The 2nd TST workshop, 7-8 October 2021
We are pleased to present the programme for the 2nd TST workshop, which will be held in Paris, in the conference centre of the Campus Condorcet, and online on 7-8 October, 2021.
- To reach the conference centre of the Campus Condorcet see HERE.
- To register to attend online, please fill out the registration form.
The workshop will be preceded by a live, in-person event at the BnF on the evening of the 6th. Due to current health measures, we are unable to invite the broader public to the live event, but we will be posting a report, with photos, on this site, so stay tuned!
On the other hand, the presentations on the 7th and 8th of October will be streamed online. See the schedule below or in the PDF linked above.
Thursday, 7 October
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| 9:30 – 9:45 13:00 – 13:15 |
Opening remarks
Isabelle LE MASNE DE CHERMONT Director of the manuscripts department, BnF |
| 9:45 – 10:15 13:15 – 13:45 |
TST progress report
Emmanuel FRANCIS CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564 |
| 10:15 – 11:15 13:45 – 14:45 |
A survey of paratexts in Tamil manuscripts
T. V. RAJESWARI EFEO, Pondicherry |
| 11:15 – 12:15 14:45 – 15:45 |
The history of Sanskrit manuscript collections as a testimony to the collaboration between European and Indian Sanskrit scholars
Iris Iran FARKHONDEH EA 2120 GREI (EPHE/Sorbonne Nouvelle) |
| 12:15 – 13:30 15:45 – 17:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:30 – 14:30 17:00 – 18:00 |
Tables of Content – What For?
Eva WILDEN Universität Hamburg |
| 14:30 – 15:30 18:00 – 19:00 |
The invocatory verses of Nampi’s Tiruviḷaiyāṭaṟ Purāṇam
Neela BHASKAR Universität Hamburg |
| 15:30 – 16:30 19:00 – 20:00 |
MS Stein Or.d.72, an old birch-bark fragment of the Haravijaya: what marginal annotation can tell us about the composition of kāvya commentaries
Peter PASEDACH Universität Hamburg |
| 16:30 – 17:30 20:00 – 21:00 |
Svaraprakriyā: Exclusive text on accent
Anuja AJOTIKAR Universität Hamburg |
Friday, 8 October
| CET IST |
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| 9:30 – 10:30 13:00 – 14:00 |
The Ducler Collection of Manuscripts (BnF)
Emmanuel FRANCIS CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564 |
| 10:30 – 11:30 14:00 – 15:00 |
Of BL-EAP 1294 and paratextual material
Suganya ANANDAKICHENIN Universität Hamburg |
| 11:30 – 12:30 15:00 – 16:00 |
Recent advancements in the analysis of colophons
Giovanni CIOTTI Universität Hamburg |
| 12:30 – 14:00 16:00 – 17:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 – 15:00 17:30 – 18:30 |
Tamil methods for the representation of large numbers, as attested in manuscript BnF Indien 203
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot |
| 15:00 – 16:00 18:30 – 19:30 |
Networks and battlegrounds in the margins of the Amarakoṣa
Charles LI CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564 |
| 16:00 – 17:00 19:30 – 20:30 |
A Collection Between Libraries: the Hodgson Manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Bodleian Library, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the British Library
Camillo FORMIGATTI Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford |
For presentation abstracts, see the PDF version of the programme.
OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Charles Li (September 27, 2021). The 2nd TST workshop, 7-8 October 2021. Texts Surrounding Texts. Retrieved August 18, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/uxzp


