SOAS - 8th Jaina Studies Workshop,
23-24th March 2006
School of Oriental and African Studies
PROGRAMME
The 6th Annual Jain Lecture
Thursday 23rd March 2006, 18.00-19.30, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
| 18.00 - 19.30 | Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne) | Jainism, window on early India |
Workshop
Friday 24th March 2006 9.00 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
| 9.00 | Welcoming | |
| 9.05 | Robert J. Del Bonta (San Francisco) | From Herodotus to the late 18th century: Descriptions of unidentified Jainas |
| 9.40 | Dharma Chandra Jain (University of Jodhpur) | The concept of society in Jainism |
| 10.15 | Satya Ranjan Banerjee (University of Calcutta) | Jain society in the reigns of Jain kings |
| 10.50 | Tea and Coffee | |
| 11.20 | Sushil Jain (Assumption University,Windsor/Ontario) | Jaina contribution to the science of polity with respect to Somadeva's Nitivakyamrtam |
| 11.55 | Hampa Padmanabaiah Nagarajaiah (University of Bangalore) | The concept of Sastradana in Jainism: Socio-cultural dimensions |
| 12.30 | Kornelius Krümpelmann (University of Münster) | The Sthanangasutra: An encyclopaedic text of the Svetambara canon |
| 13.05 | Lunch | |
| 14.05 | Werner Menski (SOAS) | Jainism as natural law |
| 14.40 | Peter Flügel (SOAS) | Jaina law and the Jaina community |
| 15.15 | Ravindra K. Jain (JNU, New Delhi) | Religious response to social unrest: The rise of the Kanji Svami Panth in contemporary Jainism |
| 15.50 | Tea and Coffee | |
| 16.20 | Ulrich Oberdiek (Freiburg) | Caste identity of the Agravals in an Uttaranchal market town |
| 16.55 | Jitendra B. Shah (L.D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad) | Jain Societies in Ahmedabad |
| 17.30 | Anne Vallely (University of Ottawa) | You are what you eat: Negotiations of identity among contemporary Jains |
| 18.05 | Julia Hegewald (University of Heidelberg) | Domes, tombs and minarets: Islamic influences on Jaina architecture |
| 18.40 | Final Remarks | |
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner |