Program

08:30 - 09:00 (30min)

Translating Yoga for Śaivas: the case of the Civatarumōttaram

Renato Davalos (CNRS, Cesah)

09:00 - 09:30 (30min)

Who are the Śivayogins? An investigation in Sanskrit sources

Florinda De Simini (University of Naples)

09:30 - 10:00 (30min)

Who are the Śivayogins? Notes from the Tamil South

Margherita Trento (EHESS/IFP, Cesah)

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

From prāṇa to śakti—The emergence of the central channel in Tantric yoga

Judit Törzsök (EPHE, GREI)

08:30 - 09:00 (30min)

Yoga as an Academic Disciple in Indian Public Universities. The Case of the Department of Yogic Art and Science, Vishva Bharati (West Bengal)

Raphaël Voix (CNRS, Cesah)

09:00 - 09:30 (30min)

Transmission of Yoga in Contemporary India: The Lakulish Yoga University

Pamela Warner (EHESS, Cesah)

09:30 - 10:00 (30min)

The Political Evolution of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga in Postcolonial India

Sudipta Mohanty (EHESS, Cesah)

08:30 - 08:54 (24min)

The Map, The Territory, and the Reason for Travelling: Lessons from Yogalands

Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria)

08:54 - 09:18 (24min)

Does the Mat Matter? Investigating the Materiality of Yoga Practice in the Bhagavadgītā

Adheesh Sathaye (University of British Columbia)

09:18 - 09:42 (24min)

Are Onions Worse Than Meat? Modernizing Yoga Along Vegetarian Morality

Beatrix Hauser (University of Bremen)

09:42 - 10:06 (24min)

Food for Non-thought: The Evolving Role of Diet in Yoga Texts

Zoe Slatoff (Loyola Marymount University)

10:06 - 10:30 (24min)

Logos and Lotuses: Authority and the Cultural Work of Marketing Yoga

Christa Kuberry (FinAbility)

08:30 - 09:00 (30min)

Bodymind as a cognitive tool in Pratyabhijñā philosophy of nondual Śaivism of Kashmir

Anna Freud (School of Oriental and African Studies)

09:00 - 09:30 (30min)

Archaeologies of Ecstasy: Yoginīs and the Hidden Histories of Yoga

Vineet Gairola (Indian Institute of Technology)

09:30 - 10:00 (30min)

‘Yogic Bhakti' in Early Modern Vernacular Nāth and Sant Literature

Hunter Hill (University of Oxford)

10:00 - 10:30 (30min)

Selective Reception: Herman Walter and the Shaping of Haṭhayoga in German Indology (1890–1935)

Anja Nikodem (University of Tartu)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Mantram, Posture and Siddhi in a South Indian Martial Art

Lucy May Constantini (University of Vienna, MANTRAMS Project)

11:30 - 12:00 (30min)

Swami Sivananda's Japa Yoga: Framing Mantra Practice as a Form of Yoga

Gudrun Bühnemann (University of Wisconsin Madison)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Sikh Kirtan Parampara and Maryada: Dueling Claims to Authority in Revival of Sikh Music Tradition

Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker (Loyola Marymount University)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Authenticity, Authority and Adaptation: Yoga, bhakti and the Radhsoami tradition

Diana Dimitrova (University of Montreal)

11:30 - 12:00 (30min)

Mother Nation: The Healthy Female Body in Contemporary India

Ida Pajunen (University of Oxford)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Yoga between Authenticity and Commodification: Politics and Postcolonial Dynamics in Globalized Yoga Practices

Anna Krämer (University of Cologne)

11:00 - 11:30 (30min)

Towards a Typology of Yogic Worldviews

Janne Kontala (Abo Akademi University)

11:30 - 12:00 (30min)

Authenticity and Authority on the Margins: The Muslim Jogis (Yogis) as Tantric Healers, Bards, and Islamic Practitioners

Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich)

12:00 - 12:30 (30min)

Desmond Dunne's “Yogism” of the 1960s: Psychologization and Secularisation of Yoga

Magdalena Kraler (University of Vienna)

11:00 - 11:20 (20min)

Yoga, mind and body relations. An experience of yoga in prisons, in Argentina.

Victoria D’hers (University of Buenos Aires)

11:20 - 11:40 (20min)

Altar of Fire: Authenticity and Agency in Visual Anthropology

Sabbi Lall (Harvard Divinity School)

11:40 - 12:00 (20min)

Can Christians Practice Yoga?

Allyson Huval (Georgetown University)

12:00 - 12:20 (20min)

Yoga, Fascists, Activists and Scholars: Asymmetries of Misinformation

Daniel Simpson (Independent Scholar)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

How did God enter Yoga philosophy?

Knut Axel Jacobsen (University of Bergen)

14:30 - 15:00 (30min)

Ethics and the authentication of authority in yogic traditions

Brett Parris (University of Oxford)

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Realizing the Self in Integration, Not Separation: Bhakti Appropriations of the Pātañjala Yoga Model of Liberation

Eileen Goddard (University of California-Santa Barbara)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Rājayoga in the 17th century

Jérôme Petit (BnF, GREI)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

Academic Study of Yoga

Christopher Chapple (Loyola Marymount University)

14:30 - 15:00 (30min)

Building and Maintaining an Academic Yoga Studies Program at a Publicly Funded Community College

Kari Ross-Berry (Southwestern College)

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Yoga Studies MA program at Naropa University

Ben Williams (Associate Professor, Naropa University)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

The Development of Sri Aurobindo Studies in Contemporary Academia: Texts, Archives, Institutions, and Transcultural Networks

Devdip Ganguli (California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco)

14:00 - 14:30 (30min)

Conspirituality in the Finnish yoga scene

Kia Andell (Åbo Akademi)

14:30 - 15:00 (30min)

Yoga Practitioners in Finland

Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi)

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Trans and nonbinary in/visibility in Finnish yoga

Ella Poutiainen (Åbo Akademi)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Yoga in Norwegian Kindergartens: What is it, And Who is it For?

Marie Glasø Glein (Queen Maud University College)