Prof. Dr. Eva Wilden

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Universität Hamburg

Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets

Warburgstraße 26

20354 Hamburg

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CSMC

Raum: 5017

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Kontakt

Tel.: +49 40 42838-9417

Fax: +49 40 42838-13915

E-Mail: eva.wilden"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Schwerpunkte

Classical Tamil Literature and Poetics, interaction between Tamil and Sanskrit; manuscript studies

Area (Arbeitsgebiet)

Classical Tamil Literature and Poetics, interaction between Tamil and Sanskrit; manuscript studies

Curriculum Vitae

June 2017-	Professor for Tamilistics and Manuscript Studies, Asia-Africa-Institute/ Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Department for the Culture and History of India and Tibet, Hamburg University
2014-2016	14/05/15 presidential award “Kural Peetam” for outstanding foreign contributions in the field of Classical Tamil. ERC Advanced Grant NETamil: “Going from Hand to Hand – Networks of Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions”, hosted jointly by the CSMC Hamburg and the EFEO Pondicherry (http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/netamil/index.html).
2011-2013	Since July back to the EFEO, posted at the Pondicherry Centre; external member and PI of a Tamil project at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Sonderforschungsbereich 950; http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/Projekte_p2.html)
2008-2011	July 08 detached from the EFEO (for three years) to collaborate in the Research Group of the SAI Hamburg (”Manuscript cultures in Asia and Africa – Textual Variance in Dependence on the Medium“; DFG-Forschergruppe 963).
2003-2007	Habilitation 21/05/2003; Venia Legendia at University of Hamburg 26/05/2004. Since September 2003 member (maître de conférences) of the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), posted in Pondicherry and Paris.
1997-2002	Two consecutive scholarships for research and Habilitation by the German Research Association.
1992-1996	PhD (magna cum laude) on 6/12/1996: Der Kreislauf der Opfergaben im Veda. Assistant researcher at the Indological Seminar of the University of Hamburg.
1992-1996	19/02/1992 M.A. in Hamburg: Das Opfer als Bindeglied zwischen Göttern und Menschen gemäß den Brāhmaṇas.

Academic Employment and Functions

2015-	Head of the CSMC Project Area A (Paratexts) and board member
2014-	PI of the ERC Advanced Grant NETamil
2007-	Member of the redaction committee of the journal Pandanus
2003-	Organisor of the Classical Tamil Winter/Summer Seminar (a yearly 4-week intensive course of Classical Tamil in Pondicherry now going into its 15th year).
2003-	Head of the Tamil Section at the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO and head of the Caṅkam project

Research Interests

Caṅkam Literature

Ilakkaṇam Literature

Tamil Vaiṣṇava Canon

Manuscript Studies

Publications

Books and Monographs

Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Caṅkam in Tamilnadu. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 3, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, 445pp.
Lieder von Hingabe und Staunen. Gedichte der frühen tamilischen Bhakti. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert von Eva Wilden. Verlag der Weltreligionen, Insel – Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2013, 487pp.
Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Kuṟuntokai + Glossary and Statistics. 3 volumes, EFEO/Tamilmann Patippakam, Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature 2.1-2.3, Chennai 2010.
Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Naṟṟiṇai + Glossary. 3 volumes, EFEO/Tamilmann Patippakam, Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature 1.1-1.3, Chennai 2008.
Literary Techniques in Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: The Kuṟuntokai. Beiträge zur Kenntnis südasiatischer Sprachen und Literaturen 15, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006.

Der Kreislauf der Opfergaben im Veda. [“The Circulation of Sacrificial Gifts in the Veda“] Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien 51, Steiner, Stuttgart 2000.

