13:30 Welcome address
Session 1: Inventing Orthodoxy and Homogeneity
14:00-14:45 Nicholas Vogt: “Sloughing Off the Shang: The Conflicted Zhou Legacy and Narratives of Early Chinese Ritual”.
14:45-15:30 Giulia Gebke: “The Ideology of Purity-of-Blood. A Master Narrative in Early Modern Spain”.
Session 2: Buddhist Narratives and Identity
16:00-16:45 Sven Bretfeld: “The Buddha's Treasure Houses: Sri Lanka and Tibet as Subjects of Religious Master Narratives”
16:45-17:30 Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya: “Transculturalism in the Peace Narratives of Japanese Buddhism”
Tuesday, December 17th
Session 3: A Taxonomy of Difference
10:00-10:45 Federico Squarcini: “In the Beginning was Purity. Shaping and Sharing Master Narratives on Origins in Sanskrit Metrical Dharmaśāstra”.
10:45-11:30 Sita Steckel: “Contrasting, Comparing, Connecting. Thirteenth-century Christian Polemics and their Contributions to a Discourse of Religious Diversity”.
Session 4: Ordering the Past
12:00-12:45 Alexandra Walsham: “Making a Master Narrative: Memory, The Reformation and Modern Academic Writing”
12:45-13:30 Erik Schicketanz: “The Formation of Modern Chinese Buddhist Historical Narratives Under Japanese Influence”
Session 5: Translating Narratives
14:30-15:15 Stuart Lachs: “Public Expectations Meet A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy: A Contemporary Zen Autobiography”
15:15-16:00 Antje Flüchter/Giulia Nardini: “Christianity between Orthodoxy and Ambiguity. The Jesuit Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656) Translating between the Worlds“
Session 6: Nation and the City
16:30-17:15 Benjamin Zachariah: “The Invention of Hinduism for National Use”
17:15-18:00 Sadaf Ahmad: “Al-Huda and the Making of an Authoritative Master Narrative in Urban Pakistan”
Wednesday, December 18th
Session 7: Travelling Words
10:00-10:45 Andrew Quintman: “Geographical Narratives, Narrative Geographies: Transformations of Lives and Landscapes on the Himalayan Borderlands”
10:45-11:30 Davide Torri: “From Geographical Periphery to Conceptual Centre: the Travels of Ngagchang Shakya Zangpo and the Discovery of Yolmo Identity”.
Session 8: From Myth to Stone
12:00-12:45 Stefano Beggiora: “Migration, Cultural Adaptation Strategies, Negotiation of Space in the Mythical Narrative of Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh”
12:45-13:30 Hasan Ali Khan: “How the Architecture of a Secret Belief System Affected the Larger Religious Milieu: the Case of the Suhrawardi Building Archetype in Medieval Multan and Uch”