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10th Jaina Studies Conference at SOAS on "Jaina Art & Architecture' on 6-7 March 2008
School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS), Russell Square, London WCIH OXG SOAS is organizing a Annual Jain Lecture on New Approach to the Study of Jaina Art and Architecture at its Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre on 6-7 March 2008. The Keynote will be addressed by Prof. Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari, Professor at Department of History of Art, Banaras Hindu University. The conference is co-organized and co-sponsored by the Centre of Jaina Studies at SOAS, the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lund (www.sasnet.lu.se/indrellund.html) and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (www.vam.ac.uk). The conference is free and open to everyone. The conference will welcome sponsorship, which will be recognized in the conference programme. Please contact Dr Peter Flugel for more information, on
pf8@soas.ac.uk
International School for Jaina Studies (ISSJS)
Collaboration to Harvard University, USA
ISSJ has achieved a major mile stone this year by getting collaboration with Harvard University of USA University of Otawa Canada is already partner of ISSJS in Canada. ISSJS started with just 7 scholars in 2005 and due to its dedication to the spread of Jain studies the number of students were reached in 2007 as 33 and now it is expected to cross the number of 50 in 2008. Scholars coming from USA, Canada, Russia, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia ( more than 85% from North America) and represented about 20 university from six countries. ISSJS Progress Report 2007
1. Five alumni of ISSJS have already started offering regular classes in Jainism at their school/university. Last year, nearly 500 students were exposed to Jainism and its philosophy at these colleges.
2. Four college level textbooks or chapters on Jainism by a few scholars are in preparation already.
