Marie-Hélène Gorisse University of Birmingham
Marie-Hélène Gorisse is Assistant Professor in Jain Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham, where she leads the “Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies”, which enhances the societal impact of Jainism, interfaith and non-violence through continuous engagement with political, cultural and religious institutions. She is a member of the “Jain Philosophy Research Group” and specialises in Jainism and in the way its epistemology and hermeneutics developed in dialogue with other South Asian philosophico-religious traditions.
 
She also works on the contemporary relevance of Jainism as a contributor to global philosophy of religion, as co-PI of the Templeton project “Global Philosophy of Religion: Fundamental Spiritual Reality, Human Purpose, and Living Well”.
 
Shree Nahata University of Oxford

Shree Nahata recently completed his PhD at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests include Buddhist philosophy, Jaina philosophy, and Persian poetry.

Jane Allred University of Alberta

Jane Allred is a Ph.D Candidate in History at the University of Alberta, where she is finishing her dissertation, titled “Pursuing Multifaceted Philology through Vernacular Grammar: A Study of Bhaṭṭākalaṅkadēva’s Karṇātakaśabdānuśāsanam”. Her research more generally focuses on the history of Jainism in Southern India, and Jaina contributions to the histories of linguistics, and to the philosophy of language. Her research has also brought her to history of gender, insofar as it connects to linguistic practices, and she is the author of the forthcoming chapter on Gender and Sexuality in the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Ancient Indian Literature.