Yoga Darsana Yoga Sadhana: authenticity, authority and adaptation

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #25: Yoga for Śaivas: The Śivadharma tradition (7th–16th centuries)

Amphi 250

Saarthak Singh (EFEO, GREI)

› Translating Yoga for Śaivas: the case of the Civatarumōttaram - Renato Davalos (CNRS, Cesah) 08:30-09:00 (30min)

› Who are the Śivayogins? An investigation in Sanskrit sources - Florinda De Simini (University of Naples) 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Who are the Śivayogins? Notes from the Tamil South - Margherita Trento (EHESS/IFP, Cesah) 09:30-10:00 (30min)

› From prāṇa to śakti—The emergence of the central channel in Tantric yoga - Judit Törzsök (EPHE, GREI) 10:00-10:30 (30min)

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #26: Yoga in Contemporary India I

Amphi 150

Mark Singleton (School of Oriental and African Languages)

› 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) 08:30-09:00 (30min)

› Transmission of Yoga in Contemporary India: The Lakulish Yoga University - Pamela Warner (EHESS, Cesah) 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› The Political Evolution of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga in Postcolonial India - Sudipta Mohanty (EHESS, Cesah) 09:30-10:00 (30min)

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #27: Maps, Mats, Meals & Marketing

Room 50

Stuart Ray Sarbacker (Oregon State University)

› The Map, The Territory, and the Reason for Travelling: Lessons from Yogalands - Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria) 08:30-08:54 (24min)

› Does the Mat Matter? Investigating the Materiality of Yoga Practice in the Bhagavadgītā - Adheesh Sathaye (University of British Columbia) 08:54-09:18 (24min)

› Are Onions Worse Than Meat? Modernizing Yoga Along Vegetarian Morality - Beatrix Hauser (University of Bremen) 09:18-09:42 (24min)

› Food for Non-thought: The Evolving Role of Diet in Yoga Texts - Zoe Slatoff (Loyola Marymount University) 09:42-10:06 (24min)

› Logos and Lotuses: Authority and the Cultural Work of Marketing Yoga - Christa Kuberry (FinAbility) 10:06-10:30 (24min)

8:30 - 10:30 (2h)

Session #28: Sites & Texts

Room 3.03

Daniela Bevilacqua (University Institute of Lisbon)

› Bodymind as a cognitive tool in Pratyabhijñā philosophy of nondual Śaivism of Kashmir - Anna Freud (School of Oriental and African Studies) 08:30-09:00 (30min)

› ‘Yogic Bhakti' in Early Modern Vernacular Nāth and Sant Literature - Hunter Hill (University of Oxford) 09:00-09:30 (30min)

› Selective Reception: Herman Walter and the Shaping of Haṭhayoga in German Indology (1890–1935) - Anja Nikodem (University of Tartu) 09:30-10:00 (30min)

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee break

Mezzanine

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #29: New Research on Mantras & Yoga IV

Amphi 250

Hugo David (EFEO)

› Mantram, Posture and Siddhi in a South Indian Martial Art - Lucy May Constantini (University of Vienna, MANTRAMS Project) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Swami Sivananda's Japa Yoga: Framing Mantra Practice as a Form of Yoga - Gudrun Bühnemann (University of Wisconsin Madison) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Sikh Kirtan Parampara and Maryada: Dueling Claims to Authority in Revival of Sikh Music Tradition - Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker (Loyola Marymount University) 12:00-12:30 (30min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #30: Yoga in Contemporary India II

Amphi 150

Nicolas Dejenne (USN, GREI)

› Authenticity, Authority and Adaptation: Yoga, bhakti and the Radhsoami tradition - Diana Dimitrova (University of Montreal) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Mother Nation: The Healthy Female Body in Contemporary India - Ida Pajunen (University of Oxford) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Yoga between Authenticity and Commodification: Politics and Postcolonial Dynamics in Globalized Yoga Practices - Anna Krämer (University of Cologne) 12:00-12:30 (30min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #31: Worldviews and Contexts

