One Year PG Diploma in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics

The Department of Sanskrit Studies of the University of Hyderabad introduces a new programme “P.G. Diploma in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics” under the Innovative Scheme of UGC from 2014–15.
GOAL: To train Sanskrit scholars in the emerging field of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics showing the relevance of Indian grammatical theories to the field of Computational Linguistics, thereby bridging the gap between the past and the present.

Where are the Yoga philosophers?

Today I read in Philipp Maas’s contribution to Periodization and Historiography of Indian Philosophy (edited by Eli Franco) an intriguing critique of Colebrook and of all the Indologists who, seemingly following him, thought that there was nothing philosophical in Yoga apart from its Sāṅkhya component and that what was typical of Yoga alone was not philosophical.

Habilitation in Italy

In case you were wondering… after many months the first results of the first Italian “Habilitation” examinations are starting to be published. Of direct interest for the readers of this blog might be, among others, the results of Clelia Bartoli, Chiara Letizia, Federico Squarcini, Alessandro Saggiori (all positively evaluated), Enrica Garzilli…