23 août 2021
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Nandini Chatterjee, « ECSAS conference July 2021 : Magic texts », Lawforms, ID : 10.58079/qqwa
Reported by Nandini Chatterjee The European Association for South Asian Studies had postponed its annual conference of 2020. It was held online in July 2021. The Lawforms project organised a panel looking at texts whose meanings, effects and power extended far beyond their actual written content. We decided collectively, with generous scholars externally collaborating with the project, that such texts act as talismans: their compressed texts, symbols and graphics endow them with powers that ...