From August 11-14, 2022, the Mohini Jain Presidential Chair in Jain Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at UC Davis will host the in-person conference “Beyond Boundaries: A Celebration of the Work of John E. Cort,” where close colleagues and mentees of Professor Cort will present research papers and personal reflections. For further information on this conference, please go to http://beyondboundaries-ucd.org/.

We cordially invite you to the two “Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies” panels to take place in a hybrid format. Guests not physically present at the conference venue will be able to attend both of our Emerging Scholars panels via Zoom. If interested, please register for the events using the links given below. Similar to our virtual series, the virtual audience will be invited to send comments and have them answered by the speakers alongside those of the in-person audience. Please note the dates and times for the following panels: 

Saturday, August 13, 2022

3:50-4:50pm PDT 
Emerging Scholars I (Hybrid): Polemics and Puranas (Co-chairs: Peter Flügel, SOAS (in person) and Ana Bajzelj, University of California, Riverside (online))
1. Heleen De Jonckheere (Ghent University)
Othering Another ‘Brahmin’: A Jain Polemic in Translation
2. Seema Chauhan (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
Unbounded Jaina Purāṇas

Sunday, August 14, 2022

9:00-10:00am PDT
Emerging Scholars II (Hybrid): Yatis and Bhattarakas (Co-chairs: Richard Davis, Bard College (in person) and Lynna Dhanani, University of California, Davis (online))
1. Tillo Detige (Ghent University)
Digambara Memorials from Western India: Beyond the Boundaries of Death & Periodisation
2. Eric Villalobos (Emory University; Mohini Jain Graduate Essay Prize Winner)
The Medical Training of a Śvetāmbar Monk: The Life of Upādhyāy Rāmlāl Yati

The paper abstracts for these talks can be found on the conference website under “Program.”

The “Emerging Scholars in Jain Studies” event series is co-organized and co-sponsored 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 and Jain communities. We invite PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, lecturers, untenured and newly tenured faculty, as well as independent scholars and curators to deliver talks in this series. 

Register for the first panel (August 13) here:

https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfu-sqD8vGdVVJq45nSjnJx8H3TUqIJn6

Register for the second panel (August 14) here:

https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlf-ysqTkpGtaimz7QzqZmToNzPH7QDAaF 

Best wishes, 

Lynna Dhanani and Ana Bajzelj