Olga Serbaeva’s Publications

(ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0103-8284)

Serbaeva2002 “John Breck. The Power of the Word. St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1986. (Translation from English into Russian, analysis, 2001.” In: The Hermeneutics of the Subject. (Germenevtika sub'ekta.) Omsk: Omsk State Pedagogical University Print (OGPU), 21-52. Projet du FNRS (The National Fund for Scientific Research, Switzerland. Grant n. 7 IP 63598 SCOPES 2001-2003) in collaboration with University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Serbaeva2003 Diploma of Specialization in Sciences of Religions (DESS) (Diplôme de spécialisation en Sciences des Religions). Research: "The Feminine Aspect in Krama school of the Non-dualistic Current of the Śaivism of Kashmir". Le titre en français: "L'aspect féminin dans l'école Krama du Śivaïsme non-dualiste du Cachemire."

Serbaeva2006a Ph.D. research at the University of Lausanne, the Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religions. "Yoginīs in Śaiva Purāṇas and Tantras: Their role in transformative experiences in a historical and comparative perspective" submitted 03.07.2006. Contains translation of the Tantrasadbhāva, chapter 16.

Serbaeva2006b "Les yoginīs et le problème de genre dans les textes de Trika et de Kālīkula." In: DIHSR. La Lettre d'Information, n. 17, Decembre 2006, p. 3-7.

Serbaeva2007a "Review. Miranda Shaw, Buddhist Goddesses of India - Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press 2006. (xi + 571 p.) ISBN 0-691-12758-1 (hardback)", in : Numen, 54, 361-366.

Serbaeva2007b "La Bhagavad-Gītā, une introduction." In: Raja Yoga. Histoire et tradition. Coffret de 7 volumes. Infolio Editions. ISBN 2-88474-605-6., vol.1, "L'héritage spirituel de l'Inde" (Des Védas à la Bhagavad-Gita), p. 201-211.

Serbaeva2009a "Śrī Anirvan. Une Introduction."In: Śrī Anirvan. Antara Yoga, Le yoga intérieur. Infolio Editions, 15-31.

Serbaeva2009b "A Tentative Reconstruction of the Relative Chronology of the Śaiva Purāṇic and Śaiva Tantric Texts on the Basis ofthe Yoginī-related Passages." In: Parallels and Comparisons. Proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas, September 2005. Zagreb: Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, 313-348.

Serbaeva2010a "Review Essay: The Serpent of Love Biting Its Western Esoteric Tail. Review of "Hidden Intercourse"." In: Numen 57/2, 231-250.

Serbaeva2010b "Liberation in Life and After Death in Early Śaiva Mantramārgic Texts. The Problem of Jīvanmukti." In: Release from Life - Release in Life. Indian Perspectives on Individual Liberation. Andreas Bigger, Rita Krajnc, Annemarie Mertens, Markus Schüpbach and Heinz Werner Wessler (eds). Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2010, 211-233. "Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens".

Serbaeva2010c "When to Kill Means to Liberate: Two Types of Rituals in Vidyāpīṭha Texts." In: Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, Vol. 1, 65-84.

Serbaeva2012 "A possible feminist reading of the radical early tantras?" In: ROSA 44, Die Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung, 20.02.2012, 27-29.

Serbaeva2013a “Can encounters with yoginīs in the Jayadrathayāmala be described as possession?” In: ‘Yoginī’ in South Asia: Interdisciplinary approaches, ed. by István Keul. London and New York : Routledge, p. 198-212 (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy Series, 9)

Serbaeva2013b “Mudrās.” In: Brill’s encyclopedia of Hinduism, vol.5 / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen(editor-in-chief); associate editors, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan. (Handbook of oriental studies. Section three, India, ISSN 0169-9377; v. 22/5) Leiden, Boston : E.J. Brill, p. 91-99.

