Symposium

Amṛta: Between Myth and Materiality – A Symposium in Honour of Marijke Klokke

Date

Thursday 27 November 2025 - Friday 28 November 2025

Explanation

Various locations

Address

Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden

Programme: Day 1

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

Programme: Day 2

Venue:	Lipsius 1.23
9:00-9:15	Coffee
9:15-9:45	Véronique 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.)
9:45-10:15	Anna Ślączka In Pursuit of Immortality and Health: Jvara, the God of Fever, in Nepal and Tamil Nadu
10:15-10:45	Sandra Sardjono From India to Indonesia: A Rāmāyaṇa Cloth in Ambon
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:00	Marijke Klokke (keynote lecture) From Text to Image: Amṛtamanthana and Other Themes in South and Southeast Asian Art
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-16:30	Visit to Wereldmuseum Leiden
17:00-18:30	Reception - Lobby, Herta Mohr