Olga Serbaeva’s Conferences & Workshops
Selection from 2007 onwards
2007a "The Category of Altered States of Consciousness in Medieval Śaiva Tantric Texts and Its Modern European Conceptualisation". Presentation of the Habilitation research project, UFSP "Asien und Europa", University of Zurich, 10.04.2007.
2007b "Le Yoga selon les Yoginīs dans les textes indiens médievaux". Conference organised by Ramchandra Mission, Lausanne, 12.05.2007.
2007c "Initiation and altered states of consciousness as described in śaiva tantric texts". Presented at the research colloquium organised by Prof. Dr. Peter Schreiner, 08.11.2007.
2007d "Les tantras shivaïtes en Inde médiévale" Cycle of conferences organized by the University of Geneva and called "Bonheur, malheur – quelle gestion par les religions ?", 29.11.2007.
2008a "Mandalas - Bilder von Göttern oder Einblicke in das Selbst?" Presentation for Parcours des Wissens dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the University of Zurich. 8-16.03.2008.
2008b "Liberation in Life and after Death in early Śaiva Mantramārgic texts". Presented at the conference "Erlöst leben - oder sterben, um befreit zu werden?" 1-4.05.2008, Indology, University of Zurich.
2008c "Translation and Transcreation". Presented at the Working Group Seminar, UFSP "Asia and Europe," University of Zurich, 13.05.2008.
2008d "When to kill means to liberate: two types of rituals in Vidyāpīṭha texts". Presented at the International conference "Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual", Heidelberg, Germany, 29.09.-2.10.2008.
2009a "The possibility of Asia-centric approach to the esoteric material". Presented at the Working Group Seminar, UFSP "Asia and Europe", University of Zurich, 14.04.2009.
2009b "The problematic concepts of "Western" and "Eastern" Esotericism[s] and the possibility of Asia-centric approach". Presented at the Seminar of UFSP "Asia and Europe", University of Zurich, at Wildhaus, 11.06.2009.
2009c "Mudrās in the Jayadrathayāmala, from objects to the state of Bhairava". Presented at the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 1-5.09.2009.
2009d "Computer-assisted textual comparison". Presentation of a research project at the department of Indology, University of Zurich, 29.09.2009.
2009e "Āveśa, or "possession" in the academic and non-academic representations of the end of the 19th-beginning of the 20th century". Presented at the Working Group Seminar, UFSP "Asia and Europe,” University of Zurich, 15.12.2009.
2010a "Les mudrās tantriques en tant que moyen pour provoquer la possession". Invited presentation at Sorbonne, Paris, 11.01.2010, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Lyne Bansat-Boudon.
2010b "Wilhelm Halbfass and the issue of personal religious experience in Indian shaiva tantric traditions". Presented at the Working Group Seminar, UFSP "Asia and Europe", University of Zurich, 11.05.2010
2011c "Brief description of the program SANSKRIT_PARALLELS and the presentation of the preliminary results obtained with it". Invited presentation at the Workshop “Festival of India” 2011: Information Technologies and Innovation in Sanskrit-Based Indian Studies, March 25–26, 2011, at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies Universitätscampus, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.1, 1090 Vienna.
2011d "The Place and Role of Śaiva Tantric Texts in Early Mediaeval Indian Literature, with Particular Reference to the Purāṇas: A Reassessment Based on the Computer-Assisted Statistical Analysis of Textual Parallels and Indexes". Invited presentation at the Workshop (“Festival of India” 2011), ibid.
2011e "The varieties of melaka in the Jayadrathayāmala". Invited presentation at the conference "Śākta traditions: History, doctrine, and practice", Oxford (UK), Somerville college, 10th-11th September 2011.
2012a "La sexualité dans l’Hindouisme". Presentation, a part of the series "A vue d'Esprit : "Sacrée Sexualité"", registered le 25.02.2012, diffused 6.03.2012, 10h30-11h00. (Espace 2, www.esprit.rsr.ch), http://www.rts.ch/services/recherche/?q=serbaeva (29 min. environ). Some passages were rediffused 01.04.2012 at 20.00-21.00 at "Hautes Frequences", (http://www.rts.ch/services/recherche/?q=serbaeva)
2012b "Subtle body in the śaiva tantric traditions". Presented at the University of Zürich, Abt. Indologie, 23.10.2012, at the seminar chaired by Dr. Dagmar Wujastyk.
2013 "Questioning the Gods: Practices of Provoked Oracular Possession in the Vidyāpīṭha Tantras". Presented at the conference « Aspects of Fate and Freedom in Indian Traditions», December 4-5, 2013, Erlangen, Germany. Conference being a part of the research project « Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungs-strategien in Ostasien und Europa », Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg.
2014 "Tantric Horrors in medieval Indian Literature - The Places of Fear : Temples of the Goddess and Cremation Grounds” Presented at ECSAS 2014, University of Zurich 23.-26. July 2014 ; Panel 46: Horror and the Uncanny in South Asian Literatures and Film; Convenors: Hans Harder (University of Heidelberg) Angelika Malinar (University of Zurich).
2016a Workshop organisation and presentation "Vidyāpīṭha corpus and the Abhidhānottaratantra: textual parallels". Presented at the 1st Zurich International Conference on the Indian Literature and Philosophy (ZICILP) "Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras", University of Zurich.
