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| Day 1: Friday, November 8th | ||
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcoming Session | |
| Section 1: Crises in the Epic Literature. | ||
| 9:15-10:00 | Giacomo Benedetti:The great 12-years drought and its consequences in Epic and Puranic tradition | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Adam Bowles: Social crises and their theorising: the mixing of social classes and norms in the Mahābhārata | |
| — Break — | ||
| Section 2: Protective Spells in Brahmanism and Buddhism | ||
| 11:15-12:00 | Anthony Keller: Diseases and their ritual treatments in the Kauśika-Sūtra | |
| 12:00-12:45 | Francesco Bianchini: Communal well-being and safety in selected dhāraṇī sources | |
| — Lunch Break — | ||
| 14:15-15:00 | Daisy Sze Yui Cheung: Protecting the state by means of a sūtra: the ritual use of the Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra against calamities | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Patrick Zeitlhuber: The Significance of the Ratanasutta as a Countermeasure against the Plague in Vaiśālī | |
| — Break — | ||
| Section 3: Communal Medicine Against Diverse Plagues | ||
| 16:15–17:00 | Matthew Robertson: The Divine Element in Early Ayurvedic Epidemiology | |
| 17:00–17:45 | Dominik Wujastyk: Surviving Snakes, Rats, Scorpions and Spiders | |
| — Workshop Dinner — | ||
Day 2: Saturday, November 9th | ||
| Section 3: Dealing with Disasters | ||
| 09:15-10:00 | Vitus Angermeier: Whatever helps. Modes of reaction towards calamities in the Arthaśāstra | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Liqun Zhou: Divination and Earthquakes in Pre-modern India: The Case of the Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna | |
| — Break — | ||
| 11:15-12:00 | Eugen Ciurtin: The Early South Asian Seismic Risk | |
| 12:00-12:45 | Saarthak Singh & Daniela De Simone: Destruction, desertion, ruin and restoration: Earthquake impact on medieval monuments in central India | |
| — Lunch Break — | ||
| Section 4: On the Crossroads of Health and Religion | ||
| 14:15-15:00 | Julia Shaw: Monastic Landscapes, Urbanism, and Ecological Public Health: An Archaeological Perspective | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Federico Divino: “The World is Ablaze”: Unraveling Buddhist Ascetic conception of Catastrophes and ‘Therapeutic’ Apocalypse | |
| — Break — | ||
| 16:15-17:00 | Gudrun Melzer: The iconography of disease-eradicating deities in South Asia before the thirteenth century: An overview | |
| 17:00–17:30 | Concluding session: Recap of the workshop, outlook on the proceedings | |