Research Group

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Jonathan D. Victor

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Weill Cornell Medical College
Jonathan is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College. His research interests are neural coding, visual cortex, large-scale brain dynamics, and information theory.
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Joshua Levinson

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joshua is a professor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: narrative theory and hermeneutics; Rabbinic literature; and the rewritten Bible.

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Warren Woodfin

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Queens College
Warren Woodfin is Kallinikeion Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Queens College, where he holds joint appointments in the Departments of History and Art History.

Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry: Innovations and Turning Points

[RG #94] Toward a History of Sanskrit Poetry: Innovations and Turning Points

September 1, 2003 - August 31, 2004

Organizer:

Yigal Bronner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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It is quite amazing that no proper history exists for Sanskrit belles lettres, one of the world's richest and longest literary traditions. The scholarship of the last two and a half centuries yielded, for the most part, a vast body of data on authors and their putative dates. But it failed to produce a narrative explaining developments in their poetic practice and, quite often, denied outright the very possibility of change. Indeed, the number of serious and analytical essays on representative works from the Sanskritic canon is unbelievably small. The main purpose of our research group is to begin to emend this state of affairs and produce a history of Sanskrit literature, one that, contrary to the antihistorical notion of it as monolithic and immune to change, would concentrate on innovations and turning points.

 

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Marcel Holyoak

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UC Davis
Marcel is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at University of California, Davis. His research interests are population and community ecology.
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Jan Plefka

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Humboldt University
Jan Plefka is a professor at the Institute of Physics, Humboldt University, Germany. His research interests are quantum field theory, string theory, statistical mechanics, matrix models, integrability, and AdS/CFT correspondence.