News (2025)9 December 2025|Tamilex newsTamilex monthly seminar: Iona MacgregorPhoto: Maanasa Visweswaran The Morphology of the Maṇimēkalai a Narrative Analysis of the Tamil Buddhist Epic The numerous fantastical elements of the Maṇimēkalai—magical...3 December 2025|Tamilex newsEva Wilden & Jean-Luc Chevillard at the Séminaire mondes indiens in ParisPhoto: Jean-Luc Chevillard Eva Wilden & Jean-Luc Chevillard will be in Paris to present at the Séminaire mondes indiens, on their work with Tamil nikaṇṭu-s. How to make good...4 November 2025|Tamilex newsTamilex monthly seminar: Roland FerencziPhoto: Roland FerencziMustard and Pigs or How to Defend Yourself Against the Enemy This presentation draws on classical Tamil and Sanskrit sources to trace the presence of...25 August 2025|Tamilex newsClassical Tamil Summer Seminar 2025, BudapestPhoto: Roland Ferenczi The Classical Tamil Summer Seminar (CTSS) will be held this year in Budapest, Hungary, organised by the Library and Information Centre of the...15 July 2025|Tamilex newsTamilex monthly seminar: L. DivyabharathiPhoto: Novels by Vai. Mu. Kothainayaki AmmalRewriting Reform Women’s Voices, Caste, and Agency in Early 20th-Century Tamil PrintCulture (1900–1930s) This research investigates the complex...24 June 2025|Tamilex newsTamilex monthly seminar: Martine GestinPhoto: Martine Gestin The Story of the Green Chili Pepper A glimpse of an oral tradition belonging to some mountain dwellers of southern India This lecture revisits...15 May 2025|Tamilex newsCollecting Words and Putting Them in Place, 15–16 May 2025Photo: Universität HamburgWarburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, room 0001 (pavilion), and online The workshop aims at discovering the hidden universals that inform lexicographical...6 May 2025|Tamilex newsTamilex monthly seminar: Neela BhaskarPhoto: fair use Did Commentators Use Commentaries? This presentation examines Aṭiyārkkunallār’s use of quotations in his commentary on the Cilappatikāram. Among the...25 February 2025|Tamilex newsJean-Luc Chevillard honoured in ChennaiPhoto: Friends of Heritage SitesJean-Luc Chevillard was the guest of honour at the 11th FoHS (Friends of Heritage Sites) Day celebration held in Chennai, India. S.A.S. Sharma gave a...10 February 2025|Tamilex news2nd Tamilex Conference, 13–14 February 2025Photo: Roland FerencziÉcole française d'Extrême-Orient / Institut français de Pondichéry The 2nd Tamilex conference will take place in Pondicherry, 13–14 February 2025...10 February 2025|Tamilex newsTamilex workshops, 10–12 February 2025Photo: Institut français de PondichéryÉcole française d'Extrême-Orient / Institut français de Pondichéry With an aim toward engaging more volunteers, as well as to make Tamil manuscripts...
