History and Current State of Jaina Studies

History and Current state of Jaina studies

20th Anniversary Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS

The 18th Annual Jaina Lecture

Friday, 23rd March 2018, SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

18.00Eva de Clercq (University of Ghent)

Jainism and the Rāmāyaṇa

19.30 Reception Brunei Gallery Suite

20th Jaina Studies Workshop

Saturday, 24th March 2018, SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

9.00 Tea and Coffee: Brunei Gallery Suite

First Session: History of Digambara Literature and Philosophy

9.15 HampanaNagarajaiah (Bangalore, India)

Current Debates on the Influence of Jainism on Early Kannada Literature

9.45Nalini Balbir (University of Paris, Sorbonne III)

Digambara Books of Discipline: A Study in Progress

10.15Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)

A Note on the Oeuvre of the ‘Collective Thinker’ Kundakunda. The Case of the Pañcâstikāya-saṅgraha (Paṁc’atthiya-saṁgaha)

10.45 Tea and Coffee: Brunei Gallery Suite

Second Session: BrajBhāṣā, Science and Technology in Jaina Studies

11.15 Adrian Plau (SOAS)

RāmcandBālak'sSītācarit – A 'New' Jain Rāmāyaṇa in Brajbhāṣā

11.45HimalTrikha(University of Vienna)

Digital Corpus of Vidyānandin’s Works

12.15 Peter Flügel (SOAS)

The Jaina-Prosopography Database

12.40 NaliniBalbir & Peter Flügel

Book Launch: Jaina Studies. Select Papers from the Panel at Bangkok and Kyoto (Proceedings of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok 2015).

12.45Group Photo

13.00 Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite

Award Ceremony

14.00International PrakritJñānabhāratī Award 2017, Shravanabelagola

Third Session: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Jainism

14.15Roundtable Discussion

John Cort (Denison University), Paul Dundas(University of Edinburgh), Kristi Wiley (University of Berkeley)

JayandraSoni (chair), Christine Chojnacki (discussant)

15.00Tea and Coffee: Brunei Gallery Suite

Fourth Session: Jaina Studies and the Jaina Community

15.30Shin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki)

Paṇḍits and Monks in Jain Studies

16.00Steven M. Vose (Florida International University, Miami)

From Jainology to Jain Studies…and Back? Toward a Dialogic Approach to Scholarly Engagement with Jain Communities

16.30 Short Break

Fifth Session: Current State of Jaina Studies and Future Prospects

16.45Roundtable Discussion

HampanaNagarajaiah (Bangalore), OlleQvarnström (University of Lund), JayandraSoni (University of Insbruck), Christine Chojnacki, Shin Fujinaga

John E. Cort (chair), Paul Dundas (discussant)

18.00Final Remarks

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