Serbaeva2015a "Yoga from Yoginīs' Point of View." In: The Journal of Hindu Studies, 2015:8, p. 245–262; doi:10.1093/jhs/hiv019 https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article/8/2/245/1798400

Serbaeva2015b "The varieties of melaka in the Jayadrathayāmala: some reflections on the terms haṭha and priya." In: Goddess Traditions in Tantric Hinduism: History, practice and doctrine / ed. by Bjarne Wernicke Olesen. Oxon: Routledge, 2016, 51-73. (Routledge studies in tantric traditions).

Serbaeva2016a (co-author) “A Web-Based Database for Drawings of Gods: When the Digitals Go Multicultural.” Dandarova Robert Zhargalma, Dessart Grégory, Serbaeva Olga, Puzdriac Camélia, Khodayarifard Mohammad, Akbari Zardkhaneh Saeed, Zandi Saeid, Petanova Elena, Ladd Kevin L., Brandt Pierre-Yves, 2016. Archiv für Religionspychologie / Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 38 (3) pp. 343-352. Peer-reviewed. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1163/15736121-12341326

Serbaeva2016b (co-author, poster) “Children’s drawings of gods database: development, image processing, text mining.” Cocco Christelle, Dessart Grégory, Serbaeva Olga, Firmenich Damien, Dandarova Robert Zhargalma, Brandt Pierre-Yves, 2016. In: European Data Science Conference. https://www.euads.org/edsc-2016/

Serbaeva2018 (co-author) “Potentialités et difficultés d’un projet en humanités numériques (DH) : confrontation aux outils et réorientations de recherche.” Cocco Christelle, Dessart Grégory, Serbaeva Olga, Brandt Pierre-Yves, Vinck Dominique, Darbellay Frédéric, 2018/04. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 12 (1) pp. NA. Peer-reviewed. https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/12/1/000359/000359.html

Serbaeva2018 (Poster, co-author) “Images at the crossroads between computer vision and the human and social sciences: An inter- and transdisciplinary project of drawings of gods”. Christelle Cocco, Olga Serbaeva, Frédéric Darbellay, Dominique Vinck, Zhargalma Dandarova Robert, Pierre-Yves Brandt. University of Lausanne, University of Geneva, Switzerland. (TD_net, 2018)

Serbaeva2019 (Database, co-author) Brandt, P.-Y., Serbaeva O., Cocco, Ch., Dessart, G., Dandarova Robert, Z., Rivoal, M., 2019, Dessins de dieux [database] (DaSCH), https://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/1/0105.

Serbaeva2019 (review) “Schmitt, Siegfried: Indische Handschriften, Teil 20. Generalregister für die Kataloge indischer und nepalischer Handschriften (VOHD II und XXXIII)." Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018, 500 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-515-12238-2.” In : Asiatische Studien, 2019; 73(4): 927–929.

Serbaeva2021a "Avyapadeśyā: Indefinable Kālī” In: A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: tales of the feminine divine from India and Beyond, ed. by Michael Slouber. University of California Press, 2021:283-300. Real publication date: November 2020. Peer-reviewed.

Contains translation of the Jayadrathayāmala, ṣaṭka 3, chapter 35.

Serbaeva2021b “Tantric transformations of yoga: kuṇḍalinī in the ninth to tenth century” In: Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. Edited by Susanne Newcombe and Karen O’Brien-Kop. London and New York: Routledge, 2021: 102-119. Real publication date: November 2020. Peer-reviewed

Serbaeva2021c (with revisions by Hans Cools, Jan Clemens Stoffregen, and Roberta Padlina) “Inseri as a Potential IT Framework for the Research Projects in Humanities: Use Case of Sanskrit Manuscripts Project”

https://classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/inseri-as-a-potential-it-framework-for-research-projects-in-humanities-the-sanskrit-manuscripts-project-as-a-test-case/

Serbaeva2021d (with Stephen White) “READ for solving manuscript riddles: a preliminary study of the manuscripts of the 3rd ṣaṭka of the Jayadrathayāmala” In: Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5–10, 2021 Proceedings, Part 2. Elisa H. Barney Smith • Umapada Pal (Eds.) Cham: Springer, 2021, pp. 339-348 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 12917) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86159-9_24

Serbaeva2022 “Feeding the Enemy to the Goddess: War Magic in Śaiva Tantric Texts” In: Religions 2002, 13/4, Special Issue dedicted to war, edited by Tsunehiko Sugiki and Akira Nishimura. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/4/278

Contains translation of the Jayadrathayāmala, ṣaṭka 4, chapter 21 and partially chapter 45.