Articles

“On the Threshold between Legend and History: the Afterlife of a Mackenzie Manuscript.” Manuscript Cultures 8, 2016, pp. 92-98.
“Functions of the Verbal Root in Early Old Tamil Poetry.” In: Nikolai Gordiychuk (ed.), Tamiḻ tanta paricu [felicitation volume for Alexander Dubianski], Orientalia et Classica LXIII, Moscow 2016, p. 124-139.
“Translation and Transcultural Adaptation in a Multi-Lingual Environment: Tamil and Sanskrit Versions of the Tiruviḷaiyāṭaṟpurāṇam.” In: La traduction dans l’histoire des idées linguistiques, ed. by Emilie Aussant, librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris 2015, pp. 93-110.
“Āciriyappā – The Unwritten Rules of Classical Tamil Metre.” BEI 32 (2014) 293-309.
“Usage de la polysemie: uḷḷuṟai et śleṣa dans la poésie tamoule classique.” Études Romanes de Brno 2 (2014) 153-165.
“On the Eight Uses of Palm-leaf – ōlai and ēṭu in the Tamil Literature of the First Millennium.” Manuscript Cultures No 5 (2014) 68-75.
“Nammāḻvār as a Master of tiṇaimayakkam – Transposition Techniques in the Akam Songs of the Tiruvāymoḻi.” In: Valérie Gillet (ed.), Mapping the Chronology of Bhakti. Milestones, Stepping Stone, and Stumbling Stones. Proceedings of a workshop held in honour of Pandit R. Varada Desikan, IFP/EFEO, Collection Indologie 124, Pondichéry 2014, pp. 317-333.
“Ten Stages of Passion (daśa kāmāvasthāḥ) and Eight Types of Marriage (aṣṭavivāha) in the Tolkāppiyam.” In: Cox, W./Vergiani V. (ed.), Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Tamil and Sanskrit in Medieval India. IFP-EFEO, Collection Indologie 121, Pondichéry 2013, pp. 95-114.
“Fidelity Worthy of Mullai: Meta-Poetic Games in Caṅkam Poetry.” Pandanus, Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual 3.2, Prague 2009, pp. 75-85.
“Canonisation of Classical Tamil Texts in the Mirror of the Poetological Commentaries.” In: Eva Wilden (ed.), Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary, Proceeding of a Workshop in Honour of T.V. Gopal Iyer, IFP-EFEO, Collection Indologie 109, Pondichéry 2009, pp. 145-165.
“Depictions of Language and Languages in Early Tamil Literature – How Tamil Became Cool and Straight.” HEL 31.2 (2009) 117-141.
“Definitions of kaḷavu in the Old Poetological Tradition (Tolkāppiyam Poruḷatikāram + Iṟaiyaṉār Akapporuḷ): The Convergence of Interests” Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici (RiSS) 1 (2006) 89-106.
“Agricultural Metaphors in Sangam Literature.” In: Jaroslav Vacek (ed.), Pandanus, Nature in Literature and Ritual, Prague 2006, pp. 191-209.
“On the Condensation and Extension of Knowledge: The Sūtra Style in the Tolkāppiyam Poruḷatikāram”, In: South-Indian Horizons, Pondicherry 2004, pp. 177-206.
“Towards an Internal Chronology of Caṅkam Literature or How to Trace the Laws of a Poetic Universe. A Revision of Herman Tieken’s 'Kāvya in South India'.” Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südostasiens 46 (2003) 105-133.
“Anthropomorphic Nature: The Symbolic Code of Akam Poetry.” In: Jaroslav Vacek and Hana Preinhaelterová (ed.), Pandanus 2002: Nature in Indian Arts and Literature, Prague 2002, pp. 165-186.
“Traditionelle Exegese und methodologische Probleme im Falle alttamilischer Lyrik am Beispiel von Kuṟuntokai 92.“ In: S. Wild/H. Schild (ed.), Akten des 27. Deutschen Orientalistentages. Norm und Abweichung, Ergon Verlag, Würzburg 2001, pp. 217-227.
“The tuṟai-s in Akam lyrics or How to Realize a Classical Tamil Love Poem.” Annali 60-61, Napoli 2000-2001, pp. 353-364.
“The Position of the tuṟai-s in the Poetological Tradition of Caṅkam Literature.” In: Jaroslav Vacek (ed.), Pandanus 2000, Workshop on Natural Symbolism in Indian Literatures, Prague 2000, pp. 263-283.
“Kuṟuntokai An Approach to a Classical Tamil Poem.” Studien zu Indologie und Iranistik 22 (1999) 215-249.

