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. ---------------------------

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@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