News Archive
“A Critical Edition of the Kāśikāvṛtti” - Project Launch
January, 2011 saw the official launch of the project "A Critical Edition of the Kāśikāvṛtti", which will be carried out by Dr Eivind Kahrs (Project leader) and Dr Vincenzo Vergiani in collaboration with Prof. Malhar Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, and Prof. Saroja Bhate, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, University of Pune.
The Project is funded by a British Academy grant in the frame of the International Partnerships Scheme with South Asia. It aims, over three years, at preparing a critical edition of the whole first book of this 7th-century work attributed to Jayāditya and Vāmana, which is the oldest complete commentary on the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini, while investigating its role in the history of Sanskrit grammatical thought.
International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS)
Thursday, 23rd & Friday, 24th September, 2010
A two-day conference designed to bring together graduate students working with primary sources in Indology so that they can present, discuss and publish their research.
For more information, please visit: iigrs.byethost17.com
Sanskrit Life-Worlds: Antiquity to Early Modernity
Tuesday, 11th May, 2010 from 10:00 - 16:00
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
A colloquium with Professor Sheldon Pollock (William B Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Columbia, US).
The Great Chain of Academic Being
A View from the Bottom: Reflections on the Non-Western, the Non-Modern, and the Philological
A lecture by Professor Sheldon Pollock (William B Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Columbia, US)
Thursday, 13th May, 2010 from 17:00 - 19:00
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.
Ideas of India in Britain 1857-1947
Friday, 14th and Saturday, 15th May, 2010
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
A workshop aiming to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of ideas of India in Britain between 1857 and 1947.
Top Prize to a Cambridge Student in a UK Varsity Chinese Competition
A 4th-year student from the Department of East Asian Studies, Miss Frances Gregory (Selwyn College), won the top prize at the 7th UK Varsity Chinese Competition, which was held at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 15th March 2008.
Eleven students representing different universities in the U.K. participated in the competition, at which students had to do various tasks in Chinese including making speeches, giving Chinese artistic performances, answering questions about Chinese history, culture, society, geography, current affairs, etc. Miss Gregory impressed the judges and the audience by getting a full score in answering questions related to architecture in Beijing, Chinese proverbs, Chinese traditional embroidery, etc. In her speech, she used both Chinese and Western examples to argue against the biased view that women were inferior to men. She also gave a performance of Chinese sword-dancing, which was enthusiastically received by the audience.
Miss Gregory’s teacher, Miss Pei-yi Wu, a Lector in Chinese at the Department of East Asian Studies, was awarded the prize for Best Instructor. This is the third time that Cambridge has sent a representative to participate in the competition and Cambridge has won the top prize in every competition it has participated in.
Miss Gregory will represent the U.K. in the 2008 World Varsity Chinese Competition to be held in China in July 2008.
