Saturday, October 26, 2013
Venue: The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanitites, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Prof. Alexander von Rospatt | Prof. Lawrence Cohen | Prof. Penny Edwards
VIDEO
9:30-10:30 Panel 1 
Chair: Sally S. Goldman		 Phyllis Granoff - The Stages of Life. VIDEO | PPT
Olle Qvarnström - Jain and Buddhist Critique of Samkhya Philosophy. VIDEO
10:50-12:10

 

 Panel 2 
Chair: John Cort

 

 Paul Dundas - Hemacandra Maladharin's Allegorical Narratives.  VIDEO
Padmanabh Jaini - A South Indian Jaina Rathayātrā in Tulu Nadu: Jain Bramanical Priests and Brahminisation of Temple Rituals. VIDEO | PPT
1:10-2:30

 

 Panel 3 
Chair: Robert Goldman
 		 Peter Flügel - Wishful Thinking: The Padmāvatī Shrine at Humcha.
John Cort: Digambar Jains in Gujarat. VIDEO | PPT
2:50-5 pm

 

 Panel 4 
Chair: Phyllis Granoff

 

 Robert Goldman - Ahiṃsā Warriors: Epic Heroes and Avatāras in Jaina Narrative Literature. VIDEO
Kristi Wiley - Nigodas Revisited. VIDEO | PPT
Alexander von Rospatt - Beyond Jainism. Reflections on the survival of Indic Buddhism in Nepal. VIDEO