23rd Jaina Studies Workshop: Jaina Knowledge Systems
Key information
- Date
- Time
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9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Venue
- Brunei Gallery
- Room
- Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
About this event
Various
Programme
| Time | Description |
| 9:00am | Tea and Coffee |
| First Session: Manuscripts and Books | |
| 9:15am |
John E. Cort
(Denison University)
To Print the Canon or Not? Rāy Dhanpatisiṃh Bahādur of Murshidabad and the Āgam Saṅgrah |
| 9:45am |
Kalpana Sheth
(Ahmedabad)
Jaina Palm-Leaf Manuscripts in Gujarāt and Rājasthān |
| 10:05am |
Prathibha Parshwanath & Hampasandra Nagarajaiah
(Bangalore)
Digambara Libraries in South India |
| 10:30am |
Mansi Dhariwal
(Bikaner)
Sādhumārgī Jaina Libraries |
| 10:45am | Tea and Coffee |
| Second Session: Collecting and Classifying | |
| 11:15am |
Nick Barnard
(V&A, London)
Jain Manuscripts in an Art Museum: Collecting and Classifying at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| 11:45am |
Adrian Plau
(Wellcome Institute, London)
Jain Manuscripts at Wellcome Collection |
| 12:15pm |
Camillo Formigatti
(Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
Famous People in the FAMOUS Project: Authority Files for South Asian Digital Catalogues and Others |
| 12:45pm | Book Launch: Spectrum of Classical Literature in Karnataka , by Hampa. Nagarajaiah |
| 12:55pm | Group Photo |
| 1:00pm | Lunch |
| Third Session: Inscriptions, Books and Databases | |
| 2:00pm |
Amruta Natu
(presenting) & Shreenand L. Bapat (BORI, Pune)
Religious Ideas as Gleaned from the Jaina Inscriptions of the Early Kadambas and Early Calukyas |
| 2:30pm |
Michael Willis
(Royal Asiatic Society, London)
Prosopography and Inscriptions in Malwa: the Siddham Database |
| 3:00pm |
Anish Visaria
(JaineLibrary)
Walkthrough and Applications of Jain Quantum: A Jain Literature Search Engine |
| 3:30pm | Tea and Coffee |
| Fourth Session: Art as a Knowledge System | |
| 4:00pm |
Peter Flügel
(SOAS)
Jaina Art as a Knowledge System: The Problem of Classifying Jina Images Revisited |
| 4:30pm |
Tillo Detige, Patrick Krüger, Jessie Pons
(University of Bochum)
Towards a Database of Jaina Metaphors of Divine Corporeality |
| Fifth Session: Distinctions | |
| 5:00pm |
Seema K. Chauhan
(University of Oxford)
The Inconsistent Other: Sanskrit Textual Practices according to Jinasena’s Harivaṃśapurāṇa |
| 5:30pm |
Shree Nahata
(University of Oxford)
Akalaṅka’s Theory of Perception: A Jaina Critique of Buddhist Idealism |
| 6:00pm | Final Remarks |
This conference will be held in-person and the recording will be made available on this web page.
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Registration
This event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Registration Form
Organiser: Peter Flügel (SOAS Centre of Jaina Studies)
Contact email: Peter.Flugel@soas.ac.uk
