Sanskrit Language Acts and Worldmaking in Philosophy and Religion

This programme may be subject to minor changes closer to the event date.

 

Day 1 Thursday May 22nd 10.00 to 17.00 Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s Building

Professor Diwakar Acharya (University of Oxford):

‘On creating a translation (Sanskrit to English) and critical edition of a key 7th-century commentary in the Sāṃkhya philosophical tradition, the Yuktidīpikā’

Dr. Geoffrey Ashton (University of San Francisco):

‘Who Quests for Liberation? A Philosophical Interpretation of “Puruṣa-Artha” in the Sāṃkhya Kārikā’

Dr Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford and Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies)

‘A World of Words: Bhartṛhari in the Debate about Names and Things’

Dr Marie-Helene Gorisse (University of Birmingham)

‘The Jain Doctrine of Perspectives: Disambiguating Linguistic Expressions as a Tool for Liberation’

Postgraduate Panel:

Kush Depala (Heidelberg University)

'Sitting with the Divine: Ritual Space, maṇḍalas and Worldmaking in Swaminarayan Tradition(s)'

Ruth McNeil (King's College London)

'Śūnya as Empty, Void, or Space: The Limits of Translation and Phenomenological Experiences of Emptiness'

 

Day 2 Friday May 23rd 10.00 to 16.30 Council Room, King’s Building

Prof. Clare Carlisle (King's College London):

'The Influence of Sanskrit philosophy on the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza'.

Dr Ananya Vajpeyi (CSDS, Delhi, and Ashoka University, India)

‘The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis’

Dr Shalini Sinha (University of Reading)

‘Enacting Worlds, Enacting Selves: Some Aspects of Tantra and Veda’

Dr Karen O’Brien-Kop (King’s College London)
‘Living Dualism and Impossible Embodiment: Samkhya and Scientific Theories of Consciousness’