Research Seminar: Philosophy and Yoga

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

CANCELLED

Various speakers

Wednesdays 5.00 – 6.30pm Summer term 2020, SOAS University of London

The SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies is delighted to host a series of seminars with scholars at the heart of Philosophy and Yoga Studies. This study group brings together leading scholars, researchers and graduates in the scholarly study of yoga as well as students of yoga more broadly.

SOAS is home to world-class research and teaching on Yoga Studies. The Centre of Yoga Studies seeks to promote the academic study of the history, philosophy and practice of yoga. This study group is an opportunity for scholars to share their research and for participants to engage closely with their work. Please join us. Spaces are limited to facilitate exchange of ideas, and participants are asked to register in advance. Readings will be shared prior to the sessions.

Please contact Ruth Westoby, seminar convenor, to register ( ruth_westoby@soas.ac.uk ) noting which sessions you would like to attend and your area of research.

Dr. Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette

FWO Postdoctoral Fellow, Universiteit Gent

Title: Nerds of Yoga: Perusing the Path of Knowledge through Philosophical Doxography

22 April 2020

Room G51a

Prof. Chakravarti Ram-Prasad

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy, Lancaster University

Title: Yoga, Philosophy and Gender: Thinking through a Debate in the Mahābhārata

29 April 2020

Room G51a

Prof. Diwakar Acharya

Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, All Souls College Oxford

Title: 'Death Does Not Exist,' How?: The Teachings of Sanatsujāta

6 May 2020

Prof. Mikel Burley

Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Leeds

Title: Studying Yoga Philosophically: Ontology, Epistemology, Ethics

13 May 2020

Dr. Jessica Frazier

Research Lecturer, University of Oxford

Title: Artful Forms of Life: The Unbearable Plasticity of Being in Classical Yoga

20 May 2020

Dr. Karen O-Brien-Kop

Lecturer in Asian Religions and Ethics, University of Roehampton

Title: Entangled Ontologies in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra: Sāṃkhya, Sarvāstivāda and Sautrāntika

3 June 2020