International Conference ‘Cosmology and the Self in Ancient India and Ancient Greece’ in Exeter on 9-12 July 2014.
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International Conference ‘Cosmology and the Self in Ancient India and Ancient Greece’ in Exeter on 9-12 July 2014.
Provisional programme
WEDNESDAY 9th JULY
6.30pm Drinks Reception
7.30 pm Dinner
9pm
Richard Seaford (University of Exeter), India and Greece
THURSDAY 10TH JULY
9.15am-12.45 Broad Comparison
9.15-9.45
Nick Allen (Wolfson College, Oxford), The common-origin approach to comparing early Indian and Greek philosophy
9.45am-10.15
Matylda Obryk (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf), A Generic Development of Human Thought. On the causes for similarities between Indian and Greek Thought
10.15am-10.45
Discussion of Allen and Obryk.
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break.
11.15am-11.45
John Bussanich (University of New Mexico), Plato and Yoga.
11.45am-12.15pm
Alexis Pinchard (CNRS and Lycée Militaire d’Aix en Provence), Does the Concept of theôria Fit the Beginning of Indian Thought ?
12.15pm-12.45
Discussion of Bussanich and Pinchard.
12.45 Lunch Break
2pm-5.30 The Self
2-2.30
Paolo Visigalli (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich)
From the Body of the Sacrifice to the Self of the Body: speculations on the “Self” in Vedic India.
2pm-30-3
Greg Bailey (La Trobe University), Ātman and its Transition to Worldly Existence.
3pm-3.30
Discussion of Visigalli and Bailey
3.30-4 Tea break
4pm-4.30
Hyun Höchsmann (East China Normal University, Shanghai), Cosmology, Psyche and Atman in the Timaeus, the Rig Veda and the Upanishads
4.30pm-5
Agnieszka Rostalska (Ghent University), Early theory of the self (ātman) in Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika metaphysics
5pm-5.30 Discussion of Andrade and Rostalska
5.30pm
General discussion if requested.
7.30pm Dinner.
FRIDAY 11TH JULY
9.15am-12 Chariots
9.15am-9.45
Jens Schlieter (University of Berne), Master the Chariot, Master your Self”: Comparing Chariot Metaphors as Hermeneutics for Mind, Self and Liberation in Ancient Greek and Indian Sources.
9.45am-10.15
Alexander Forte and Caley Smith (Harvard University), The Parallel Reception of Traditional Poetry in Early Philosophy.
10.15am-10.45
Paolo Magnone (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), Soul Chariots in Indian and Greek Thought: Polygenesis or Diffusion?
10.45am-11.15
Coffee break
11.15am-12
Discussion of Chariots
12-12.30
Emma Syea (King’s College, London), Nietzsche on Greek and Indian Philosophy.
12.30pm-12.45
Discussion of Syea.
12.45pm-2
Lunch break
2pm-3.30 Cosmic Order
2pm-2.30
Joanna Jurewicz (Warsaw University), Philosophy begins in the Ṛgveda. From experience to abstraction: the Concept of Ṛtá.
2.30pm-3
Aditi Chaturvedi (University of Pennsylvania), Harmonia and Ṛtá.
3pm-3.30
Discussion of Cosmic Order.
3.30pm-4
Tea break
4pm-5.30 Heterodox Schools of thought.
4pm-4.30
Ranabir Chakravarti (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Materialist questioning of the atman/self in the axial age: with special reference to the charvaka/lokayata school.
4.30pm-5
Susmita Basu Majumdar (University of Calcutta), Reading between lines: unfurling the ajivaka religious philosophy.
5pm-5.30
Discussion of Heterodox Schools of thought.
5.30pm
General discussion if requested.
7.30pm Dinner
SATURDAY 12 JULY
9.15am-12 Ethics and Metaphysics
9.15am-9.45
Mik Burley (University of Leeds), Rebirth and ‘Ethicization’ in Greek and South Asian Thought.
9.45am-10.15
Richard Fynes (de Montfort University), The Currency of Merit in Early Buddhism.
10.15am-10.45
Richard Stoneman (University of Exeter), The Greeks on the Justice of the Indians.
10.45am-11.15 Coffee break
11.15am-12
Discussion of Ethics and Metaphysics.
12
General Discussion
1pm Lunch