2016b "Killing the Seven-times-born: Saptajanmapaśu in Śaiva Traditions and in the Abhidhānottara". Presented at the 1st Zurich International Conference on the Indian Literature and Philosophy (ZICILP) "Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras", University of Zurich.
2016c "Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras", University of Zurich, 19-20 February 2016. Organisation (with Prof. Dr. Angelika Malinar) of 1st Zurich International Conference on the Indian Literature and Philosophy (ZICILP)
2017 "Theosophists on yoga and dharma". Presented at "Yoga conference", University of Lausanne (Organisation: Prof. Dr. Maya Burger). Invited presentation.
2019 "Calligraphy of Masaaki Hatsumi" Documents, including translations from Japanese for an exhibition organised by Pietro Luca, JunShinRyū Dōjō, Bujinkan. Exhibition took place at Iko Miki, Zurich.
2020a O. Serbaeva (Zurich, UZH) and J. Thomann (Zurich, UZH): "A Possible Origin of the "Sesame Open"-Motif and its Later Transformations" Presented at "New Perspectives on the "Orphan Stories" in the One Thousand and One Nights", International Workshop, February 28–29, 2020. University of Zurich, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies.
2020b "From Sanskrit manuscripts to automatised text analysis", Research Seminar of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer, University of Basel, 2020.10.06. (by zoom)
2020c Lukas Rosenthaler, Vera Chiquet, Olga Serbaeva and Jan Clemens Stoffregen (DaSCH, Basel), "The DaSCH a Swiss Research Infrastructure in Humanities and a Study Case: Inseri as Potential VRE for Manuscripts-Related Academic Projects", Presented at "Virtual Research Environments and Ancient Manuscripts" 10-11 September, 2020. University of Lausanne. (by zoom)
2020d (with Hans Cools and Jan Clemens Stoffregen) "Inseri as an innovative IT framework for the projects in Humanities". Presented at NIE-INE Conference, 2020.11.26-27, University of Basel. (by zoom).
2020e "Inseri as an IT framework for a manuscript project". Presented at NIE-INE Conference, 2020.11.26-27, University of Basel. (by zoom)
2020f "Early RDF implementation: Sanskrit Manuscripts Project". Presented at NIE-INE Conference, 2020.11.26-27, University of Basel. (by zoom)
2021a "Yoga of the Yoginīs: Advanced Level", SOAS, 2021.03.24, invited presentation. (by zoom). Description
2021b "Practical SWT: two use cases", 14.05.2021, in memory of Hans Cools. Replacement for the lecture of Hans Cools on Semantic Web Technology, University of Zurich. (by zoom).
2021c "READ for solving manuscript riddles: a preliminary study of the manuscripts of the 3rd ṣaṭka of the Jayadrathayāmala" (with Steve White): ICDAR 2021 Workshop on Computational Palaeography, 07.09.2021, Lausanne.
2021d Papas conference: International conference 2-4.10.2021, University of Basel. Presented a sample of Coptic fragments from Papas archive processed in READ.
2022a Presentation of the D-Scribes project, Isabelle Martot-Santaniello, Olga Serbaeva, Journées d’Histoire, Genève, 01.07.2022
2022b "Getting a perfect transcript: application of READ to the unedited Sanskrit manuscripts", 08.10.2022, HTREC 2022, Venice.
2023b "Some features of the 17th century Newārī script: READ-based statistical approach to palaeography", 27-28 June, Data Linking Workshop 2023: Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing – Challenges in the Humanities, Hamburg, CSMC.
2023a "Berlin READ Coptic Tutorial", 10-11 January 2023, Humbold University and Freie University, Berlin.
2023c "ICDAR 2023 Competition on Detection and Recognition of Greek Letters on Papyri", Mathias Seuret, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Stephen A. White, Olga Serbaeva, Selaudin Agolli, Guillaume Carrière, Dalia Rodriguez-Salas and Vincent Christlein, 23 August, Poster-presentation. https://icdar2023.org/program/sessions/
2024a "Egrapsa: analysing ancient handwriting on papyri in Nodegoat", University of Bern, 5.06.2024. https://www.dh.unibe.ch/dienstleistungen/nodegoat_go/workshop_fs_2024_nodegoat_day_2024/index_ger.html
2024c "Nodegoat - a database and a VRE for Digital Humanities and why to use it". DH workshop organised by Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, 13.11.2024.
2024b "READ Demonstration" at Workshop "Proto-Śāradā Project" in Würzburg, 5./6.11.2024.
2024d "NER for Digital Editions using AI: from Dataset Construction to Automatic Tagging", presented at "Conversations on Digital Scholarly Editing", organized by Martina Dello Buono and Florinda De Simini, "Digital Tools and Language Resources for Writing the History of South Asia MUR Project", in collaboration with ERC Horizon 2020 Śivadharma Project.
2025a "Nidhi (treasure) in the Jayadrathayāmala, a 10th, century tantric compendium from Kashmir", presented at "Treasure Seminar (6th Series)", organized by Robert Mayer, Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, on the 26.02.2025, by zoom. Link to the video. Link to the seminar: https://thsc.web.ox.ac.uk/treasure-seminar-series