History and Current state of Jaina studies
20th Anniversary Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS
The 18th Annual Jaina Lecture
Friday, 23rd March 2018
18.00-19.30 SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Eva de Clercq (University of Ghent)
Jainism and the Rāmāyaṇa
19.30 Reception Brunei Gallery Suite
20th Jaina Studies Workshop
Saturday, 24th March 2018, SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
9.00 Tea and Coffee
First Session: History of Digambara Literature and Philosophy
9.15 Hampana Nagarajaiah (Bangalore, India)
Current Debates on the Influence of Jainism on Early Kannada Literature
9.45 Nalini Balbir (University of Paris, Sorbonne III)
Digambara Books of Discipline: A Study in Progress
10.15 Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)
A Note on the Oeuvre of the ‘Collective Thinker’ Kundakunda. The Case of the Pañcâstikāya-saṅgraha (Paṁc’atthiya-saṁgaha)
10.45 Tea & Coffee
Second Session: Science and Technology in Jaina Studies
11.15 Anupam Jain (Government College, Sanwer, Indore)
History and Current Developments in the Study of Jainism and Science
11.45 Himal Trikha (University of Vienna)
Digital Corpus of Vidyānandin’s Works
12.15 Peter Flügel (SOAS)
The Jaina-Prosopography Database
12.45 Group Photo
13.00 Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite
Award Ceremony
14.00 International Prakrit Jñānabhāratī Award 2017, Shravanabelagola
Third Session: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Jainism
14.15 Roundtable Discussion
John Cort (Denison University), Paul Dundas (University of Edinburgh), Kristi Wiley (University of Berkeley)
Jayandra Soni (chair), Phyllis Granoff (discussant)
15.00 Tea & Coffee
Fourth Session: Jaina Studies and the Jaina Community
15.30 Shin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki)
Paṇḍits and Monks in Jain Studies
16.00 Steven M. Vose (Florida International University, Miami)
From Jainology to Jain Studies…and Back? Toward a Dialogic Approach to Scholarly Engagement with Jain Communities
16.30 Short Break
Fifth Session: Current State of Jaina Studies and Future Prospects
16.45 Roundtable Discussion
Phyllis Granoff (Yale University), Anupam Jain (Government College Sanwer), Hampana Nagarajaiah (Bangalore), Olle Qvarnström (University of Lund), Jitendra Shah (L.D. Institute of Indology), Jayandra Soni (University of Insbruck), & Others
John Cort (chair), Paul Dundas (discussant)
18.00 Final Remarks
Free and Open to All!
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