Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe

The Harvard Session of the "Exchange of Ideas and Culture between South Asia and Central Europe" Conference took place on October 28-29, 2005. The programme is shown below.

Friday October 28th

10:00-12:00
Panel I: Nineteenth-century philosophies
Chair: Emma Rothschild

Andrew Sartori, University of Chicago, Chicago. “Neo-Vedantic Idealism as a Philosophical Discourse of Modernity”
Discussant: Ben Zachariah

Peter Park, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, “Darsana vs. Philosophy: German University Philosophers Debate India, 1790-1830”
Discussant: Sudipta Kaviraj

12:00-1:30
Lunch

1:30-3:30
Panel II: Scholars and Researchers
Chair: Gita Dharampal-Frick

Indra Sengupta, German Historial Institute, London, “Für die Wissenschaft verloren sein: German Indologists in Colonial India and the Question of Scholarship.”
Discussant: Harald Fischer-Tiné

Shruti Kapila, Tufts University, Boston, “Reorienting Race: Religion, Orientalism and Phrenology, India and Beyond, 1770s to 1870s.’s
Discussant: Manu Goswami

3:30-6:00
Break

4:00-5:30
Keynote Lecture
Introduced by Sugata Bose

Chris Bayly
“Empires and Liberalism: Historicism and History
in India in the Nineteenth Century”

6:00
Reception

7:00
Dinner at Elephant Walk

October 29th

9:30-12:30
Panel III: Orientalism
Chair: TBA

Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. “Race and Religion in Neoromantic German Indology”
Discussant: David Armitage

Roland Lardinois, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. “Understanding India from the Periphery: Indological Scholarship in France (18th - 20th centuries)”
Discussant: Doug McGetchin

Kris Manjapra, Harvard University, "Red Orientalism: Communist Knowledge of South Asia and the Implicated Colonial Intellectual"
Discussant: Dilip Menon

12:30-2:00
Lunch

2:00-4:00
Panel IV: India in European National Consciousness
Chair: C.A. Bayly

Fabrizio de Donno, Cambridge University, "Aryanism and 'Romanità' in Post-unification Italian Indology"
Discussant: Amit Dasgupta and Stanislava Vavrouskova

Jaroslav Strnad, Charles University, Prague. “India as Reflected in the Czech Consciousness in the Era of the National Renaissance Movement in the Nineteenth Century”
Discussant: Claude Markovitz