Joint Publications

Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary. Proceedings of a Workshop in Honour of T.V. Gopal Iyer. Ed. par Eva Wilden. EFEO-IFP, Collection Indologie 109, Pondichéry 2009.
South-Indian Horizons, Felicitation Volume for François Gros. Ed. by Chevillard J.-L. (editor), Wilden E. (associate editor) and Murugaiyan A. (collaboration), IFP-EFEO, Publications du Département d'Indologie 94, Pondichéry 2004.

Forthcoming

“The Plurality of God(s) as a Poetic Concept in the Early Tamil Invocation Stanzas.” In: Marcus Schmücker (ed.), Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa: Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions. Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna 2017, pp. 83-112.
“Making Order in the Vaults of Memory: Tamil Satellite Stanzas on the Transmission of Texts.” Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies n. 21 (2017) 1-21.
“Tamil Satellite Stanzas: Genres and Distribution.” In: The South Asian Manuscript Book: Material, Textual and Historical Investigations. Cuneo, Daniele/Formigatti, Camillo/Vergiani, Vincenzo (eds.), Studies in Manuscript Cultures, de Gruyter, Berlin
Grammar of Old Tamil for Students. EFEO-IFP: collection indologie, NETamil series 1, Pondicherry 2017.
A Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation with Glossary of the Akanāṉūṟu; Volume 1-3 – Kaḷiṟṟiyāṉainirai. EFEO-IFP: collection indologie – Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature – 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, Pondicherry 2017.
“Akanāṉūṟu paḻaiyavurai: The Gradual Accumulation of a Commentary.” In: Victor D’Avella/Suganya Anandakichenin (eds.): The Commentary Idioms. EFEO-IFP: collection indologie, Pondicherry 2018.
“The Eight Forms of Marriage (aṣṭavivāha/eṇmaṇam) − From Sanskrit Dharma to Tamil Poetics” In: Giovanni Ciotti/Erin McCann (ed.), Multilingualism, Polyscript: Patterns of Language Interaction in South India, Pondichéry 2018.

Reviews and Other Publications

Reviews

“Review of Rajesh, V.: Manuscripts, Memory and History. Classical Tamil Literature in Colonial India. Foundation Books, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2014.” IESHR 52:2 (2014) 236-238.

“Review of Barbara Schuler: Of Death and Birth. Icakkiyammaṉ, a Tamil Goddess, in Ritual and Story. Harrassowitz Verlag, Ethno-Indologie, Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Riuals (general editor: Axel Michaels), Vol. 8, Wiesbaden 2009.“ AS/EA LXIV.2 (2010) 445-447.
“Review of Leslie C. Orr: Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God. Temple Women in Medieval Tamil Nadu.” Indo-Iranian Journal 45 (2001) 260-263.
“Review of Orientalia Pragensia XIII: Kamil V. Zvelebil, Tamulica et Dravidica, A Selection of Papers on Tamil and Dravidian Linguistics. Ed. Jaroslav Vacek/Jan Dvorak, Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica 3, Prag 1995.” StII 22 (1999) 311-316.

Miscellaneous

“Obeisance to Viṣṇu-Tirumāl: Vaiṣṇava Transmission for a Caṅkam” Manuscript Cultures, Newsletter N^o 2, Hamburg 2010, p. 26.

“Une vie de service – T. S. Gangadharan, pandit du tamoul.” BEFEO, 95-96 (2008-2009), pp. 11-17.
“The Broken Chain of Memory – An Obituary for T.V. Gopal Iyer.” RiSS 2 (2007) 271-75.
Preface (in English) for Tamil Ilakkaṇap Pērakarāti [“Encyclopedia of Tamil Grammar and Poetics”], ed. in 17 volumes by T.V. Gopal Iyer, Tamiḻ Maṇ Patippakam/EFEO, Chennai 2005.
Preface (in French) to Māṟaṉ Akapporuḷ and the Tiruppatikkōvai. A treatise on Tamil poetics illustrated with a narrative poem, ed. by T.V. Gopal Iyer, IFP-EFEO, Publications du Département d'Indologie 96, Pondichéry 2005.

