INAUGURAL SESSION
The Inaugural Session of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference was held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), in the morning of Monday, July 9, 2018. The full programme is available for download here as a PDF:
- Complete Programme of the WSC2018 Inaugural Session: [VIEW/DOWNLOAD] (PDF, 3.3mb, 4 pages)
You can use the video gallery below to view footage of the speakers and performers.
PLENARY LECTURES
We are pleased to release video recordings of the three distinguished speakers featured in the Plenary Session of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), on July 9, 2018.
These papers have subsequently been published in the following academic journals:
- Cardona, George. 2019. "Philology, Text History, and History of Ideas." Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism (Saṃbhāṣā) 35: 1-34.
- Tripathi, Dipti. 2018. "Reflections on Manuscriptology: Forays into Indian Paradigms of Knowledge Management." Sambodhi: Journal of the L. D. Institute of Indology. Vol. 41.
Use the gallery below to view the video footage of the plenary lectures:
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WSC2018 Plenary Lecture: George Cardona
Professor George Cardona (University of Pennsylvania) delivers a lecture titled, "Philology, Text History, and History of Ideas" as part of the Plenary Session of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, July 9, 2018.
NOTE: The recording has been abridged, as the audio was corrupted for the last 90 seconds.
An expanded version of Prof. Cardona's talk has been published under the same title in : Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism (Saṃbhāṣā) 35 (2019): 1-34. -
WSC2018 Plenary Lecture: Dipti Tripathi
Professor Dipti Tripathi (University of Delhi) delivers a lecture titled, "Reflections on Manuscriptology: Forays into Indian Paradigms of Knowledge Management" as part of the Plenary Session of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, July 9, 2018.
NOTE: Due to recording errors, the audio is distorted for the first 3.55, and the it again drops for about 15 seconds near the end of the lecture. We apologize for these technological difficulties in the quality of this video.
