Saturday, October 26, 2013, 9 am - 5 pm
The Study of Jainism: A Symposium in
Honor of Prof. Padmanabh Jaini's 90th Birthday
220 Stephens Hall
The
symposium brings together a select group of leading experts of Jainism from
Europe and the US who work in different arenas of Jain Studies and represent
different disciplines, including textual studies, anthropology, history, and art
history. They will present papers on different aspects of Jainism drawing upon
their current research. In this way the current state of Jain Studies will be
brought to bear in its disciplinary breadth. This is to allow for discussions on
past accomplishments and also the challenges and the new directions that may be
envisaged for this important and still rather neglected field of
study.
The symposium is organized in honor of Prof. Padmanabh Jaini who
has pioneered the study of Jainism in the English speaking world. His The Jaina
Path of Purification (first published in 1979) has brought the study and
knowledge of Jainism to a broader English speaking public, and his numerous
further publications — such as his book Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on
the Spiritual Liberation of Women (1991) and his Collected papers on Jaina
Studies (2000) — have made him one of the leading scholar in this field. Even as
he is about to become a nonagenarian he continues to work and publish at the
forefront of Jain Studies, and will also present
himself.
Participants:
Prof. Christopher Chapple, Indic and
Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University
Prof. John Cort,
Director of Denison University Department of Religion
Prof. Paul Dundas,
Reader in Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh
Dr. Peter Flügel, Chair
of the Centre for Jaina Studies at SOAS, University of London
Prof.
Phyllis Granoff, Religious Studies - Yale University
Dr. Shalin Jain,
S.G.T.B. Khalsa College, University of Delhi
Prof. Padmanabh Jaini,
Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Prof.
Robert Goldman, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC
Berkeley
Prof. Olle Qvarnström, Centre for Theology and Religious
Studies, Lund University
Prof. Alexander von Rospatt, Department of South
& Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Dr. Audrey Truschke, ACLS
Fellow at Stanford University
Dr. Kristi Wiley, Department of South &
Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
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Graduate School
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University of
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