“Successions of Sovereignty: Digambara Jaina ascetic lineages of early modern Western India”, Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, “Authority, Lineage & Schism”, King’s College London, 21st – 23rd April 2023.
“Ascetic Selves & Worldly Rulers in Early Modern Digambara Jaina Inscriptions”, Panel “Self-Representation and Presentation of Others in Epigraphical Writing”, convened by Annette Schmiedchen, 100. Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Freie Universität Berlin, 12th – 17th September 2022.
“Digambara Memorials from Western India: Beyond the Boundaries of Death & Periodisation”, Conference “Beyond Boundaries: A Celebration of the Work of John E. Cort”, University of California, Davis, 11th – 14th August, 2022.
“The light of knowledge & the fruit of liberation: Linguistic and material metaphors in Digambara ritual practice”, 23rd Jaina Studies Workshop: Jaina Knowledge Systems, Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, London University 10th June 2022,.
“Naked Ideals Dressed up: The Resilience of Practice in the early modern Digambara Jaina Tradition”, Panel “Yes we Jain!” (convened by Heleen De Jonckheere, Basile Leclère, & Tine Vekemans), 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR, IAHR Regional Conference), ‘Resilient Religion’, Pisa, 30th August – 3rd September 2021.
“दिगम्बर जैन परम्परा के इतिहास पर पुनर्विचार, राजास्थान के विशेष संदर्भ में” (“Digambara jaina paramparā ke itihāsa para punarvicāra, rājāsthāna ke viśeṣa saṃdarbha meṃ”, “Rethinking the history of the Digambara Jain tradition, with special reference to Rajasthan”, in Hindi); Conference ‘Global Trends in Humanities & Sciences’, Poddar International College, Jaipur, 15th – 17th April 2021 (online).
“Transnational Lay Asceticism? Seeking Perfection through Mental Purification in Contemporary Vipassanā Praxis”, Kosmoi Conference: ‘Good – Better – Best. Asceticism and the Ways to Perfection’, KU Leuven, 21st – 23rd October 2019.
“Commu(nica)ting Selves: Dancing Devotees & The Practice Theoretical Approach to the Jaina Traditions”, panel ‘Communicating Jainism: Media & Messages’, convened by Tillo Detige, Tine Vekemans, & Heleen De Jonckheere, Annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR), KU Leuven, 18th – 21st September 2017.
“Early Modern Digambara Jainism in Western & Central India: Bhaṭṭārakas & more”, Belgian Indology Day, Ghent University, 10th March 2017.
“Early Modern manuscript culture and literary circles of the Western Indian bhaṭṭāraka saṅghas”, conference ‘The constitution of a literary legacy and the tradition of patronage in Jainism’, University of Lyon III, 15th – 17th September 2016.
“Absence, Agency & Immanence: The Ritual Veneration of Deceased Ascetics as a Technology of the Self in Digambara Jainism”, panel ‘Tomb and Mortuary Relic Worship in South Asia’, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, 21st – 24th November 2015.
“Calling upon the (Un)responsive? Ritual veneration as Contemplative Praxis in Digambara Jainism”, panel ‘Jain Contemplative Praxis: Meditation, Mantra, & Mindfulness’, 13th DANAM conference (Dharma Academy of North America), conference theme ’Contemplative Studies in Dharmic Religions’, Atlanta, 20th – 21st November 2015.
“Dynamics of Reform & Orientalist Discourse in Digambara Jainism”, 21st World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), University of Erfurt, 23rd – 29th August 2015.
“Ascetic Ideals & Guru-bhakti in the Bhaṭṭāraka lineages of Digambara Jainism”, 12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), University of Lausanne, 15th – 19th July 2015.
“Genealogies of Opposition, Archaeologies of Selves and Others: the Digambara Jaina Bhaṭṭārakas”, International Graduate Student Conference on Jain Studies, ‘Jains & The Other: Understanding Religious Identities’, Yale University, 1st – 2nd May 2015.
“Ritual, Devotion & Liberation: The case of the Digambara Bhaṭṭārakas”, workshop ‘Dharma in Jainism’, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, 2nd – 3rd February 2015.
“Venerable Feet: Devotion and Commemoration in Digambara Jainism”, 6th International Indological Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS), Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universität Hamburg, 6th – 8th November 2014.
“Religion as resource, resource as reflex: The ascetic ideal in Digambara Jainism”, workshop ‘Religion as Resource – Local and Global Discourses’, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 18th – 20th July 2014.
“Pluralities of knowledge and multiple ways of learning: The transmission of religious knowledge through Jaina and Buddhist narratives”, panel ‘Parables and Religious Knowledge’, Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), Groningen, ‘Religion and Pluralities of Knowledge‘, 11th – 15th May 2014.
“Worshipping the ideal ascetic, worshipping the ascetic ideal: devotion to asceticism in Digambara Jainism”, 2nd Doctorandi colloquium of Babel (Belgian Association for the Study of Religions), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), 26th March 2014.
“Singing the Praises of the Bhaṭṭārakas: Digambara Hagiographic Compositions from Rājasthān”, 16th Jaina Studies Workshop, ‘Jaina Hagiography and Biography’, Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS, 21st March 2014.
