Venue
The 6th edition of our conference has taken place in Rome, 17–19 September 2015.
Book of abstracts
Book of abstracts, containing also the programme, can be downloaded here (editing and layout by Ann-Kathrin Wolf).
Flyer
The flyer can be downloaded here.
Abstract
The Coffee Break Conference began as an attempt to encourage the kind of critical and open-ended discussions that have unfortunately been confined to short coffee breaks at most academic conferences. Coffee Break Conferences give scholars the opportunity to critically discuss their work, especially new work, in an interdisciplinary setting. Discussions at these conferences have tended to focus on scholarly methodology and all types of comparisons: between areas of study, between the approaches of different disciplines, between the concepts and vocabulary of different traditions of scholarship.
Panels
- Linguistic Selves Language and Identity in the Premodern World
- The “Religion” Challenge: Comparative Religious Studies and the Trouble to Transfer Conceptional Terms from Europe to Asia
- Is Theology comparable? Comparison applied to “Theology” and “God”
- Knowing the unknown: Extra-ordinary cognitions in Brahmanical philosophies
- The trans-cultural reshaping of psychoanalysis, or the perks of comparative psychodynamics
Organising board
Elisa Freschi, Andrew Ollett
What has been said about us by the participants
“It was an inspirational few days, I now have a whole notebook of thoughts and ideas for my work in the future.” (LS)
“Anche questa volta è stata una bella occasione per confrontarsi, imparare e conoscere gente in gamba. Bello!” (MF)
Asiatica 
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