Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Guest researcher
- Name
- Dr. C.S. Spiers
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- c.s.spiers@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3956-5933
Carmen Spiers is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
More information about Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Carmen Sylvia Spiers, after obtaining her PhD (2020) from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris) and having lived four years in India affiliated with the French Institute of Pondicherry, is now a Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) post-doctoral fellow at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her project “His Enemies, Her Rivals: Gendered Expressions of Hostility in Ancient Indian Ritual Speech and Action, 1000 B.C.E.” (GHost) involves the edition from manuscripts of new Vedic curse hymns of the Paippalāda school of the Atharvaveda as well as a translation and study of the abhicāra or hostile ritual chapter of the Atharvaveda’s oldest ritual manual, the Kauśikasūtra.
Guest researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL VIET
- Spiers C.S. (2022), The semantics of sharpness and the prohibition of the pungent: Garlic, Sanskrit śigru(ka)-, and Old Persian *θigra(ka)-, Indo-Iranian Journal 65(2): 93-121.
- Spiers C.S. (2022), Sur un rôle inconnu de Somaun dieu de l’amour dans l’Atharvaveda: un dieu de l’amour dans l’Atharvaveda, Bulletin d'Études Indiennes (35): 161-183.
- Spiers C.S. (2021), Review of: Bodewitz H. (2019), Vedic cosmology and ethics: selected studies. Leiden: Brill. Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (106): 477-479.
- Spiers C.S. (2021), La malédiction de l’observateur (upadraṣṭár-) dans l’Atharvaveda. In: Fellner H.A., Malzahn M. & Peyrot M. (Eds.), lyuke wmer ra. Indo-European Studies in Honor of Georges-Jean Pinault. Ann Arbor/New York: Beech Stave Press. 487-500.
- Spiers C.S. (14 December 2020), Magie et poésie dans l’Inde ancienne: édition, traduction et commentaire de la Paippalādasaṁhitā de l’Atharvaveda, livre 3 (Dissertatie, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Université Paris sciences et lettres). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Balbir N., Griffiths A.