9:00 Coffee and light breakfast
9:45 Opening remarks
10:00 Raja Rosenhagen (Ashoka University & University of Pittsburgh): “Thinking with the Jains: Intellectual Non-Violence and Intellectual Non-Possessiveness”
10:45 Ana Bajželj (UC-Riverside): “Action, Intention, and Violence in the Jain Tattvārthasūtra Tradition”
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia): “Gandhi and the Submerged Depths of Non-Violence”
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Carlos Figueroa (Ithaca College): “Bayard T. Rustin's Ecumenical Faith in Political Action”
2:45 Coffee break
3:00 Jonathan Gold (Princeton): “Nonviolence to Counter Attachment to Social Identity: A Buddhist Idea”
3:45 Janet Gyatso (Harvard)“Buddhist Compassion in Action: Learning to See Animals”
4:30 Group discussion
In-person Registration: https://go.rutgers.edu/philosophiesofnonviolence
Livestream: https://go.rutgers.edu/x4pme5r9
Hosted by the Rutgers Department of Religion’s Alka Siddhartha Dalal Endowment for the Study of Jainism and the Center for Cultural Analysis, with support from Global Asias and the Department of Philosophy