The Jaina And The British - Tuebingen University International Workshop

Published: 19.02.2010
Updated: 30.12.2010

Collaboration and Conflict Concealment and Contribution
during the 19th and early 20th century

February 19th / 20th 2010

Tuebingen University (Germany)
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Castle Hohentuebingen
Room 165

Friday February 19th 2010

9:30 Welcoming speech
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Leonhardt (Dean of the Department of Cultural Studies, Tuebingen University)
Dr. Heike Moser (Co-ordinator of the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Tuebingen University)
10:00 Dr. Peter Flügel (SOAS, London)
Changing Self-Perceptions: Reflections on the Social History of Modern Jainism
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Sushil Premchand (PRS Group, Mumbai)
The Life of Premchand Roychand: Wisdom above Riches
12:15 A film of Zafar Hai
Merchant Princes of Bombay
13:00 Lunch
14:00

Prof. Dr. Natarajan Rajalakshmi (Madras University, Chennai)
Economics of Jainism: A Focus on India

14:45 Dr. Hawon Ku (National University, Seoul)
Legal Cases of Shatrunjaya: Shaping Jaina Identity during the 19th Century
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00

Dr. Anna Aurelia Esposito (Wuerzburg University)
An Account of German and Italian Jaina Studies during the 19th and early 20th Century

16:45 Guided Tour: Castle Hohentuebingen
19:00 Dinner (meeting point: "Weinstube Forelle")

Saturday February 20th 2010

9:30

Prof. Dr. John Cort (Denison University, Ohio)
In Search of "Hindu Fiction":
The First "School" of Jain Studies in the U.S.

10:15

Prof. Dr. Leslie Orr (Concordia University, Montreal)
Orientalists, Missionaries and Jains: The South Indian Story

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Bal Patil (Jain Minority Forum, New Delhi, via video transmission)
The Jain Minority Issue

12:15

Dr. Christoph Emmrich (University of Toronto)
Its Usefulness to the Tamil People: the Jaina Text in the Making of Modern South Indian Literary Histories

13:00 Lunch
14:00

Prof. Dr. Mahesh Joshi
(Saurashtra University, Rajkot)
The Contributions of the Jaina in British India

14:45

Gira Shroff-Gratier (Independent Consultant for the European Commission, Brussels)
A Shroff Family: from Moneylenders to international Cosmopolitans

15:30

Coffee Break

16:00

Dr. Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (Tuebingen University)
Alexander Walker of Bowland's "Account of the Jeyn": A starting Point of Jaina-British Encounters

16:45

Final Disscussion

19:00 Dinner (meeting point: "Hotel am Schloss")

Sources
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de//uni/aid/Jaina%20WS.pdf
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