Room 50

Aminah Mohammad-Arif (CNRS, Cesah)

› Towards a Typology of Yogic Worldviews - Janne Kontala (Abo Akademi University) 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Authenticity and Authority on the Margins: The Muslim Jogis (Yogis) as Tantric Healers, Bards, and Islamic Practitioners - Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich) 11:30-12:00 (30min)

› Desmond Dunne's “Yogism” of the 1960s: Psychologization and Secularisation of Yoga - Magdalena Kraler (University of Vienna) 12:00-12:30 (30min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

Session #32: Polarization

Room 3.03

Theo Wildcroft (Open University)

› Yoga, mind and body relations. An experience of yoga in prisons, in Argentina. - Victoria D’hers (University of Buenos Aires) 11:00-11:20 (20min)

› Altar of Fire: Authenticity and Agency in Visual Anthropology - Sabbi Lall (Harvard Divinity School) 11:20-11:40 (20min)

› Can Christians Practice Yoga? - Allyson Huval (Georgetown University) 11:40-12:00 (20min)

› Yoga, Fascists, Activists and Scholars: Asymmetries of Misinformation - Daniel Simpson (Independent Scholar) 12:00-12:20 (20min)

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch break

Foyer

13:00 - 14:00 (1h)

Guided tour of the Humathèque Research Library

Campus Condorcet

13:30 - 14:00 (30min)

Plenary Session #33: Oceano Respiração: Live Participatory Performance

Mezzanine

Marissa Clarke (University of Edinburgh)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #34: Echoes of the Yogasūtra

Amphi 250

Thibaut D’Hubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

› How did God enter Yoga philosophy? - Knut Axel Jacobsen (University of Bergen) 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› Ethics and the authentication of authority in yogic traditions - Brett Parris (University of Oxford) 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Realizing the Self in Integration, Not Separation: Bhakti Appropriations of the Pātañjala Yoga Model of Liberation - Eileen Goddard (University of California-Santa Barbara) 14:40-15:00 (20min)

› Rājayoga in the 17th century - Jérôme Petit (BnF, GREI) 15:00-15:20 (20min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #35: Round Table on “Expanding Epistemologies”

Amphi 150

Ruth Westoby (OCHS), Theo Wildcroft (Open University), Dagmar Wujastyk (University of Alberta), Lucy May Constantini (University of Vienna, MANTRAMS Project), Borayin Larios (University of Vienna), Carola Lorea (University of Tübingen), Marissa Clarke (University of Edinburgh)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #36: Yoga in the US Academy

Room 50

Christopher Miller (University of Zürich)

› Academic Study of Yoga - Christopher Chapple (Loyola Marymount University) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Building and Maintaining an Academic Yoga Studies Program at a Publicly Funded Community College - Kari Ross-Berry (Southwestern College) 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Yoga Studies MA program at Naropa University - Ben Williams (Associate Professor, Naropa University) 15:00-15:30 (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) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

14:00 - 16:00 (2h)

Session #37: Localization: Yoga in Scandinavia

Room 3.03

Tova Olsson (Umeå University)

› Conspirituality in the Finnish yoga scene - Kia Andell (Åbo Akademi) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Yoga Practitioners in Finland - Måns Broo (Åbo Akademi) 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› Trans and nonbinary in/visibility in Finnish yoga - Ella Poutiainen (Åbo Akademi) 15:00-15:30 (30min)

› Yoga in Norwegian Kindergartens: What is it, And Who is it For? - Marie Glasø Glein (Queen Maud University College) 15:30-16:00 (30min)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Coffee break

Mezzanine

16:30 - 17:30 (1h)

Session #38: Keynote address by Sunila Kale & Christian Novetzke: “Sovereignty, Boycott and Struggle: The Three Registers of Political Yoga”

Amphi 250

Raphaël Voix (CNRS, Cesah)

17:30 - 18:00 (30min)

Closing Remarks & Thank yous

Amphi 250

Raphaël Voix, Suzanne Newcombe, Theo Wildcroft, Pamela Warner, Amandine Wattelier-Bricout, Ruth Westoby