“Taking stories seriously: Jaina narrative literature and re-modeling the study of Jainism”, 7th International Würzburg Colloquium, ’Perspectives of Indian Studies: Exploring Jain Narrative Literature’, University of Würzburg, 30th September – 1st October 2013.
Guest lectures, seminars, public lectures
“Eternal Salutations: pre-20th century CE Digambara Jaina Memorials from Western India.” Online lecture series “Ancient Jainism”, 11th March 2023.
“मेरी यात्रा हिन्दी के साथ” (“Merī yātrā Hindi ke sātha”, “My journey with Hindi”), Webinar organised by the Indian Embassy Brussels in celebration of the Hindi Divas, 14th September 2021 (online).
“<Ontogeny = phylogeny> still? Jain renouncers and ritual & material culture”, Seminar ‘Past and Present Discourses on Religion and Media in South Asian Traditions’, Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2nd June 2021 (online).
“Digambara Jaina Memorial Stones, Naked monks & Crooked Priests, Ritual & the Senses”; Forshungskolloquium Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Ruhr Universität Bochum, 7th December 2020 (online).
“Funerary Monuments of Digambara Jaina Renouncers”, Research seminar, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies / Department of Asian and Islamic Art History (AIK), Universität Bonn, 23rd November 2020 (online).
“‘मुस्लिम काल‘ में दिगम्बर जैन परम्परा” (“‘Muslima kāla’ mēṃ digambara jaina paramparā”, “The Digambara Jaina tradition in the ‘Muslim era’”, in Hindi), Centenary lecture series, Department of Hindi, Banaras Hindu University, 27th June 2020 (online).
“Practicing Theory, Theorising Practice? Theravāda Buddhist Pāli Technical Terms in the Contemporary Teaching of Vipassanā Meditation”, Permanent Training ‘Religious Traditions of India‘, Ghent University, 13th March 2018.
“Against Humanism, with Michel Foucault”, internal seminar, Department of Languages & Cultures, Ghent University, 28th November 2017.
“Nooit alleen in de mensenzee; alleen over de oceaan van het bestaan? Afzondering en onthechting in het Jaïnisme & andere Indische tradities” (“Never alone among the masses; alone across the ocean of existence? Seclusion and detachment in Jainism and other Indian traditions”, in Dutch), Colloquium ‘Op een kier. Over beslotenheid in verschillende religies’ (‘Left ajar: On isolation in various religions’), in the framework of the exhibition ‘Van de wereld – Beelden van beslotenheid en bevrijding / (Un)worldly – Images of seclusion and liberation’, PARCUM, Museum for Religion, Art, & Culture, Park Abbey, Leuven, 21st November 2017.
“Kluizenaars in de discotheek: de rituele & devotionele verering van Digambara-jaïna-asceten” (“Recluse at the Club: The Ritual & Devotional Veneration of Digambara Jain renouncers”, in Dutch), research-based photo display at the photo exposition ‘Unseen Research: Stories about Fieldwork in India’, organised by the Department of Languages & Cultures, Ghent University, Faculty Library Arts & Philosophy, Ghent University, 2nd – 20th October 2017.
“From Bhaṭṭārakas to Ritual Knowledge”, guest lecture, undergraduate course ‘Introduction to Jainism / Jainism. History, Doctrine and the Contemporary World’, SOAS, London, 21st March 2017.
“Op zoek naar tempels & tempelschatten” (“Temple treasure hunts”, in Dutch), WoooW Science Festival, Science Day / Dag van de Wetenschap, MIAT (Museum of Industry, Labour, & Textile), Ghent, 27th November 2016.
“Fanatics vs. Pacifists? Rethinking the fortunes of Digambara Jainism under Muslim rule”, Permanent Training ‘Religious Traditions of India’, Ghent University, 12th April 2016.
“Online Rituals & Glorified Gurus: Devotion in Jainism”, with Tine Vekemans, Seminar ‘Culture in Perspective’, Ghent University, 4th March 2015.
“Researching the Digambara Bhaṭṭārakas”, guest lecture, Vidyabharati College, Karanja, India, 20th January 2015.
“Critical terms of/for a Critical Thinker (Michel Foucault)”, internal seminar, Department of Languages & Cultures, Ghent University, 13th November 2014.
“Digambara Jaina manuscripts from the Bhaṭṭārakas’ bhaṇḍāras of Western India”, doctoral school on Indian Manuscriptology, Ghent University, 13th-17th October 2014.
“Boeddhisme, boeddhisten, boeddhistisch: Inleiding tot het boeddhisme” (“Buddhism, Buddhists, Buddhist: Introduction to Buddhism”, in Dutch), lecture organised by HuisvandeMens Eeklo & Vrijzinnig Centrum Zomerlicht, Zomergem, 28th March 2014.
“India, religies & verhalen: Verhalen over karma en hergeboorte uit boeddhisme en jaïnisme” (“India, religions, & stories: narratives on karma and rebirth from Buddhism and Jainism”, in Dutch), lecture series ‘India. Een wereld van Verhalen’, Ghent University, 13th Nov 2013.
