9.15-9.30
Opening Remarks by Milinda Banerjee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Panel I: The Mahabharata as Political Philosophy
9.30-10.00
Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
(to be confirmed)
‘My Birth is My Fatal Accident': Re-Reading Ekalavya in the Age of Rohith Vemula
10.00-10.30
Paulus Kaufmann, Universität Zürich
German Philosophers about Indian Philosophy and the Mahabharata
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.20: Break
Panel II: Decolonial Expropriations I: From Anti-British Resistance to Subaltern Democracy and Theory
11.20-11.50
Shuvatri Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
Beyond 'Ethics and Epics': Rethinking the Mahabharatas Transtemporally through the Affective Politics of Religion, Caste, and Gender
11.50-12.20
Simon Cubelic, Universität Heidelberg
The Mahābhārata and the Political Idiom in Nepal’s Time of Crisis, c. 1806- 1846

12.20-12.50 Discussion
12.50-2.00: Lunch
Panel III: Decolonial Expropriations II
2.00-2.30
Milinda Banerjee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität/Presidency University, Kolkata
Assembling between Sovereignty and Justice: Mahabharata, Dharmarajya, and the Opening of Autonomy in Bengal
2.30-3.00
Melanie J. Müller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
The Production and Deconstruction of the 'Ideal Indian Woman' through the Mahābhārata in the 20th Century
3.00-3.30 Discussion
3.30-50: Break
Panel IV: The Mahabharata in Global Intellectual History
3.50-4.20
Egas Moniz-Bandeira, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
East Asian Uses of Indian Philosophy: Some Refractions of the Mahabharata in China and Japan
4.20-4.50
Philipp Sperner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Heroic (Hi)story and Universal Song: Some Comparative Thoughts on the Reception of the Mahabharata in Early 20th-century Hindi Literature/Criticism and Early 19th Century German Romanticism
4.50-5.20 Discussion
Break: 5.20-5.40 Concluding Discussion: 5.40-6.40