't miss out on thought-provoking talks and lively discussions!Theme: Questioning BoundariesAs the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions moves into its fifty-first rendition, and turns a new corner, we would like to take this opportunity to examine the state of the field of Indian Religions, to see where boundaries are, and where the field might go next.Questioning a boundary makes one aware of what that boundary is, what purpose it serves, and what it seeks to keep in, and to keep out. Ancient texts, such as the Upaniṣads and the Tripiṭaka, have explored the lines between the perishable and imperishable, the material and immaterial, dhārmika and adhārmika, right and wrong, true and false. Limits are negotiated, policed, contested, and crossed, not only in philosophical, ritual and legal texts, but also in literature, art, performance and even architecture. Boundaries become fluid, and status quos are challenged as ideas, methods and thoughts are applied and re-applied in new contexts.The scholarly field of Indian Religions has examined the role of boundaries and limits. More recently, scholarship has focused on boundaries of the global north and south, the human and the ecological, and boundaries of religious traditions. We have also seen work that challenges disciplinary boundaries and methodological approaches, and also involves interlocutors, artists, filmmakers and the public.Where can the field go next? How can and do scholars interact with the digital, the material, and the global? What new approaches may they use? What should the 2025 scholar of Indology and/or Indian Religions be aware of, and what other places can the modern scholar learn from? How can the field become more equitable and open to new approaches and methods? How can the study of Indian Religions maintain its relevancy in a time and place where the Humanities are increasingly under threat? And how can the study of Indian Religions help us deal with the problems of today such as isolation, extremism, post-truthism, intolerance and climate change?
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- **city**: Cambridge
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- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Faculty of Divinity
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- **full address**: Faculty of Divinity, 25 West Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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