[SydPhil] Call for Participation: 2nd Conference on 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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*2nd Conference on GOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIAN TRADITIONS*
Antalya Hotel
Rishikesh, India
April 9-11, 2025

Website: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/1NYpCMwGxOt6P8kJgSwfGU8tlgj?domain=god-and-consciousness.com
Registration: god.and.consciousness at gmail.com
Deadline: March 26, 2025

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REGISTRATION

To register, send an email to god.and.consciousness at gmail.com, with the
subject line “Registration at the Rishikesh Conference” by March 26, 2025.
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.
There is no fee to attend the conference.

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KEYNOTE TALKS

• A General Model for (some kinds of) Indian Cosmopsychism, Ricardo
Silvestre (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
• Sri Aurobindo's Evolutionary Cosmopsychism: A Contemporary Defense, Swami
Medhananda, (UCLA and University of Southern California, USA)
• Exclusion and Fundamentality, Catherine Prueitt, (University of British
Columbia, Canada)
• Why Theism(s) Can Help us Unpack the Nature of Consciousness, Loriliai
Biernacki, (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
• Uniqueness of the monotheistic conception of God in Sankaradeva's Eka
Sarana Nam Dharma, Archana Barua, (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,
India)
• Are Buddhas conscious agents?, Monima Chadha, (Monash University,
Australia)

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ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEE

- Prof. Dr. Dr. Benedikt Paul Göcke, Chair for Philosophy of Religion and
Philosophy of Science, Ruhr-University Bochum (chair)
- Dr. Ananya Barua, Hindu College, University of Delhi (local chair)
- Gabriel Reis de Oliveira, Saint Louis University, USA

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

- Yujin Nagasawa, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Joanna Leidenhag, University of Leeds, UK
- Gavin Flood, University of Oxford, UK
- Timothy O'Connor, Indiana University, USA
- Dilip Loundo, University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
- Alan Herbert, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK

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THE CONFERENCE

This is the second 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/xkf3CNLJyQUMLxP6AT4hvUyjsSF?domain=god-and-consciousness.com

It is hosted by the Hindu College, University of Delhi, and will take place
in the Antalya Hotel, Rishikesh, India.
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