Speakers
1 ALTER, JOSEPH S.
(University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
“Indian Yoga and German Nature Cure: Parochial Philosophies,
Prāṇāyāma and the Provincialization of Modernity”
2 AMALADASS, ANAND
(Sacred Heart College, Chennai, India)
“Christian Response to Yoga”
3 BAIER, KARL
(University of Vienna, Austria)
“Yoga and the Viennese Occult Revival”
4 BAKER, IAN
(University College London, U.K.)
Yogic Practice in Tibetan Buddhism as Revealed in Pema Lingpa's "Secret Key to Channels, Winds, and Inner Essences"
5 BIRCH, JASON
(Oxford University, U.K.)
“Unpublished Manuscript Evidence for the Practice of Many Āsanas in the 17th/18th Centuries”
6 BÜHNEMANN, GUDRUN
(The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Nāga, Siddha and Sage: Tracing the Development of Patañjali's Iconography”
7 BURGER, MAYA
(University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
“Sāṃkhya Interpretation in a Transnational Perspective: Śrī Anirvāṇa and Lizelle Reymond”
8 HAUSER, BEATRIX
(Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
“Bodily Practices from Afar: Global Flows and Cultural Interferences in Postural
Yoga”
9 KOCH, ANNE
(University of Munich, Germany)
“ ‘It’s Time to Give Back!’ Competitive Charity in Today’s Global Yoga”
10 MAAS, PHILIPP A.
(University of Vienna, Austria)
“On Postures in the Pātañjala Yogaśāstra”
11 MALLINSON, JAMES
(Oxford University, U.K.)
“Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajroli Mudrā?”
12 NANDA, MEERA
(Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Chandigarh, India)
“Pseudoscience and Resemblance Thinking in the Construction of Modern Yoga”
13 NEWCOMBE, SUZANNE
(Inform, based at the London School of Economics, U.K.)
“Spaces for Yoga”
14 RASTELLI, MARION
(Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
“Yoga in the Daily Routine of the Pāñcarātrins”
15 SINGLETON, MARK
(St. John’s College, New Mexico, U.S.A.)
“Evaluating Modern Yoga and its Relationship to the Past”
16 VERDON, NOÉMIE
(University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
“Bīrūnī's Choices of Interpretation and Methods in His Kitāb Pātanjal”
17 WHITE, DAVID
(University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
“‘Classical Yoga’? The Fall and Rise of the Yoga Sūtras”
18 WUJASTYK, DOMINIK
(University of Vienna, Austria)
“Some Problematic Yoga Sūtras and their Buddhist Background”
Presentation of BDY, Professional Association of Yoga Teachers, Germany:
WEBER HANS-JÖRG
"BDY and the Situation of Yoga Teachers in Germany"
