Dr. Peter Flügel
Dear Friends,
For your information, please find below the preliminary programme of the 8th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS, 23rd-24th March 2006. The conference will be opened with the 6th Annual Jain Lecture by Prof. Johannes Bronkhorst on 'Jainism, window on early India' to be followed by a reception. For further details please consult the website of the Centre of Jaina Studies.
Everyone is welcome!
Yours Peter Fluegel
8th Jaina Studies Workshop: Jainism and Society
School of Oriental and African Studies, 23rd-24th March 2006
Thursday 23rd March 2006, 18.00-19.30, Russell Square, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
The 6th Annual Jain Lecture
Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne)
Jainism, window on early India
Friday 24th March 2006, SOAS, 9.00, Russell Square, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Satya Ranjan Banerjee (University of Calcutta)
Jain society in the reigns of Jain kings
Robert J. Del Bonta (San Francisco)
From Herodotus to the late 18th century: Descriptions of unidentified Jainas
Peter Flügel (SOAS)
Jaina law and the Jaina community
Julia Hegewald (University of Heidelberg)
Domes, tombs and minarets: Islamic influences on Jaina architecture
Dharma Chandra Jain (University of Jodhpur)
The concept of society in Jainism
Ravindra K. Jain (JNU, New Delhi)
Religious response to social unrest: The rise of the Kanji Svami Panth in contemporary Jainism
Sushil Jain (Assumption University, Windsor/Ontario)
Jaina contribution to the science of polity with respect to Somadeva's Nitivakyamtam
Kornelius Krümpelmann (University of Münster)?
The Sthanangasutra: An encyclopaedic text of the Svetambara canon
Werner Menski (SOAS)
Jainism as natural law
Hampa Padmanabaiah Nagarajaiah (University of Bangalore)
The concept of Shastradana in Jainism: Socio-cultural dimensions
Ulrich Oberdiek (Freiburg)
Caste identity of the Agravals in an Uttaranchal market town
Jitendra B. Shah (L.D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad)
Jain Societies in Ahmedabad
Anne Vallely (University of Ottawa)
You are what you eat: Negotiations of identity among contemporary Jains