5th International Conference of Oriental Studies –
Concepts, Methods, Challenges and Perspectives
17-18 October 2016
Brudziński Hall, University of Warsaw
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
organized by Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
Brudziński Hall, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
17 October 2016
(10.30-11.30 meeting of the Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
12.00 Opening: Marek Mejor, Agata Bareja-Starzyńska – Welcome address
Piotr Taracha – Opening speech
Session I
12.20 Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz (Cracow) Studying Indian Religions – Concepts and
Directions
12.40 Monika Nowakowska (Warsaw) Interpretations of a Sūtra – the Thing is What
13.00 Renata Rusek-Kowalska (Cracow) Poetics of Experience on the Example of Persian
Carceral Narratives
13.20 Kyong-geun Oh, Aleksandra Matulewska, Daria Zozula (Poznań) Expressing Obligation,
Prohibition and Permission in Korean, Indonesian, English and Polish Legal Texts:
Comparative Analysis of Selected Aspects of Deontic Modality in Statutory
Instruments
13.40 DISCUSSION
14.00-15.00 LUNCH BREAK
Session II
15.00 Marcin Michalski (Poznań) Describing Written Moroccan Arabic: Selected Problems
15.20 Jamila Oueslati, Jerzy Bańczerowski (Poznań) Towards a Theory of Tense in Tunisian
Arabic
15.40 Joanna Grzybek (Cracow) One Language, Two Systems. Comparative Analysis of
Significators Conveying the Deontic Meaning of Permission in Legal Language of
China and Taiwan
16.00 Szymon Grzelak (Poznań) Scalar Structure of Japanese Discourse Markers
16.20-16.40 DISCUSSION
16.40-17.00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
Session III
17.00 Joanna M. Guzik (Cracow) The New Japanese Civil Society after Fukushima 2011
17.20 Daniel Wolniewicz-Slomka (Warsaw) Research in a “Besieged” Society – Lessons from
Encounters with Security Forces during Research in Israel
17.40 Angelika Adamczyk Marta Dudzik-Rudkowska (Warsaw) Modern Hebrew for Modern
Students. Meeting 21st Century Students’ Expectations in Designing Teaching
Methodology
18.00-18.20 DISCUSSION
18 October 2016
Session I
9.30 Minutes for the organizers
9.40 Elliot Sperling (Vienna) China’s Relationship with Tibet: The Sea and the Frontier
10.00 Petra Maurer (Munich) How to Draw One’s Destiny. Thangkas on Tibetan-Chinese
divination
10.20 Nathan W. Hill (London) A new look at Bailang, the Second Oldest Sino-Tibetan
Language
10.40 Joanna Białek (Munich) How to read compounds in Tibetan? A few case studies from
Old Tibetan
11.00 Thupten Kunga Chashab (Warsaw) Metrical System of the 16th Century Guide to Shamhala
by Ngag dbang ’jig grags – General Overview
11.20 -11.40 DISCUSSION
11.40-12.00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
Session II
12.00 Brian Baumann (Berkeley) The Illumination of the Mind: a Sa skya pa Buddhist Treatise
on Salvation in Pre-Classical Mongolian Verse
12.20. Mathew King (Riverside) Rescuing Inner Asian History From the Nation?: Historical
Anthropology, Inner Asian Buddhism, and Qing Legacies After the Qing
12.40 Raya Schifferle (Bern) Mapping Mongolian Buddhist Discourses of Social Mobilities:
Isidanzanvangil, a Mongolian Buddhist Intellectual and His “Golden Teaching” (Altan surγal) on the Eve of the Collapse of the Qing Empire
14.00-15.00 LUNCH
Session III
15.00 Agata S. Nalborczyk (Warsaw) Methodology and Challenges in the Study of Muslim
Minorities in Europe Europe – from the Perspective of Oriental Studies
15.20 Jekaterina Merkuljeva (Vilnius) About the Muslims of Central Europe
15.40 Viačeslav Černev (Warsaw) Language via the Brain: A Sketch of Language Instruction
and Acquisition Problems with regards to the Turkic Minority Languages
16.00 Bilegsaikhan Tamirjav (Ulan Bator, Warsaw) Some Aspects of ovoo Worship among the
Dariganga Mongols
16.20 Paweł Szczap (Warsaw) Studies on Ulaanbaatar – Problems, Perspectives and Areas of
Scholarly Interest
16.40-17.00 DISCUSSION
17.00-17.20 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
17.30 Closing of the conference