12 December 2024 | Guest lecture by Sreenath VS, IIT Madras

We are pleased to announce an upcoming Guest Lecture hosted by the Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies on 12 December 2024 at 1:30 pm CET in a hybrid format:

  • in person: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Camelot 3.30, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
  • online: send an email to rosina.pastore@ugent.be for the registration

Title of the Lecture: “Exploring the creative world of Ācārya Hemacandra”
Speaker: Prof. Sreenath VS (IIT Madras)

Through this talk we will delve into the Jaina contributions to aesthetics in the work of Hemachandra.

Sreenath VS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, IIT Madras, is a visiting scholar at the Ghent Centre for South Asian Studies this December, and his lecture is part of this appointment.