13.00-13.30

Opening

13.30-14.45

Keynote speaker: Daud Ali

Understanding Violence among Political Elites in Early Medieval India

14.45-15.15

Coffee break

Chair: Cinzia Pieruccini

15.15-15.50

David Pierdominici Leão,  The royal valaya and the divine makuṭa: violence as formative and legitimising element in the Pāṇḍya identity and dynastic narrative

15.50-16.25

Aleksandra Turek, Rajput vocabulary of violence 

16.25-17.00

Edeltraud Harzer, Violence in Service of Religion in pre-classical India

17.00-17.20

Coffee break

Chair: Danuta Stasik

17.20-17.55

Martin Hříbek, Violence and Statehood in Modern Indian Thought 

17.55-18.30

Hermina Cielas, The Slaughter of Innocents in Indian Perspective: An Incident in the Nativity Narrative as Described in Kristubhāgavatam by P. C. Devassia (1906-2006)

18.45-20.30

Reception (Hall in the Old Library Building)

09.00-10.00

Keynote speaker: Ganesh Umakant Thite

Ritual: Violence and Non-violence

10.00-10.30

Coffee break

Chair: Ewa Dębicka-Borek

10.30-12.10

How the competitive institutions of the Vrātyas were interpreted as evidence of their aggressiveness

Chiara Neri – Tiziana Pontillo, Vrātyas’ or ancient Indo-Aryans’ violence? Challenge and defeat within the patterns of Vedic and Buddhist dialogues  

Diletta Falqui, Competitiveness in Sacred Knowledge: evidence of Indo-Aryan verbal rivalry in the Aṣṭāvakrīya-Upākhyāna (MBh 3.132-134)  

Anita M. Borghero, Some observations about warrior-gods in the imagery of Vrātyas 

Valentina Ferrero, Vrātya and vrātīna in Sanskrit grammatical source

12.10-12.45

Paola M. Rossi, Agonistic scenes of the mahāvrata rite: the praiser-abhigara and the reviler-apagara 

12.45-14.00

Lunch break

Chair: Tiziana Pontillo

14.00-14.35

Danielle Feller, Adding Insult to Injury: Whipping Stories in the Mahābhārata 

14.35-15.10

Zuzana Špicová, “I Cannot Bear Killing a Woman”: Kṣatriyadharma and Killing Women in the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa  

15.10-15.45

Frank Köhler, Another case of brahminical violence? Kṛpa in the  Mahābhārata

15.45-16.20

Zdenek Štipl, Violent Krishna in the 10th Skandha of the Bhagavata Purana 

16.20-16.50

Coffee break

Chair: Danielle Feller

16.50-17.30

Elena Mucciarelli, Naresh Keerthi, Split in Bhakti, United in Bhakti : The Valence of Violence in Jaimini’s Cycle of Tales  

17.30-18.05

Cristina Bignami, Fractal Dependency: Devotion and Violence, Slavery and Love in the Temples of Medieval Karnataka

18.05-18.50

Ewa Dębicka-Borek, On quarrel and gender in the ritual context of South Indian Vaishnava temples

8.45-9.45

Keynote speaker: Rajendran C.

Violence and death in Kerala's classical theatre: Texts and performances

Chair: Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz

9.45-10.20

Cinzia Pieruccini, Vīrabhadra, the Dreadful Destroyer of Sacrifice. Representations in Plaques from South India

10.20-10.55

Chiara Policardi, The Goddess on Lion: Animal Symbolism in the Representations of the Female Warrior Deity in Kuṣāṇa and Gupta India

10.55-11.15

Coffee break

Chair: Monika Browarczyk

11.15-11.50

Danuta Stasik, Poets on Combat for Secularism and Democracy: Context Ayodhya 1992

11.50-12.25

Maria Skakuj Puri, Reading between the lines: Dalip Kaur Tiwana’s reflections on dissent and violence in Jimīn pūche āsmān

12.25-13.00

Anna Trynkowska, Environmental Issues, Tribal People and a Reinterpretation of Indian. Epic Tradition in a Bengali Short Story A Bird Mother (Pākhir Mā) by Sunil Gangopadhyay 

13.00-13.15

Coffee break

Chair: Martin Hribek

13.15-13.50

Monika Browarczyk, Partition Literature in Hindi and Narratives of Violence Against Women 

13.50-14.25

Weronika Rokicka, Gentle violence: Bengali middle class women living under patriarchy in Bani Basu's novels 

14.25-15.00

Ilona Kędzia, Cruel substances: on “binding” and “killing” in Tamil Siddha alchemical texts

15.00

Closing