Serbaeva2023a “Brief History of the Database Children’s Drawings of Gods (2015–2019)” In: P.-Y. Brandt et al. (eds.), When Children Draw Gods, New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion 12. Springer: 2023, p. 471-488. Link to the article and the book: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94429-2_18

Serbaeva2023b “Index of the Project Database Images” In: P.-Y. Brandt et al. (eds.), When Children Draw Gods, New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion 12. Springer: 2023, p. 517-560. Link to the index and the book: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94429-2

Serbaeva2023c “Significant Otherness: Reinterpreting Some Well-Known Meetings with the Yoginīs in the Light of Vidyāpīṭha Texts” In: Philippe Bornet und Nadia Cattoni (EDS.), Significant Others, Significant Encounters: Essays on South Asian History and Literature, Heidelberg: HASP, 2023, pp. 29-54. Link to the article: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1155/c16208 and the book: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1155

Serbaeva2023d (co-author) “Stylistic Similarities in Greek Papyri Based on Letter Shapes: A Deep Learning Approach, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Manh Tu Vu, Olga Serbaeva & Marie Beurton-Aimar. In: International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2023, Coustaty, M., Fornés, A. (eds). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14193). Springer, Cham, pp. 307-323. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41498-5_22

Serbaeva2023e (co-author) “ICDAR 2023 Competition on Detection and Recognition of Greek Letters on Papyri”, Mathias Seuret, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Stephen A. White, Olga Serbaeva Saraogi, Selaudin Agolli, Guillaume Carrière, Dalia Rodriguez-Salas & Vincent Christlein. In: Fink, G.A., Jain, R., Kise, K., Zanibbi, R. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2023. ICDAR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14188. Springer, Cham, pp. 498-507. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41679-8_29

Serbaeva2024a (Papyri digital assembly) Gerardin, François, Neitmann, Stephan and Weisser-Gericke, Lucas. "Agoranomische Urkunden aus Philadelpheia (P.Freib. 78 und 79)" In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, vol. 70, no. 1, 2024, pp. 48-77. Reconstructed papyrus is to be found on the page p. 59. Link: https://doi.org/10.1515/apf-2024-700104

Serbaeva2024b (co-author) "ICDAR2023 Competition on Detection and Recognition of Greek Letters on Papyri" Dataset. Marthot-Santaniello, I., Serbaeva, O., White, S., Agolli, S., Seuret, M., Carrière, G., Rodriguez-Salas, D., Christlein, V. Pulished on Zenodo, 2024.09.24. https://zenodo.org/records/13825619

Serbaeva2024c (co-author, poster) KaiRacters: Character-level-based Writer Retrieval for Greek Papyri. Marco Peer, Robert Sablatnig, Olga Serbaeva and Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello. This poster is presented at the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) in Kolkata, India.

Serbaeva2024d (co-author) Marthot-Santaniello, Isabelle and Serbaeva, Olga. "Digital Palaeography of Iliad Papyri, D-scribes Project and the Research Environment for Ancient Documents (READ) Platform". In: Digital Papyrology III: The Digital Critical Edition of Greek Papyri: Issues, Projects, and Perspectives, edited by Nicola Reggiani, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 327-346. Link to the book: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111070162. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111070162-019

Serbaeva2024e Webpage of the project “Drawings of gods”, University of Lausanne: ddd.unil.ch