Second Rajasthani Summer School – June 19-25, 2024

Venue: Jain Vishva Bharati, Ladnun, India

The Rajasthani Bhasha Academy in association with the Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin is organizing the Second Rajasthani Summer School at the Jain Vishva Bharati Institute in the historic town of Ladnun, from the 19th-25th June, 2024.

This Summer School involves intensive and interactive reading workshops, field trips, guest lectures and ethnographic exercises. The Academy places a centrality on language in its programs to enable scholars to access the archives in Rajasthani—both tangible and intangible– in the course of their work.

This year, the workshops are stitched around the broad theme of ‘Religion’. The texts being covered will range from the 8th to the 19th centuries, on areas such as poetics, war chronicles, urban histories as well as religious literature. Kuvalayamala (8th century), Kumarpala Charita (12th century), Satinama (16th century), Chhatrapati Raso (17th century) and Raghunath Rupak (19th century)  are some of the texts we will read. Field trips are planned to conduct studies of haveli frescoes from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries along with ethnographic studies of musician and artisan communities, and local shrines.

Faculty members include Prof. Dalpat Rajpurohit (UT Austin), Prof. Dipti Khera (New York University), Prof Saumya Agarwal (OP Jindal Global University), Mukesh Kulriya (University of California at Los Angeles), Dr. Nitin Goyal (Director, Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner), Prof. Gajadan Charan (GHS Government College, Sujangarh), Prof. Ayla Joncheere (IIT Jodhpur) and Samani Sangeetpragya (Jain Vishva Bharati Institute). 

For further details, please write to us at contact@rajasthanibhashaacademy.org.