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*2nd Conference on GOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN INDIAN TRADITIONS* Antalya Hotel Rishikesh, India April 9-11, 2025 Website: https://www.god-and-consciousness.com/rishikesh-conference Registration: god.and.consciousn...@gmail.com Deadline: March 26, 2025 -------------------------------------- REGISTRATION To register, send an email to god.and.consciousn...@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. -------------------------------------- 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) -------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------- 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://www.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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