Schedule:
- 9:00 AM — Coffee and light breakfast
- 9:45 AM — Opening Remarks
- 10:00 AM — “Thinking with the Jains: Intellectual Non-Violence and Intellectual Non-Possessiveness” — Raja Rosenhagen (University of Pittsburgh & Ashoka University)
- 10:45 AM — “Action, Intention, and the Submerged Deeps in the Jain Tattvārthasūtra” — Ana Bajželj (UC Riverside)
- 11:30 AM — Coffee Break
- 11:45 AM — “Gandhi and the Submerged Deeps of Nonviolence” — Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
- 12:30 PM — Lunch
- 2:00 PM — “Bayard T. Rustin’s Ecumenical Faith in Political Action” — José Cárdenas (Rutgers–New Brunswick)
- 2:45 PM — “Nonviolence to Counter Attachment to Social Identity: A Buddhist Ideal” — Sonam Kachru (Yale University)
- 3:30 PM — “Buddhist Compassion in Action: Learning to See Animals” — Janet Gyatso (Harvard University)
🔗 RSVP for in-person attendance: philosophiesofnonviolence.eventbrite.com
Sponsors:
- Department of Religion’s Alka Siddhartha Dalal Endowment for the Study of Jainism
- Rutgers Center for the Study of Religion
- Co-sponsors: Global Asias (School of Arts and Sciences Signature Area), Department of Philosophy