[INDOLOGY] Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies - Lecture by Dr. Anil Mundra, UC Santa Barbara (October 4, 2024)

[Ana Bajzelj]

Apologies for cross-posting.

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to invite you to the next lecture in our “Emerging Scholars in
Jain Studies” virtual series co-organized by the Departments of Religious
Studies at UC Davis and UC Riverside. The lecture will be delivered by *Dr.
Anil Mundra *on *Friday,* *October 4, 2024, 9:00-10:20am PDT*. You will
find more information about the lecture and the speaker below.

Register for the event here:

https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEof-qgqjwvE9IW60lrDZz1-BU_6rEQkf_V

Please note that you will need to sign into your Zoom account before
entering the Zoom room.

Best wishes,

Ana Bajzelj and Lynna Dhanani


*Identity and Identities, Jain and Otherwise*

What does "identity" mean? The term may seem to be as equivocal as it is
over-burdened in contemporary philosophy and politics. On the one hand,
there is the bedrock singularity that makes anything something at all; and
on the other, a person is said to have various identities in affiliation
with various social groups. Putting modern theorists of identity in
conversation with the eighth-century Śvetāmbara philosopher Haribhadrasūri
and his characteristically Jain doctrine of non-one-sidedness (
*anekāntavāda*), this lecture will show how these apparently disparate
meanings of “identity” can be seen to hang together in Jain thought and
praxis. To identify oneself with the Jain ideology of liberation — to have
a certain sort of Jain social identity — involves identifying oneself in
terms of a particular non-one-sided ontology of persistence and change.

*Anil Mundra* is the inaugural Bhagvan Vimalnath Assistant Professor of
Jain Studies and South Asian Religions in the Department of Religious
Studies of the University of California, Santa Barbara, having recently
completed an Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellowship for the study of
Jainism at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His research focuses on how
premodern Jain philosophers negotiate religious identity, diversity, and
disagreement.
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