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Istituto Italiano

di Studi Orientali ISO

For inormation:

Istituto Italiano di Studi OrientaliPro. Raaele Torellatorella@uniroma1.it

Museo Nazionale dArte Orientale Giuseppe TucciDr. Laura Giulianolauragiuliano@hotmail.com

14th March, 9.3019.00

15th March, 9.3013.00

MNAO, Via Merulana 248, Sala degliSpecchi

15th March, 15.0019.00

ISO, Via Principe Amedeo 182b, room 1

India, rst o all in its philosophical and religious dimension,has been usually considered by the West as a civilizationignoring nature and only interested in the absolute and inliberation rom the phenomenal world. Such an opinion hasoten imbued with prejudices also our judgments aboutcontemporary India. In order to question these prejudices andreconsider the concept o nature in India, thus enriching alsothe contemporary discourse about it in the West, a researchproject has been unded by Sapienza University o Rome,

under the direction o Raaele Torella. The main lines o theproject have been: level A) exploring in various directions thephilosophical, aesthetic and religious thought o traditionalIndia, also in its sociological and anthropological aspects; levelB) ocusing the theme o nature in the historical and political-sociological dimension o contemporary India.

The present conerence is the nal outcome o this research.

Photo by Italo Casale

The Human Person and Nature

in Classical and Modern India

International ConerenceRome, 1415 March 2013

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Programme

14th March: Classical India

Morning Session

Museo Nazionale dArte Orientale GiuseppeTucci, via Merulana 248, Sala degli Specchi

9.3010.00 Authorities

10.0010.30 Rafaele Torella (Rome): Introduction

10.3011.00 Gilles Tarabout (Paris): Spots o wilderness.Nature in the Hindu Temples o Kerala

11.0011.30 cofee break

11.3012.00 Elisa Freschi (Vienna): Systematizing an absentcategory: di scourses on nature in PrbhkaraMmm. s

12.0012.30 Rosa Fernandez Gomez (Malaga): Savouringthe rasa o lie. The artul yogi in Kashmir aivism

12.3013.00 Giuliano Boccali (Milan): The description oHimlaya in Klidsas Kumrasam. bhava I, 117

13.0015.30 lunch

Aternoon Session

Museo Nazionale dArte Orientale Giuseppe

Tucci, via Merulana 248, Sala degli Specchi

15.3016.00 Carmela Mastrangelo (Rome): Naturallanguages and cultural language substrateinfuence and classical tradition in the Sanskritgrammars by Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo

16.0016.30 Bruno Lo Turco (Rome): Woman, nature and sat

16.3017.00 Gioia Lussana (Rome): Fluid Mother Goddess:water and blood as the fowing sacred essence oMah Dev in kta tantrism o Kmkhy

17.0017.30 cofee break

17.3018.00 Elisa Ganser (Paris): Poetic convention, theatrical

artice, and the place o nature in Indian dramat-ic theory

18.0018.30 Maria Piera Candotti (Turin), Tiziana Pontillo(Cagliari): Is svabhva a strictly grammatical ex-pression in the Mahbhs.ya? Notes on the earlyhistory o a philosophical term

18.3019.00 Laura Giuliano (Rome): Guh in Indian art:the place o maniestation. Representation o aconcept, rethinking the landscape, recreating thenatural space

15th March:Modern and contemporary India

Morning Session

Museo Nazionale dArte Orientale Giuseppe

Tucci, via Merulan a 248, Sala degli Specchi

9.3010.00 Giorgio Milanetti (Rome): Introduction

10.0010.30 Daniela Berti (Paris): Gods rights and environ-mental policy in Himachal Pradesh

10.3011.00 Jayati Srivastava (New Delhi): Environment asdiscursive contestation: Narratives o environ-mentalism in India

11.0011.30 cofee break

11.3012.00 Giorgio Milanetti (Rome): Journeys throughnature in Jayasi and Tulsi: hints o an urban-ru-ral divide?

12.0012.30 Mario Prayer (Rome): Looking at man andnature in rural Bengal: Manik Bandyopadhyaysnovel Padm nadr mjhi.

12.3013.00 Mara Matta (Rome, Naples): Womanizing

nature in Indian literature and cinema

13.0014.30 lunch

Aternoon Session, Istituto Italiano di

Studi Orientali, Sapienza University o

Rome, via Principe Amedeo 182b, room 1

15.0015.30 Ursula Mnster (Munich): Human-elephantrelations in contemporary South India

15.3016.00 Sanjukta Das Gupta (Kolkata, Rome): Rep-resenting tribes and nature in colonial India:British accounts o Chotanagpur and SantalParganas

16.0016.30 Christine Lutringer (Lausanne): Experiment-ing nature: local knowledge and scienticresearch in Ind ias rice bowl

16.3017.00 Daniel Mnster (Heidelberg): Agrarian alter-natives: An ethnographic research programmeon human-nature relations in contemporary

India

17.0018.30 General discussion