JAIN ART: From Antiquity to Modernity

Participants & Titles

Julia Hegewald, Manchester UniversityVisualizing Jaina Pilgrimage: Sacred Centres, Temple Cities and Tirtha Patas

Robert J. Del Bonta, Independent scholar,Illustrating Victorious Lives, Jaina Narrative Painting

Catherine Asher, University of MinnesotaNorth Indian Jains in the contemporary world: Temples Newly Built

John Cort, Dennison UniversitySituating Darshan: Seeing the Digambar Jina Icon in 18th and 19th Century North India

Whitney Kelting, Northeastern UniversityJain Stavan and the Imagination of a Jain Landscape

Hawon Ku, Institute of South Asian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, SeoulSacred Space in the Modern and Contemporary Śatruñjaya Paṭa

Phyllis Granoff, Yale UniversityBewitching Beauty: Some Jain Reflections on Art

Tamara Sears, Yale UniversityThe ‘Jackal-like Jains’ of Southern Gopakṣetra: Archaeological Traces in the Rural Periphery

Dipti Khera, Columbia University,Painted Travel Invitations, Poems, and Singing about Urban locales: Visualizing Udaipur within Jain Vijñaptipatras and Gajals in the Mid 18th-early 19th Century

Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at AustinArtfully Carved’: Jain Imagery in Orissa

Elena Preda, Independent ScholarThe Contribution of Jain art to the Sirohi School of Painting

Osmund Bopearachchi, CNRS, Yale UniversitySonya Quintanilla, San Diego Museum of Art