Programme: Day 1

Venue:Herta Mohr 0.02
8:45-9:15Registration and coffee
9:15-9:30Opening Remarks
Gabrielle van den Berg, Academic Director, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
Peter Bisschop & Saran Suebsantwiwongse, organisers
9:30-10:00Ellen Raven
Blends with Purpose: Two Cases of a Hybrid Iconography
10:00-10:30Peter Bisschop
Nectar and Poison: The Amṛtamanthana Myth in the Skandapurāṇa
10:30-11:00William Southworth
The Churning of the Ocean at Angkor Wat
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:00Bernard Arps
Dancing the Water of Immortality at a Javanese Court
12:00-12:30Nur Ahmad
Divine Mercy at the Meeting of the Two Oceans: A Javanese Sufi Perspective
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-17:00Special Collections Visit – Vossius Room, University Library

Programme: Day 2

Venue:Lipsius 1.23
9:00-9:15Coffee
9:15-9:45Véronique Degroot (in collaboration with Agustiyanto Indrajaya, Sondang Siregar, Ari Mukti Wardoyo Adi, Yohan Chabot)
Pleasing the Gods, Feeding the People: Water Management around the Bumiayu Temple Complex, South Sumatra (9th – 12th c.)
9:45-10:15Anna Ślączka
In Pursuit of Immortality and Health: Jvara, the God of Fever, in Nepal and Tamil Nadu
10:15-10:45Sandra Sardjono
From India to Indonesia: A Rāmāyaṇa Cloth in Ambon
10:45-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-12:00Marijke Klokke (keynote lecture)
From Text to Image: Amṛtamanthana and Other Themes in South and Southeast Asian Art
12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-16:30Visit to Wereldmuseum Leiden
17:00-18:30Reception – Lobby, Herta Mohr