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Please circulate widely. Apologies for multiple emails. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (online and in-person) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Conference on GOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIAN TRADITIONS Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK May 15-17, 2024 Website: https://www.god-and-consciousness.com/oxford-conference Registration: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Deadline: May 07, 2024 -------------------------------------- REGISTRATION To register, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>, with the subject “Registration at the Oxford Conference” by May 07, 2024. The body of the message should contain the following information: (1) full name, (2) institution/country, and (3) type of attendance (in-person or online). Attendance will be guaranteed on a first come, first served basis. -------------------------------------- THE CONFERENCE This the first (hybrid) conference of the project “Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions: Towards a Theistic Theory of Consciousness”, hosted by the Brazilian Association for the Philosophy of Religion and supported by funding totaling $260,000 from the John Templeton Foundation. https://www.god-and-consciousness.com <https://www.god-and-consciousness.com/> It is hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and will take place in Worcester College, University of Oxford. -------------------------------------- KEYNOTE TALKS • God, Consciousness, and Cosmos: Prospects for a Non-illusory Theistic Monism, Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University, USA) • Of Micropsychism, Memory, and Maheśvara: Utpaladeva on God as the Unifier of Consciousness, Amit Chaturvedi (University of Hong Kong, China) • Is God Conscious? Reflections on Śākta-Śaiva Ideas of Transcendence and Immanence, Gavin Flood (University of Oxford, UK) • Karl Christian Friedrich Krause’s Panentheism and the Vedic Traditions, Benedikt Paul Göcke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) • Panpsychism and Divine Embodiment, Joanna Leidenhag (University of Leeds, UK) • Does and Could Śaṅkara’s Advaita Vedānta concern itself with the Hard Problem of Consciousness? Anand Jayprakash Vaidya (San Jose State University, USA) -------------------------------------- CONTRIBUTED TALKS • A Bare Theism for a Fully General Comparative Philosophy of Religion, Ravi M. Gupta and Mike Ashfield (Utah State University, USA) • A Comparative Analysis of Brahman and the Anselmian Being: Exploring Divine Concepts through the Bhagavad Gita, Saheba Saxena (University of Lincoln, UK) • Advaita Vedānta and the God-World Relation, Thomas Oberle (University of Alberta, Canada) • Ascending Concepts of God in the Bhagavad-gītā, Ithamar Theodor (Zefat Academic Colege, Israel) • Between Theism and Atheism: A Jain Paradigm of God, Jinesh R. Sheth (University of Mumbai, India) • Can the Bhagavad Gītā Explain the Existence of Consciousness? Akshay Gupta (Independent scholar) • Consciousness, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Vedānta, Brett Parris (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK) • Decombining Perspectives: A Kashmiri Śaivist View of Cosmopsychism, Munema Moiz (University of Toronto, Canada) • Divine Consciousness as Linguistic Consciousness: The Trika Śaiva adaptation of Bhartṛhari’s levels of language as they relate to divine potency, union, and revelation, Veronica Benjamin (Independent scholar affiliated with Ishvar Parvat Samvidālaya Library, India) • Gauḍīya Vaisnavism and Personal Identity: A Reductionist Approach, Alan Herberth (Oxford Centre fo Hindu Studies, UK) • Looking at the Prakṛti-Puruṣa dichotomy through the lens of Feminist Materialism: A Critique of Western Hegemonic Dichotomies and a New Perspective on Dualism, Sarnali Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) • Panentheism and the Contradictory God in a Bhedābheda Vedānta Tradition, Ricardo Sousa Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) • Śiva's Creative Pulsation: A Theistic Understanding of Consciousness and Matter, Klara Margareta Agnes Hedling (University of New Mexico, USA) • The universe as aṁśa of Brahman: Towards a Viśiṣṭādvaitic existence-cosmopsychism, S Siddharth (Sai University, India) • The Vaiṣṇava Vedānta approach to subjective awareness, Shivanand Sharma (University of Birmingham, UK) -------------------------------------- ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITEE • Alan Herbert, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK (chair) • Gabriel Reis de Oliveira, Saint Louis University, USA -------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE • Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil (chair) • Yujin Nagasawa, University of Oklahoma, USA • Monima Chadha, Monash University, Australia • Swami Medhananda, UCLA and University of Southern California, USA • Ananya Barua, University of Delhi, India • Dilip Loundo, University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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