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Dear Colleagues,

The Jain Studies Unit welcomes suggestions for panel ideas to be included in the AAR 2025 Call for Papers. If you would like to add your idea to the CFP, please send a short provisional title of your topic, name, and contact information to one (or both) of the Jain Studies Unit co-chairs, Gregory Clines (gclines@trinity.edu) and/or Ana Bajzelj (abajzelj@ucr.edu), by December 10, 2024. We especially welcome suggestions for panels to be co-sponsored with other units and for panels that address the 2025 Annual Meeting’s Presidential Theme: “Freedom.” 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.

Online June Sessions

The Jain Studies Unit welcomes proposals for the AAR’s Annual Meeting June Sessions Online program. This online-only conference will run from June 24-26, 2025. We particularly encourage graduate students to submit proposals for the online sessions. 

In-Person Annual Meeting

Boston, Massachusetts, November 22-25, 2025.

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 Sessions and the in-person annual meeting.

Panels can be proposed either for the Summer Sessions or the in-person annual meeting, but the same panel cannot be considered for both. The proposal deadline for both the Summer Sessions and the in-person meeting is the same. 

Please reach out if you have any questions. 

Best wishes, 

Ana and Greg

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