[SydPhil] Call for Participation: GOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIAN TRADITIONS (online and in-person)

[FRANCISCO MARIANO]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (online and in-person)

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*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://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/oAcOC81V0PTOOgrj0fnWTZs?domain=god-and-consciousness.com

Registration: god.and.consciousness at gmail.com

Deadline: May 07, 2024



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REGISTRATION



To register, send an email to god.and.consciousness at gmail.com, 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.



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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://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/LwtfC91WPRTRRj1mXTEY6wR?domain=god-and-consciousness.com



It is hosted by the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and will take place in
Worcester College, University of Oxford.



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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)



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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)



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ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITEE



• Alan Herbert, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK (chair)

• Gabriel Reis de Oliveira, Saint Louis University, USA



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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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