{"id":518,"date":"2022-09-18T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:33:36","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=518","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a preliminary meeting of a group of experts from around the world at the height of the Croatian homeland war in 1994 in Dubrovnik, the First Dubrovnik International Conference on Sanskrit Epics and Pur\u0101\u1e47as was held in August 1997. In regular three-year intervals, the conference was held ten times, including the pandemic year of 2021, when the conference was held hybridly, via zoom and with direct participation.<\/p>\n<p>DICSEP is organized by the Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb University), Croatian Philosophical Society and the conference\u2019s International Committee. The International Committee consists of Ivan Andrijani\u0107 (University of Zagreb), Renate S\u00f6hnen-Thieme (School of Oriental and African Studies, London), Shrikant Bahulkar (University of Pune), Christophe Vielle (Institut orientaliste, Louvain la Neuve), Mislav Je\u017ei\u0107 (University of Zagreb), Mandakranta Bose (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Sven Sellmer (Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna\u0144), McComas Taylor (Australian National University in Canberra), Sanne Dokter-Mersch (Leiden University) and Przemys\u0142aw Szczurek (Wroc\u0142aw University). Attendees, including leading international experts, come from all continents where Indological research is undertaken.<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts publishes the conference proceedings in cooperation with Dev Publishers (Delhi) in English with Croatian summaries. Seven volumes have already been published. DICSEP has evolved into the leading international conference in the field, inspiring new research trends and bringing scientists together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20220831065034_00001-1-1024x627.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"376\" \/>DICSEP 1 participants, Dubrovnik 1997.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: start; line-height: 24px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a preliminary meeting of a group of experts from around the world at the height of the Croatian homeland war in 1994 in Dubrovnik, the First Dubrovnik International Conference on Sanskrit Epics and Pur\u0101\u1e47as was held in August 1997. In regular three-year intervals, the conference was held ten times, including the pandemic year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}