[INDOLOGY] Bimal Matilal Conference, June 26-27, Oxford

[Andrew Nicholson]

Dear Colleagues,

Jonardon Ganeri has asked me to publicize an upcoming conference this
summer dedicated to the memory of Bimal Krishna Matilal. It will be held in
Wolfson College, Oxford. Many leading scholars will be giving talks that
touch on Prof. Matilal’s legacy in the study of Indian philosophy.

A complete schedule of events:
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/events/bimal_matilal_conference

And a downloadable PDF of the conference poster:
https://drive.google.com/a/stonybrook.edu/file/d/0BwK9YOvomWprcU1DY0dXWDJLRFE/view
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwK9YOvomWprcU1DY0dXWDJLRFE/view?usp=sharing>
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*Bimal Matilal conference on Indian philosophy *
*in Wolfson College, Oxford, June 26-7, 2015*

Explaining Indian Philosophy to Westerners was the life work of Prof. Bimal
Matilal of All Souls and that tradition has been continued in writings by
the speakers in this conference organised by Richard Sorabji and Jonardon
Ganeri

Please book with Dr Annie Hewitt, saying whether you wish to come to the
whole conference or to what part, ashewitt at gmail.com

 *Fri June 26, 2015*
 11.00 - 11.15 Dr Jeff Masson Introduction: Personal memory of Bimal
Matilal 11.15
- 12.30 Prof. Jonardon Ganeri, currently visiting NYU Matilal's new
epistemology: knowledge as assurance 14.15 - 15.30 Dr Ankur Barua,
Cambridge The
Reasons of the Heart and the Heart of the Reasons: Reflections on the
Category of 'Hindu Theology' Twenty-five Years After B K Matilal  15.30 -
16.45 Prof. Partha Mitter, Wolfson Global Modernism and Indian Avant-Garde
Art: Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy 17.15 - 18.30 Professor
Ram-Prasad, Lancaster Phenomenology inside and out: the ecology of bodily
being in the Caraka Sa?hitâ


 *Sat June 27*
 11.00 - 11.15 Dr Will Rasmussen, King's, London Introduction: Bimal
Matilal teaching programme in King’s London 11.15 - 12.30 Dr Jan
Westerhoff, LMH, Oxford Interpreting Madhyamaka
*Move to Wolfson auditorium*
 14.15 - 15.15 Professor Gavin Flood, Oxford Could there be a non-dualist
ethical discourse? 15.45 - 17.00 Professor Richard Sorabji, Wolfson Tagore
the poet and Gandhi the ethical philosopher: cooperation without meeting of
minds 17.15 - 18.45 Professor Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University Celebrating
Bimal Krishna Matilal: A Give and Take
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Andrew J. Nicholson
Associate Professor
SUNY Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5343
(631) 632-4030
http://philosophicalrasika.com/
<http://sbsuny.academia.edu/AndrewNicholson>


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