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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191101T093000
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URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/seminar-personal-library-eu
 ropean-polymath-gros-collection/
SUMMARY:Seminar on the Personal Library of a European Polymath: The Gros Co
 llection
DESCRIPTION:Professor François Gros\, who retired as the Director of the 
 Ecole Francaise d’Extreme Orient\, Pondicherry\, India is one of the lea
 ding doyens of Tamil Studies worldwide. In the course of what might be des
 cribed as a 19th-century scholarly career which moved from anthropology to
  the study of Southeast Asia and then South Asia he amassed an extraordina
 ry collection of rare works on South India and its reception in France. Th
 e core of his library\, housed originally at the Rue François Gros in Ly
 on\, France is an irreplaceable collection of rare works in Tamil\, consis
 ting of dictionaries\, religious works\, fiction\, ethnographic accounts\,
  the catalogues of private collections etc. In 2017 he generously donated 
 this core collection of about 9000 works to the University of Toronto\, wh
 ere it is currently being catalogued and digitized in a project jointly he
 aded by Lana Soglasnova and Srilata Raman. In this seminar we hope to shar
 e some of the treasures of this collection with you.\n\nThe presenters of 
 this collection will include:\n\nSrilata Raman\, Associate Professor of Hi
 nduism\, Department of Religion\, University of Toronto. Srilata works on 
 Tamil religion\, and particularly its intellectual history between the 11-
 14th and 17th-19th centuries\, respectively.\n\nPrakash Venkatesan\, Senio
 r Research Fellow\, French Institute\, Pondicherry. Prakash specializes in
  Classical Tamil literature. He did the preliminary cataloguing of the Gro
 s Collection for the University of Toronto.\n\nMuthukrishnan Kannan\, Dire
 ctor of the Contemporary Tamil Studies Programme at the French Institute\,
  Pondicherry. He is a close associate of Professor Gros and an expert on t
 he collection.\n\nProgram poster as pdf for download\n\nThis event is co-s
 ponsored by the Book History and Print Culture program.
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LOCATION:Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library\,  Maclean Hunter Room\, 120 St. G
 eorge Street \, Toronto\, Canada
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