The Twelfth Early Modern Bhākhā/Brajbhāṣā Workshop 2026 (August 7-9, 12-17) and a scholarly symposium titled “Intertextualities: Texts across languages, Languages across texts” (August 10-11) will take place in summer 2026 at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). The Workshop will feature a range of early modern texts, in diverse languages, which will be organized into reading sessions led by experts. The Symposium addresses the intertextual relations that can inform our understanding of ‘early modern’ (ca. 1400-1850 CE) texts in the range of languages known as bhākhā, or hindavī, or in dynamic relation to one or more of these languages. (We also feature work from earlier periods as well, with work that can inform our understanding of vernacular linguistic developments, such as in Apabhraṃśa.) The Symposium embraces diverse perspectives and approaches, with the overarching goal of allowing for exchange and collaboration to enhance how we understand texts and languages in context and in contact in early modern South Asia. An edited volume is planned.

Applications for participation are now closed.