REGISTRATION: Sessions marked with + (Keynote address on Thursday 9 to 10.30 am, and the whole Friday program) can be attended remotely upon registration via urbrel-conf@uni-erfurt.de
Programme
WEDSNESDAY, 07 JULY 2021
From 16:00 onwards Registration & Exhibition visit
THURSDAY, 08 JULY 2021
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome note by Sara Keller+
9:15 – 10:30 Keynote address by Bertrand Sajaloli on “Water and the sacred: which spatial mediations?” (joint contribution by Bertrand Sajaloli and Etienne Grésillon). Presentation followed by discussion.+
10:30 – 11:00 Tea break
11:00 – 12:15 Group work on Panel I: Inconsistent resources. Water as a determining factor of urbanity
12:15 – 13:30 Group work on Panel II: Providing access. Religion as agent of water availability / Infrastructural solutions and their limitations
13:30 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:00 Group work on Panel III: Restricting access. Cultural and normative deficiencies / Impact of social and religious context
16:00 – 16:30 Tea break
16:30– 19:00 Excursion at the Petersberg and its medieval water system
19:30 Dinner at Augustinerkloster
FRIDAY, 09 JULY 2021
9:00 – 10:00 Short presentation of the papers+
10:00 – 11:00 Presentation of group work results+
11:00 – 11:30 Tea break
11:30 – 12:15 Discussion 1: Sources and methodology+
Chair: Susanne Rau
12:15 – 13:00 Discussion 2: Themes: overlapping, gaps, perspectives.+
Chair: Martin Fuchs
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
CONTRIBUTIONS
Akil Amiraly: “From the tap to the cistern, the difficult reappropriation of an ancient technical knowledge: Rainwater harvesting in Ahmedabad”
Julia Hegewald: “Dependency on Water and the South Asian City: Questions of Location, Urban Planning and Architectural Design”
Jutta Jain-Neubauer: “Urbanization and Waterscapes: Patronage, Power and Religion in pre-modern Northern and Western India”
Padma Sunder Joshi: “Peeping into the Traditional Water Wisdom in Nepal Mandal”
Sara Keller: “Releasing temple gold. Spatial fix in medieval Saurashtra through water epigraphy”
Vrushti Mawani: “Discursive co-articulations of ‘being illegal’ and ‘being Muslim’”
Nicolas Morelle: “Water supply in Deccan Forts of India: the Naldurg case (14th-17th century)”
Heather O’Leary: “The Moral Construction of the Hydro-Social Subject: Water exchange and conduits of purity in contemporary Delhi”
Bertrand Sajaloli and Etienne Grésillon: “Water and the sacred: which spatial mediations?”
Yogesh Sharma: “Accessibility to water sources in urban centres in pre-modern India”
Julia Shaw: “Cities, land and water in early-historic South Asia: upland-lowland interactions, and monastic versus state-level governmentalities”
Prakhar Vidyarthi: “Water and Urbanism in Western India: The Navnath temples of Vadodara”
Laura Verdelli: “Customary water management systems and contemporary territorial changes in Tamil Nadu (India)”
EXHIBITION
“Life around Water in India” 07.07. – 08.08.2021
Venue: Cloister of the Augustinerkloster, Erfurt
The conference is part of the DFG-funded Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (FOR 2779). The group is based at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt, Germany. This group analyses the mutual formation of urbanity and religion from antiquity to the present.
It focuses on specific case studies, like Mediterranean or Indian cities of the ancient world, early modern political and religious centres or modern Indian or European towns, but it also introduces more wide-ranging theoretical investigations.