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. Adrian Plau (Wellcome Collection) on Friday, September 30, 2022, 9:00-10:30am PDT. You can find more information about the lecture and the speaker below.

Register for the event here:

https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkcO2hqz0jHdEq8aecqI3UFT6wIpHrOlVf

Best wishes, 

Lynna Dhanani and Ana Bajzelj


Collections and Communities

In this talk, Dr. Adrian Plau will reflect on two themes that have interlinked throughout his career and now are central to his work: collections and communities. Drawing a line from his PhD project, which focused on manuscripts accessed in Jain temple libraries across North India, to his present role in the gallery, library, archive, and museum (GLAM) sector where he is part of the management and cataloguing of Wellcome Collection’s manuscript collections, he will situate these themes in his ongoing Headley Fellowship with the Art Fund, which seeks to develop a model for manuscript repatriation driven by collections information work with Wellcome Collection’s Jain manuscripts.

Dr. Adrian Plau is Manuscript Collections Information Analyst at Wellcome Collection, working particularly with making the Collection’s global manuscripts more accessible and discoverable to wider audiences.