JAIN ART: From Antiquity to Modernity

Schedule

5:00pm - KEYNOTE LECTURENalini Balbir, University of Paris, SorbonneThe Kalpasūtra Network Revisited: Text, Commentaries, Manuscripts and Manuscript Paintings

8:30-9:00am - COFFEE & WELCOME
9:00-10:30am
Chair: Koichi Shinohara, Yale UniversityPhyllis Granoff, Yale UniversityBewitching Beauty: Some Jain Reflections on ArtJohn Cort, Dennison UniversitySituating Darshan: Seeing the Digambar Jina Icon in 18 and 19th Century North IndiaWhitney Kelting, Northeastern UniversityJain Stavan and the Imagination of a Jain Landscape

10:30-11:00am - COFFEE

11:00-12:30pm
Chair: Stanley Insler, Yale UniversityHawon Ku, Institute of South Asian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, SeoulSacred Space in the Modern and Contemporary Satruñjaya PataDipti Khera, Columbia UniversityPainted Travel Invitations, Poems, and Singing about Urban Locales: Visualizing Udaipur within Jain vijñaptipatras and Gajals in the Mid 18th-early 19th CenturyJulia Hegewald, Manchester UniversityVisualizing Jaina Pilgrimage: Sacred Centres, Temple Cities and Tirtha Patas

12:30-1:30pm - LUNCH

1:30-3:00pm
Chair: Blake Wentworth, Yale UniversityLisa Owen, University of North TexasWorshipping the Jina Parsvanatha at ElloraJanice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin‘Artfully Carved’: Jain Imagery in OrissaTamara Sears, Yale UniversityThe ‘Jackal-like Jains’ of Southern Gopakṣetra: Archaeological Traces in the Rural Periphery

3:00-3:30pm - COFFEE

3:30-5:00pm
Chair: Andrew Quintman, Yale UniversityCatherine Asher, University of MinnesotaContemporary Jains and Newly Built TemplesRobert del Bonta, Independent scholarIllustrating Victorious Lives, Jaina Narrative PaintingElena Preda, Independent ScholarThe Contribution of Jain art to the Sirohi School of Painting

5:00-5:30pm - GENERAL DISCUSSION
Chair: David Brick, Yale UniversityOsmund Bopearachchi, CNRS, Yale UniversitySonya Quintanilla, San Diego Museum of Art