The 26th Jaina Studies Workshop: Rethinking Jaina history, scripture, and community
Key information
- Date
- Time
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9:00 am to 5:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS University of London
- Room
- Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT)
About this event
The Centre of Jaina Studies (CoJS) at SOAS, University of London, is hosting its 24th CoJS Annual Lecture and its 26th Annual Jaina Studies Workshop on 21–22 March 2025.
The 2025 events are dedicated to Paul Dundas (1952–2023) and thematically inspired by his important 2007 monograph History, Scripture and Controversy in a Medieval Jain Sect.
These events are public and free to anyone interested in Jainism and/or religious traditions.
Contact
Registration
- Register via Google Forms.
Credits of photograph: Peter Flügel: Detail of tīrtha paṭa of Shatrunjaya in private possession
Programme
Friday, 21 March 2025
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 6:00pm | The 24th SOAS Annual Jaina Lecture Olle Qvarnström (University of Lund) |
| 7:30pm | Reception |
Saturday 22 March 2025
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00am | Welcome |
First session | |
| 9:15am | Christopher Key Chapple (Loyola Marymount University) Paul Dundas and the Legacy of Haribhadra Virahāṅka and Yākinīputra |
| 9:45am | Christine Chojnacki (University of Toronto Mississauga) Elephant Treatises in Medieval Romance-Poems: Jain Contribution To Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems |
| 10:15am | Seema Chauhan (Trinity College Dublin) The Emergence of Jain Laity |
| 10:45am | Tea and Coffee |
Second session | |
| 11:15am | Lynna Dhanani (University of California Davis) Itinerancy and the Archives: Investigating Mendicant Networks through Hymns |
| 11:45am | Anchit Jain (University of Delhi) Fashioning the Caityavāsin Polemics: Emerging Parameters of Orthodoxy and Sectarian Attacks |
| 12:15am | John E. Cort (University of Denison) Temples and Icons as History: Ācārya Vijay Dharmsūri and the Foundations of Śvetambar Mūrtipūjak Historiography |
| 12:45am | Group Photo |
| 1:00pm | Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite |
Third session | |
| 2:00pm | Shailesh Shinde (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune) The Colophon Connection: Reconstructing Jaina Prosopography through Manuscript Analysis |
| 2:30pm | Kamini Gogri (Eikam Resonance Foundation, Mumbai) Making Known, The Unknown: Negotiating Issues of Identity |
| 3:00pm | Anett Krause (Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin) The Qalamos Portal - Creating Digital Access to Historical Sources with a Focus on Jaina Studies |
| 3:30pm | Tea and Coffee |
Fourth session | |
| 4:00pm | Peter Flügel (SOAS) Lineages of the Loṅkāgaccha |
| 4:30pm | Priyanka Shah (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad) Decoding Role-Distributions in Pratiṣṭhā Events Recorded in Jaina Donative Inscriptions |
| 5:00pm | Purvi Mahendra (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad) Jaina Image Inscriptions in Ahmedabad Revisited |
| 5:30pm | Jolly Sandesara (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad) The Nandimahotsava as an Event |
| 6:00pm | Closing Remarks |
