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The Yoga Studies Symposium: Celebrating 20 Years of Academic Engagement

Twenty years ago, the publication of A History of Modern Yoga by Elizabeth De Michelis set the path for the development of the field of Yoga Studies. This makes it timely to reflect on a current ‘state of the art’, and presents an opportunity to mark this anniversary with a discussion of the most recent books in the field.

Elizabeth De Michelis will join us to introduce and summarise the extensive and diverse body of work that has emerged since the publication of her landmark book. Leading experts in the field of Yoga Studies will then explore their most recent publications with selected discussants, and with the opportunity for audience members to pose questions, in order to highlight and reflect upon the variety of topics that have emerged in recent years. Because the work produced has been so rich, we have limited our selection for the symposium to books published between 2022 and 2024. We will finish with a discussion of upcoming publications and future trajectories for Yoga Studies.

This two-day online symposium (22-23 June) brings together people from all over the world, maximising accessibility by giving a global yoga-interested audience the possibility to interact with the authors, either live or through recordings of proceedings.

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Programme

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Saturday 22 June 2024 - EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF YOGA: ENTANGLEMENTS AND ENCOUNTERS

Daniela Bevilacqua, Lucy May Constantini in conversation with Elizabeth De Michelis INTRODUCTION 9.30 am – 10.00 am

Karen O’Brien-Kop. (2023). The Philosophy of the Yogasūtra: An Introduction. Bloomsbury Introduction to World Philosophies Series. Bloomsbury Academic: London and New York
Discussant: Philipp Maas 10.00 am – 10.40 am

Patricia Sauthoff. 2022. Illness and Immortality: Mantra, Mandala, and Meditation in the Netra Tantra. Oxford University Press. Discussant: David Gordon White 10.40 am – 11.20 am (time in Hong Kong 5.40 pm)

BREAK 11.20 am – 11.40 am

Jürgen Hanneder. 2024. Haṭhapradīpikā Online beta. Discussant: Ruth Westoby 11.40 am – 12.20 am

Mark Singleton (ed). 2023. Yoga and the Traditional Physical Practices of South Asia: Influence, Entanglement and Confrontation. Journal of Yoga Studies. Vol. 4 Discussant: Lucy May Constantini 12.20 am – 1.00 pm

LUNCH BREAK 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm

Jason, Birch. 2024. The Amaraugha and the Amaraughaprabodha of Gorakṣanātha: The Genesis of Haṭha and Rājayoga. EFEO Discussant: Adrián Muñoz 2.30 pm – 3.10 pm (time in Mexico City 7.00 am)

Noémie Verdon. 2024. The Books Sānk and Pātanğal: A Socio-cultural History of al-Bīrūnī’s Interpretations of Sāṅkhya and Yoga. Brill. Discussant: Jean Arzoumanov 3.10 pm – 3.50 pm (time in Chicago 9.10 am)

BREAK 3.50 pm – 4.10 pm

Carl Ernst, Patrick D’Silva. 2024. Breathtaking Revelations: The Science of Breath from The Fifty Kamarupa Verses to Hazrat Inayat Khan. Omega Publications Discussant: Supriya Gandhi 4.10 pm – 4.50 pm (time in New York 11.10 am; Colorado 9.10 am)

Keith E. Cantú. 2023. Like a Tree Universally Spread, Sri Sabhapati Swami and Śivarājayoga. Oxford University Press.
Discussant: Raphaël Voix 4.50 pm – 5.30 pm (time in New york 11.50 am)

Sunday 23 June 2024 - YOGA IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

Shameem Black. 2023 Flexible India. Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions. Columbia University Press.
Discussant: Karen-Anne Wong 10.00 am – 10.40 am (time in Australia 7.00 pm)

Christopher, J. Miller. 2024. Embodying Transnational Yoga. Eating, Singing and Breathing in Transformation. Routledge.
Discussant: Jonathan Dickstein 10.40 am – 11.20 am

BREAK 11.20 am – 11.40 am

Koonal Duggal (ed.) 2023. Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital. UCL Press. London
Discussant: Vera Lazzaretti 11.40 am – 12.20 am

Bevilacqua, Daniela. 2024. From Tapas to Modern Yoga. Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices. Equinox.
Discussant: Joseph Alter 12.20 am – 1.00 pm (time in US East Coast 7.20 am)

LUNCH BREAK 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm

Laura von Ostrowski. 2023 Ein Text in Bewegung. Das Yogasūtra als Praxiselement im Ashtanga Yoga. OLMS.
Discussant: Borayin Larios 2.30 pm – 3.10 pm

Matylda Ciołkosz. 2022. Thinking in Āsana. Movement and Philosophy in Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga. Equinox. Discussant: Suzanne Newcombe 3.10 pm – 3.50 pm

ROUNDTABLE AND CLOSING REMARKS 3.50 pm – 4.30 pm

For each presentation:
5 mns: discussant introduces the book
20 mns: questions from discussant to author
15 mns: discussion opens to floor

Date

22/06/2024 - 23/06/2024 , 09:30-16:30

Localization

Online

Organization

Daniela Bevilacqua (CRIA-Iscte, Lisbon, Portugal) | Lucy May Constantini (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)

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