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2 | THE XI DUBROVNIK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SANSKRIT EPICS AND PURANAS - DICSEP 2026

Duration
03 Aug 2026 - 08 Aug 2026
Language
English
Status
REGULAR
Conference directors :
Mislav Ježić , Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia
Renate Söhnen-Thieme , School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom
Conference description:

The Eleventh Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas will discuss, as in the previous conferences, many aspects of current research on the Sanskrit epics and Purāṇas: critical editing of texts, composition, literary techniques, history of texts, chronology, intertextuality, historical context, religious and mythological contents, relationship of texts to the earlier Vedic and later Tantric texts, the contemporary importance of this tradition, computer tools for research of Sanskrit texts, etc.

The theme of the 2026 conference will be:

  • Waters and Forests
  • Current work and research on the Sanskrit epics and Purāṇas

The proceedings of the DICSEP are edited by the International Editorial Committee and published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Dev Publishers, Delhi.

More info can be found on conference web page.

Conference lecturers:
Ivan Andrijanić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Bhagyashree Bavare , Somaiya Vidyavihar University, India
Sudha Berry , N/A, N/A
Simon Brodbeck , University of Cardiff, United Kingdom
Ivana Delić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Arti Dhand , University of Toronto, Canada
Danielle Feller , University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dwaita Hazra Goswami , Independent Researcher, United States
Kengo Harimoto , Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Oliver Hellwig , University of Zürich, Switzerland
Ute Hüsken , University of Heidelberg, Germany
Mislav Ježić , Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia
Prasad Joshi , Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, India
Joanna Jurewicz , University of Warsaw, Poland
Georgi Krastev , University of Vienna, Austria
Krešimir Krnić , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Sanne Mersch , University of Leiden, Netherlands
Priyamvada Nambrath , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Per-Johan Norelius , Uppsala University, Sweden
Monika Nowakowska , University of Warsaw, Poland
Mai Oki , Kyoto University, Japan
Renuka Panchal , University of Mumbai, India
James F Pierce , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Luca Piscopo , University of Naples "L'Orientale", Italy
Anuja Purandare, , University of Mumbai, India
Marion Rastelli , Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Paola Maria Rossi , University of Milan, Italy
Sven Sellmer , University of Poznan, Poland
Shailesh Shinde , Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, India
Renate Söhnen-Thieme , School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom
Zuzana Špicova , Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Valerie Stoker , Wright State University, United States
Philippe Swennen , University of Liege, Belgium
Przemyslaw Szczurek , University of Wroclaw, Poland
Kenji Takahashi , Kyoto University, Japan
Chikamitsu Taniguchi , University of Tokyo, Japan
Hideki Teshima , Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan
Rumyana Toleva , Independent Researcher, United States
Anna Trynkowska , University of Warsaw, Poland
Kenneth Valpey , Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, United Kingdom
Yaroslav Vassilkov , Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St.Petersburg, Russia
Christophe Vielle , Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium