The Pañcatantra Across Cultures and Pañcatantra and the Indian Narrative Coffee Break: 11:00-11:30 Disciplines Tradition II (14:30-16:00) Conference Schedule Kamleshdatta Tripathi, Varanasi: Pañcatantra in Central and Western Saxon Academy of Sciences Pañcatantra: Text, Orality and Folklore Asia I (11:30-13:00) , Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1 Jens Wilkens, Göttingen: McComas Taylor, Canberra: A Tale from the Pañcatantra in Central 27 th September, 2012 How Discourse Becomes ‘Truth’: Textual Asia Registration 9:30-10:00 Strategies in P ūrṇabhadra’s Pañcatantra Opening Session: 10.00-11.00 Christine van Ruymbeke, Cambridge: Welcome addresses by representatives Coffee Break 16:00-16:30 Anvar-es Sohayli: A Fifteenth-Century of Leipzig University, The Saxon Persian Prose Rewriting of the Animal Academy of Sciences, the Mayoralty of Pañcatantra and the Indian Narrative Fables Leipzig and the ICCR Tradition III (16:30-18:00) Radhavallabh Tripathi, Varanasi: Lunch Break: 13:00-14:30 Introductory lecture Pañcatantra and the Tradition of Eli Franco, Leipzig: Bṛhatkath ā: Their Intercourse on the Pañcatantra in Central and Western In Search of the Ur-Pañcatantra. Flying Machines Asia II (14:30-16:00) The Life and Work of Johannes Hertel Hans Joerg Doehla, Kirkel-Neuhäusel/ Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, Varanasi: Zürich: Coffee Break 11:00-11:30 Pañcatantra and Modern Sanskrit The Concept of n īti and the Art of Literature Narrating in the Tantr ākhy āyika, the Pañcatantra and the Indian Narrative Syriac Kalilag-w-Damnag and the Arabic Tradition I (11:30-13:00) Buffet Reception 18:30-21:00 Kalila wa-Dimna: A Loss of Thematic Nalini Balbir, Paris: and Formal Coherence? Pañcatantra Stories Among Jains: 28 th September, 2012 Versions, Peculiarities and Usages Pañcatantra and the Indian Scholarly Maria Schetelich, Leipzig: Tradition (9:30-11:00) Tantr ākhy āyika, Kau ṭil īya Artha śā stra C. Rajendran, Calicut: , Texas: and the Nature of “Indian Wisdom” in Wit and humour in the Pañcatantra: A Pañcatantra as a N īti śā stra and its Ferdausi’s Shahnama study in the Malayalam adaptation of Relation to Kau ṭilya’s Artha śāstra Kuncan Nambiar City Tour guided by Maria Schetelich Gaya Charan Tripathi, New Delhi: 16:15-18:30 Lunch Break 13:00-14:30 Examining the Validity of the Statement of the Author of Pañcatantra on its Sources 29 th September, 2012 Coffee Break: 16:00-16:30 Pañcatantra in Europe I (9:30-11:00) Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis, Berlin: Pañcatantra in the Visual arts II On the Greek Translations of the Kalilah- (16:30-18:00) wa-Dimna Monika Zin, München/ Berlin: The Sogdian Paintings of the Sabine Obermaier, Mainz: Pañcatantra Tales Changing Fable Fauna: From Pañcatantra to Anton von Pforr’s Buch Ramsay Wood, London: der Beispiele How to Make a Film for this Symposium in English with Three Kalila and Dimna Coffee Break: 11:00-11:30 Storytellers

Pañcatantra in Europe II (11:30-13:00) 18:00-19:00 Philipp Maas, Wien: Animation Film in Sanskrit Based on Vi ṣṇ u in Venice –The Marvellous Pañcatantra Stories Transformations of a Sanskrit Narrative Produced by Rashtriya Sanskrit in India and Italy Sansthan, New Delhi

Dermot Killingley, Newcastle-on-Tyne: 19:00 Closing Session Edwin Arnold’s Translation of the Hitopade śa

Lunch Break 13:00-14:30

Pañcatantra in the Visual arts I (14:30- 16:00) Katia Légeret, Paris: The Pañcatantra in the Fables of : Comparative Aesthetics

Ramchandran Nagaswamy, Chennai: Pañcatantra in Indian Sculptures and Art with Special reference to South India