[INDOLOGY] Reminder: Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies – Lecture by Tine Vekemans, Ghent University (June 3)

[Ana Bajzelj]

Apologies for cross-posting.



Dear All,



This is a reminder that the second lecture of our virtual event series,
“Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies,” will take place this Friday,* June 3,
2022, 9:00-10:20am (PDT)*. You can find more information about the speaker
*Dr. Tine Vekemans* (Ghent University) and the lecture below.



Register for the event here:

https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpc-mqrDgqHNA3xPwLP9dMUqYx0Fvviql1



The “Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies” event series is co-organized by the
Departments of Religious Studies at UC Davis and UC Riverside. We envision
this platform as a way for junior scholars working on Jain materials to
share their work with and receive feedback from junior and
senior scholars in the field of Jain studies and the larger academic
community.



Best wishes,



Lynna Dhanani and Ana Bajzelj





*Mom’s Mombasa Memories: Jain East Africa and Its Afterlife*



Throughout history, Jains have moved within and outside of South Asia for a
variety of reasons. The Jain diaspora in its current form was shaped by
specialist international trade networks and changing national migration
laws and was profoundly influenced by the opportunities and exigencies
caused by the rise and fall of the British Empire. This talk discusses a
unique instance of collective migration within this context, namely the
movement of Jains from Gujarat to the East African colonies in the first
half of the 20th century, and subsequently to the UK (and to a lesser
extent to North America) in the second half of the 20th century. After
briefly addressing the history of Jains and Jainism in East Africa and the
difficulties encountered in studying this history, this talk looks at the
ways in which members of this twice-migrant community remember and
reconstruct their history. It presents a selection of memorial projects
(films, social media groups, exhibitions) and individual narratives
(biographies, family histories, interviews) of East African Jains in the
UK, inviting an analysis of what is remembered, but also how and why it is
remembered the way it is.



*Tine Vekemans* holds a PhD in Indian Languages and Cultures from Ghent
University in Belgium. Over the past decade, her research touched upon
diverse aspects of Jainism related to migration and digital media. Her
current research project seeks to examine the continued importance of East
Africa in the lives and minds of twice migrants and their descendants,
placing the study of Jainism and Jain religious praxis in dialogue with
themes such as migration, memory, and identity. Tine is currently a
post-doctoral researcher on a grant by Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
and was recently appointed Acharya Mahapragya Professor of Jain Studies at
Ghent University.
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