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Mahāvīra Jayantī Lectures
Elephant Knowledge within the Jain Natural History Writing Tradition (2025)
Lecture by Dr. Andrea Gutierrez
Beyond Religious Toleration: The Jain Haribhadra’s Engagements with Religious Others (2023)
Lecture by Dr. Anil Mundra
Clay Pots, Golden Bracelets & Clean Upper Garments: Causality in Jaina Philosophy (2019)
Ninth Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Photos of Lecture by Dr. Ana Bajzelj
Tantric Meditation in Jainism (2018)
Eighth Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Video of Lecture by Dr. Ellen Gough
Life's Subtlest Forms: The Elements of Jainism (2017)
Seventh Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Video of Lecture by Dr. Kristi L. Wiley
Locating Jainism in Maharashtra (2016)
Sixth Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Video of Lecture by Dr. Whitney Kelting
Jain Ethics in Philosophical Perspective (2015)
Fifth Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Video of Lecture by Dr. Jayandra Soni
An Interior Kingdom: Jain Allegorical Narratives in the Twelfth Century (2014)
Fourth Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Photos of Lecture by Dr. Paul Dundas
Women in Jainism (2013)
Third Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Lecture by Dr. Nalini Balbir
Jain Art - Icons and Iconoclasts in Jainism (2012)
Second Annual Mahavir Jayanthi Lecture
Lecture by Dr. John Cort
Visions of the Conqueror - Jain Art (2011)
Lecture by Dr. Phyllis Granoff
Mahāvīra Nirvāṇa Lectures
The Money Nexus: Jain Bankers and Political Authority in Mughal India (2024)
Lecture by Dr. Sudev Sheth
A Jain Monk in a Buddhist Monastery: Akalaṅka's Critique of Dharmakīrti's Theory of Perception (2023)
Lecture by Dr. Shree Nahata
False Appraisal and Quick Judgement: Problems of Perception in Jain Literature (2022)
Video of Lecture by Dr. Aleksandra (Sasha) Restifo
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Jain Expressions of the Perfected Body: Images from the Smithsonian Institution Exhibition, "Body Image - Arts of the Indian Subcontinent" (2019)
Photos of Lecture by Dr. Debra Diamond
The Spirit of Dialogue: Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict (2018)
Video of Lecture by Dr. Aaron T. Wolf
Jainism, Animal Rights and Veganism (2017)
Video of Lecture by Dr. Gary Francione
Nonviolence: An Educational Imperative (2016)
Video of Lecture by Dr. Tara Sethia
Applying Jain Principles in Medical Practice (2015)
Lecture by Dr. Manoj Jain
International Conference: Acharya Tulsi and the Making of Modern Jainism (2014)
International conference commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of Acharya Tulsi.
Dr. Peter Flugel (SOAS) delivered the keynote address on Acharya Tulsi's Middle Path: Jaina Modernism between Orthodoxy and Reorm
Online Lecture Series on Jain Texts: Ācārāṅga Sūtra*
May 16 - Professor Nalini Balbir (Sorbonne) Monastic Discipline in the Ācārāṅga Sūtra
May 23 - Professor Christopher Chapple (Loyola Marymount) Ethics of Ācārāṅga Sūtra
May 30 - Professor Ellen Gough (Emory University) Enlightenment and Liberation in the Ācārāṅga Sūtra
June 6 - Ven. Samani Unnata Pragya (JVBI) Mahavira in the Ācārāṅga Sūtra
Miscellaneous
Santhara: A Challenge to Indian Secularism?
Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Director: Shekhar Hattangadi
This Blessed Life by Dr. Nirmal Baid
At the Heart of Compassion: Exploring the Principles of Jainism
A special presentation by FIU Jain Studies Faculty.
