<div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-2223806516610389401gmail-:2aw"><div id="m_-2223806516610389401gmail-:2as" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:343px" aria-controls=":3dl" aria-expanded="false"><div id="m_-2223806516610389401gmail-:2gv"><div id="m_-2223806516610389401gmail-:2gr" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:343px" aria-controls=":3er" aria-expanded="false"><div id="m_-2223806516610389401gmail-:2mu"><div id="m_-2223806516610389401gmail-:2mq" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:343px" aria-controls=":3mh" aria-expanded="false"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Please circulate widely. Apologies for multiple emails.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (online and in-person)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">----------------------------------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">1st Conference on</span></b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">GOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIAN TRADITIONS</span></b><b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">May 15-17, 2024</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Website: <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/oAcOC81V0PTOOgrj0fnWTZs?domain=god-and-consciousness.com" target="_blank">https://www.god-and-consciousness.com/oxford-conference</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Registration: <a href="mailto:god.and.consciousness@gmail.com" target="_blank">god.and.consciousness@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Deadline: May 07, 2024</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">REGISTRATION</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">To register, send an email to <a href="mailto:god.and.consciousness@gmail.com" target="_blank">god.and.consciousness@gmail.com</a>, 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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">THE CONFERENCE</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/LwtfC91WPRTRRj1mXTEY6wR?domain=god-and-consciousness.com/" target="_blank">https://www.god-and-consciousness.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">It is hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and will take place in Worcester College, University of Oxford.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">KEYNOTE TALKS</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• God, Consciousness, and Cosmos: Prospects for a Non-illusory Theistic Monism, Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University, USA)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Of Micropsychism, Memory, and Maheśvara: Utpaladeva on God as the Unifier of Consciousness, Amit Chaturvedi (University of Hong Kong, China)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Is God Conscious? Reflections on Śākta-Śaiva Ideas of Transcendence and Immanence, Gavin Flood (University of Oxford, UK)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Karl Christian Friedrich Krause’s Panentheism and the Vedic Traditions, Benedikt Paul Göcke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Panpsychism and Divine Embodiment, Joanna Leidenhag (University of Leeds, UK)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Does and Could Śaṅkara’s Advaita Vedānta concern itself with the Hard Problem of Consciousness? Anand Jayprakash Vaidya (San Jose State University, USA)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">CONTRIBUTED TALKS</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• A Bare Theism for a Fully General Comparative Philosophy of Religion, Ravi M. Gupta and Mike Ashfield (Utah State University, USA)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• A Comparative Analysis of Brahman and the Anselmian Being: Exploring Divine Concepts through the Bhagavad Gita, Saheba Saxena (University of Lincoln, UK)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Advaita Vedānta and the God-World Relation, Thomas Oberle (University of Alberta, Canada)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Ascending Concepts of God in the Bhagavad-gītā, Ithamar Theodor (Zefat Academic Colege, Israel)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Between Theism and Atheism: A Jain Paradigm of God, Jinesh R. Sheth (University of Mumbai, India)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Can the Bhagavad Gītā Explain the Existence of Consciousness? Akshay Gupta (Independent scholar)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Consciousness, Agency, and Moral Responsibility in Vedānta, Brett Parris (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Decombining Perspectives: A Kashmiri Śaivist View of Cosmopsychism, Munema Moiz (University of Toronto, Canada)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• 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)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Gauḍīya Vaisnavism and Personal Identity: A Reductionist Approach, Alan Herberth (Oxford Centre fo Hindu Studies, UK)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• 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)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Panentheism and the Contradictory God in a Bhedābheda Vedānta Tradition, <span>Ricardo</span> Sousa Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Śiva's Creative Pulsation: A Theistic Understanding of Consciousness and Matter, Klara Margareta Agnes Hedling (University of New Mexico, USA)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• The universe as aṁśa of Brahman: Towards a Viśiṣṭādvaitic existence-cosmopsychism, S Siddharth (Sai University, India)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• The Vaiṣṇava Vedānta approach to subjective awareness, Shivanand Sharma (University of Birmingham, UK)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITEE</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Alan Herbert, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK (chair)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Gabriel Reis de Oliveira, Saint Louis University, USA</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------------------------------------</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• <span>Ricardo</span> Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil (chair)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Yujin Nagasawa, University of Oklahoma, USA</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Monima Chadha, Monash University, Australia</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Swami Medhananda, UCLA and University of Southern California, USA</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Ananya Barua, University of Delhi, India</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">• Dilip Loundo, University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>