Apologies for cross-posting. 

Dear Colleagues, 

Please find below the Jain Studies Unit’s call for proposals for the 2024 AAR.

Best wishes, 

Ana and Greg

Call for Proposals for November Meeting

The Jain Studies Unit welcomes suggestions for panel ideas to be included in the AAR 2024 Call for Papers. If you would like to add your idea to the CFP, or if you have any questions, please send a short provisional title of your topic to one (or both) of the Jain Studies co-chairs, Gregory Clines (gclines@trinity.edu) and/or Ana Bajzelj (abajzelj@ucr.edu). We especially welcome suggestions for panels to be co-sponsored with other units and for panels that address the 2024 Annual Meeting’s Presidential Theme: “Violence, Nonviolence, and the Margin.” Finally, the Jain Studies Unit encourages proposals to include voices that are diverse in terms of race, caste, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, age, socioeconomic status, geographic region, professional rank, and institutional affiliation.

Please note that the Jain Studies Unit only accepts proposals for complete panels, roundtables, book discussions, etc. and does not accept individual papers. This is true for both the online Summer Session and the in-person annual meeting.

The following are proposed panel titles with contact information as of Dec. 11, 2023. If interested, please contact the listed person(s) directly. Additional panel proposals are welcomed. The Jain Studies Unit exclusively uses the AAR PAPERS system for all submissions.

• Between Tradition and Modernity: 20th and 21st Century Jain Mendicant Leaders (Lynna Dhanani, lrdhanani@ucdavis.edu)
• Jainism and Medicine (Eric Villalobos, villalobos@emory.edu)
• Omniscience in Jainism/South Asian Religions (for possible co-sponsorship with Hindu Philosophy Unit) (Marie-Hélène Gorisse, gorisse@bham.ac.uk)
• Jainism and Consumption in the Diaspora (Jonathan Dickstein, jhdickstein@arihantainstitute.org)
• Spiritual Warriors: Violence and Nonviolence in Jain and Sikh Traditions (for possible co-sponsorship with Sikh Studies Unit) (Nirinjan Khalsa, Nirinjan.Khalsa@lmu.edu; Gregory Clines, gclines@trinity.edu)
• Exploring the Yaśastilaka (Sasha Restifo, arestifo@fiu.edu)
• Jain Text Translation Workshop (for possible co-sponsorship with Buddhist Philosophy Unit, Hindu Philosophy Unit, and/or Yogācāra Unit) (Anil Mundra, ammundra@gmail.com)
• Jain Studies and the Impact of the Work of Alan Babb (M. Whitney Kelting, kelting@northeastern.edu)
• Jains and Relations to the State (David St. John, david.c.stjohn@email.ucr.edu)

Online June Session