Programme
| Time | Description |
| 9:00am | Tea and Coffee |
| First Session: Violence and Non-Violence | |
| 9:15am | Peter Flügel (SOAS) The Non-Violence of Non-Violence |
| 9:45am | Brianne Donaldson (University of California, Irvine, USA) The Hunter, the Bow, and the Arrow: Intentional Harm in the Early Jain Canon |
| 10:15am | Samaṇī Pratibhā Prajñā (Jain Vishva Bharati Institute/SOAS) Ahiṁsā Praśikṣaṇa: A Socio-Religious Initiative |
| 10:45am | Tea and Coffee |
| Second Session: Imagined (Non-) Violence | |
| 11:15am | Patrick Krüger (University of Bochum, Germany) The Visualizing of Torture and Pain: Depictions of Violence in Jaina Art |
| 11:45am | Himal Trikha (University of Vienna, Austria) 84 Lakh Yonis: The Jaina Doctrine of 8.4 Million Embodiments |
| 12:15pm | Julie Alyssa Hanlon (University of Chicago, USA) (Non) Violence in Stone and Clay: A Consideration of Jain Lithic Inscriptions, Relief Images, and Ceramic Vessels |
| 12:45pm | Prakrit Jnanabharati International Award |
| 1:00pm | Group Photo |
| 1:15pm | Lunch |
| Third Session: Statehood and (Non-) Violence | |
| 2:15pm | Olle Qvarnström (The University of Lund, Sweden) Jain Adaptation to Muslim Rule during the Delhi Sultanate |
| 2:45pm | Tillo Detige (Gent, Belgium) Rhetoric of Violence, Violent Rhetoric: The Sultanate and Mughal Era Flourishing of Digambara Jainism |
| 3:15pm | Jean Arzoumanov (Sorbonne III, Paris, France) Conflicting Descriptions of Jaina Monks in Indo-Persian Sources: Between Nonviolence, Magic and Snake Charming |
| 3:45pm | Tea and Coffee |
| Fourth Session: Jaina Narratives of Violence and Non-Violence | |
| 4:15pm | Steven Vose (Florida International University) What To Do About All This Killing? Locating Jain Tantra in Medieval Indian Political and Social Life |
| 4:45pm | Basile Leclère (University of Lyon, France) Teachings on Violence in Jain Prabandhas: The Tragic Death of King Ajayapāla |
| 5:15pm | Simon Winant (University of Gent, Belgium) Justifying Violence & Redistributing Blame: The Implications of Devaprabhasūri’s Narrative Choices in the Pāṇḍavacarita |
| 5:45pm | Richard Fynes (SOAS) Violence and Humour in Hemacandra |
| 6:15pm | Final Remarks |
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