Program

Welcome & opening remarks

13:30 - 14:00 (30min)

Amphi 250

Raphaël Voix, Amandine Wattelier-Bricout, Suzanne Newcombe, Ruth Westoby, Theo Wildcroft, Borayin Larios

How is Kunḍaliṇī Conceived When She First Appears in 7th Century Scriptures of the Śaiva-Siddhānta ?

14:00 - 15:00 (1h)

Amphi 250

Dominic Goodall

Coffee break

15:00 - 15:30 (30min)

Mezzanine

Session #2: First Critical Edition of the Haṭhapradīpikā

15:30 - 17:30 (2h)

Amphi 250

Isabelle Ratié (Collège de France)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

The Haṭhapradīpikā: insights into Svātmārāma's methods and purpose made possible by the new edition

James Mallinson (University of Oxford)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Development of the various recensions of the Haṭhapradīpikā

Mitsuyo Demoto (Philipps University of Marburg)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

Algorithms and Philology in Dialogue: Reconstructing the Haṭhapradīpikā

Nils Jacob Liersch (Philipps University of Marburg)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

The Haṭhapradīpikā's Legacy in the Early Modern Period

Jason Birch (University of Alberta)

Session #3: Responses to Institutional Abuse

15:30 - 17:30 (2h)

Amphi 150

Amanda Lucia (University of California-Riverside)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Doubling-Down and De-Branding: Sustaining Kundalini Yoga After Revelations of Abuse

Philip Deslippe (University of California-Santa Barbara)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

Spiritual Abuse and Sexualised Violence in Modern Transnational Yoga: Crossing the Boundaries of Knowing and Believing

Jens Augspurger (SOAS, University of London)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

Grassroots Organising against a Perpetrator: A Case Study

Amelia Wood (SOAS, University of London)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Educational reform, does it work? Ten years since the Australian Royal Commission.

Jacqueline Hargreaves (SOAS, Centre of Yoga Studies)

Session #4: Bodies & Care, Then & Now

15:30 - 17:30 (2h)

Room 3.01

Fabien Provost (CNRS, Cesah)

15:30 - 15:50 (20min)

The Origins of Tantra in Europe: Constructed Authority, Claimed Authenticity and Creative Adaptation

Tova Olsson (Umeå University)

15:50 - 16:10 (20min)

Netī - Ancient Remedy or Modern Health Trend?

James Russell (University of Leeds)

16:10 - 16:30 (20min)

Rethinking the Practicing Body: Ethnographic Insights from Situated Iyengar Yoga Practice in Japan

Endo Satoko (University of Tokyo)

16:30 - 16:50 (20min)

RETHINKING CARE THROUGH YOGA : Yogatherapy & Mindfulness between Authenticity, Authority, and Adaptation in Switzerland

Valentina Salonna (Lausanne University Hospital)

16:50 - 17:10 (20min)

Do you believe me because I look like this?

Firdose Moonda (Independent Scholar)

Session #5: Localization: Yoga in France

15:30 - 17:30 (2h)

Room 3.03

Véronique Altglas (Queen’s University)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Yoga teachers' authority: knowledge, power, and professional dynamics

Clément Petitjean (Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, CRIDUP)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

What Working in the Wellness Industry Means: The Example of Yoga Teachers in France

Pierre Bataille (Université Grenoble-Alpes)

16:30 - 17:00 (30min)

Teaching yoga outside cities: profiles, backgrounds, and social predispositions

Clément Cézarine (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)

17:00 - 17:30 (30min)

Yoga and fame on Instagram: the example of influencers

Eléonore Affre-Garcia (Université Toulouse III)

Session #6: Book Launch: Yoga Machine: Technology, Transhumanism and Transcendence by Mark Singleton (School of Oriental and African Languages)

18:00 - 19:00 (1h)

Amphi 250

Vernissage of Dhun / Dhūnī – The Fires of the Name, followed by a Cocktail Dinner

19:00 - 20:30 (1h30)

Mezzanine