Lektürelisten

For a more extensive bibliography, Tamil reading material and audio files, see www.NETamil.org/learning_Tamil

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Language/Sprache

Britto, F. 1986: Diglossia: A Study on the Theory with Application to Tamil. Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C..

Lehmann, Thomas. 1998. "Old Tamil". in: Sanford B. Steever (ed.). The Dravidian Languages. London, New York: Routledge. pp. 75-99.

Beythan, H. 1943: Praktische Grammatik der Tamilsprache. Harrassowitz, Leipzig.

Chevillard, J.-L. 2007: “Syntactic Duality in Classical Tamil Poems”. In: Old and New Perspectives on South-Asian Languages – Grammar and Semantics, Ed. by C.P. Masica, MLBD Series in Linguistics 16, Motilal Banarsidas, pp. 177-210.

History and Society/Geschichte und Gesellschaft

Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. 1988: A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. Oxford University Press. Rep. of the 4^th ed. from 1975 [1^st 1955, 2^nd 1958, 3^rd 1966].

Kanakasabhai, V. 2000: The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago, Tirunelveli South India Saiva Siddhanta Works, Ceṉṉai (3^rd ed., 2^nd ed. 1956, 1^st ed. 1904).

Champakalakshmi, R. 1996: Trade, Ideology and Urbanization. South India 300 BC to AD 1300. Oxford University Press.

Mahadevan, I. 2003: Early Tamil Epigraphy. From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Cre-A/Harvard University, Chennai, (2^nd ed. CICT 2014).

Ramaswamy, S. 1997: Passions of the Tongue. Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970. University of California Press, Berkeley. [Indian Edition: Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi 1998]

Trautmann, Th. R. 2006: Languages and Nation. The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras. Yoda Press, New Delhi.

Religion

John L. Brockington 1981: The Sacred Thread. Hinduism in Its Continuity and Diversity. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Hardy, F. 1983: Viraha-Bhakti. The Early History of Kṛṣṇa Devotion in South India. Oxford University Press, Delhi, Oxford, New York.

Katherine K. Young 2007: Brāhmaṇas, Pāñcarātrins, and the Formation of Śrīvaiṣṇavism, in: On the Mutual Influences and Relationship of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta and Pāñcarātra, hg. v. Gerhard Oberhammer und Marion Rastelli, Studies in Hinduism IV, Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 54, Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 179-261.

Ramanujan, A.K. 1981: Hymns for the Drowning. Poems for Viṣṇu by Nammāḻvār. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Shulman, D.D. 1990: Songs of the Harsh Devotee. The Tēvāram of Cuntaramūrttināyaṉār. University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia.

Wilden, E. 2013: Lieder von Hingabe und Staunen. Gedichte der frühen tamilischen Bhakti. Verlag der Weltreligionen, Insel – Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2013.

Literature/Literatur

Ramanujan, A.K. 1967: The Interior Landscape – Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology. Indiana University Press. [Indian ed. OPU 1994, rep. 1995]

Vaiyāpurip Piḷḷai, S. 1956: History of Tamil Language and Literature (Beginning to 1000 A.D.). New Century Book House, Madras. (rep. 1988)

Kailasapathy, K. 1968: Tamil Heroic Poetry. Oxford University Press, London.

Zvelebil, Kamil V. 1995: Lexicon of Tamil Literature. Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band 9. E.J. Brill, Leiden, New York, Köln.

Zvelebil, K.V. 1992: Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature. E.J. Brill, Leiden, New York, Kobenhavn, Köln.

Ebeling, S. 2010: Colonizing the Realm of Words. The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India. State University of New York Press, SUNY series in Hindu Studies, Albany.

Wilden, E. 2014: Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Caṅkam in Tamilnadu. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 3, de Gruyter, Berlin.

Learned Traditions

Wilden, E. (ed.) 2009: Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary. Proceedings of a Workshop in Honour of T.V. Gopal Iyer., IFP-EFEO, Collection Indologie 109, Pondichéry.

Cox, W./Vergiani V. (ed.) 2013: Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Tamil and Sanskrit in Medieval India. IFP-EFEO, Collection Indologie 121, Pondichéry.

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