Aleix Ruiz Falqués

Presentations

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Invited international lectures

“A Short Introduction to the Pāli Grammar of Kaccāyana: Historical Background, Terminology and Technique”, series of 6 online lectures at the Rainy Season Research Series, Transnational Network of Theravada Scholars, September–October, 2020. https://theravadastudies.org/rainy-season-research-series/
“Turn of the Millennium: Meditation and Buddhist Literature in 20th-century Burma”, guest lecture at the course Global History III, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, March 5, 2020.
The Mukhamattasāra and the Pali Tradition of Burma. Special Lecture. University of Calcutta, 26 December, 2019.
Pali Research Today: Postgraduate Seminar Guest Lecture, hosted by Prof. Ujjwal Kumar. University of Calcutta, 26 December, 2019.
International Workshop on the Mukhamattasāra: Kāraka Section. One-Week Workshop on Pali Grammatical Texts. Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, December 17–24, 2019.
“Two Destinies Without a Third: The Myth of the Original King in the Dīgha Nikāya and the Śāntiparvan of the Mahābhārata”, guest lecture at Mahābhārata Lecture Series, Centre of Dvaita Philosophy, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, April 7, 2018.
“Burmese Buddhism and Pāli Grammar”, lecture at the Staatsbibliothek of Berlin, Berlin, 30 September, 2014

Invited international conference papers

“The Mukhamattasāra: A Forgotten Treasure of Pagan”, presentation at the University of Yangon Centenary Conference, Yangon, January 6–7, 2020.
“Rare Words in Medieval Pali”, presentation at the International Workshop on Buddhist Lexicography in the 21st Century, convenor: Professor Mahesh Deokar (University of Pune) and Professor Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen), Pune, March 1-3, 2018.
“Saddanīti, ‘The Rule of Sound’: Pali Grammar and the Oral Nature of Pali”, presentation at the International Workshop on Post-10th century Pali Literature, convenors: Professor Mahesh Deokar and Dr. Dragomir Dimitrov, Department of Pali, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, November 6–8, 2017.
“The Flight of the Garuḍa: Daṇḍin in the Bay of Bengal”, presentation at the 2nd Daṇḍin Workshop, convenor: Yigal Bronner, Belgium House, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 11–13, 2016.
“On Translating Pāli Texts into Spanish, a View from the Trenches” presentation at The First International Conference on Awakening Words Translated: The Pāḷi Tipiṭaka Translation in Myanmar and Beyond, convenor: Ven. Khammai Dhamasami, University of Yangon, Myanmar, December 1, 2016.
“The Kuru narrative in the Sumaṅgalavilāsinī and the role of Buddhaghosa as an audience setter”, presentation at the workshop Textures of Buddhaghosa’s Writing and the Contours of His Thought: A Workshop on Reading Practices, convenor: Maria Heim, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, September 30 – October 2, 2016.
“Alaṅkāra for the Birds. The indirect reception of Daṇḍin’s Kāvyādarśa in Burma”, presentation at the workshop A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters, organised by D. Shulman, Y. Bronner and Ch. Hallisey, The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 13-17 December, 2015
Participant at the Symposium Buddhist Studies Today, organised by the Robert H. N. Ho and Family Foundation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 7-9 July, 2015
“Grammatical Quotations in Ariyavaṃsa’s Maṇisāramañjūsā, a fifteenth-century Abhidhamma Commentary”, presentation at the conference Scholastic or Transformational? Explorations of Burmese Abhidhamma, King’s College, London, 30 June, 2015
“The Suttaniddesa of Saddhammajotipāla: Pāli Grammar and Buddhist Reformism in fifteenth-century Myanmar”, presentation at workshop Current Trends In Grammatical Studies, International Symposium and Workshop, Mumbai, 14-16 February, 2015
“The Pajjamadhu: Pāli Poetry in Translation, Jumping without a Net”, presentation at the 12th Yu Wue Buddhist Conference, Hanzhou, 12-15 December, 2014

Conference papers

“Two Textual Problems in the Dīgha Nikāya”, presentation at the Conference of the Japanese Association of Indology and Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, 3-4 September, 2016
“The creative erudition of Chapaṭa Saddhammajotipāla, a 15th-century Burmese scholar monk”, presentation at the Coffee Break Conference, La Sapienza, Rome, 21-23 December, 2012
“Saddhammasiri and his Philosophy of Language”, paper presented at the 2012 International Burma Studies Conference, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (Il), 5th – 7th October, 2012.
“A new reading of the Meghadūta”, paper presented at the IIGRS IV (International Indology Graduate Research Symposium IV), Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, 4th – 5th September, 2012.