Program
International Conference on Vedanta
May 19-21
On Works of Svāmī Saccidānandendra Sarasvatī (SSS)
and Comparative Philosophy, Practical Life, AI and Texts
General Chair: Prof. Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Program Chair: Dr. Manjushree Hegde
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Place: NCS 120, Engineering Dr, Stony Brook, NY 11794
May 19 Tuesday 8:30am - 5:15pm
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
Morning Session: 9am - 12:30pm
9:00 - 9:30 Conference Inauguration
9:30 - 12:30 Invited Talks
Prof. Anantanand Rambachan
Saint Olaf College — Professor Emeritus of Religion
Title: TBD
Dr. Ivan Andrijanić
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences — Chair of Indology
Title: Distinguishing Śaṅkara from Post-Śaṅkara Tradition (Tentative)
Dr. Ankur Barua
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity — Senior Lecturer in Hindu Studies
Title: Does my laptop exist when I sleep? Revisiting a vexed theme in Svāmī Satchidānandendra Sarasvatī
Dr. Gianni Pellegrini
Università degli Studi di Torino — Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities
Title: SSS Critique of Bhāmatī (Tentative)
Sri. Ira Schepetin (Musta Ram / Ātma Chaitanya)
Independent scholar; first Western disciple of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati.
Title: TBD
Discussion on morning talks
12:30 - 02:00pm Lunch
Afternoon Session: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Prof. Dilip Loundo
Center for Study of Religions and Philosophies of India. Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Title: TBD
Dr. Manjushree Hegde
IIT Madras Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita Darshanam); also, Mythik Inc.
Title: On the question of two Brahmans: SSS
Sri. Michael Chandra Cohen
Retd. Faculty City University of New York
Title: Dṛṣṭi-Sṛṣṭi-Vāda: A Departure from Śaṅkara
Panel Discussion:
Moderators
Prof. Aleksandar Uskokov
Yale University — Graduate School of Religious Studies and
Prof. Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities; Director, Center for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
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5-5:15pm Closing Remarks
International Conference on Vedanta
May 19-21
On Works of Svāmī Saccidānandendra Sarasvatī (SSS)
and Comparative Philosophy, Practical Life, AI for Texts
May 20 Tuesday 8:30am - 5:15pm
Place: NCS 120, Engineering Dr, Stony Brook, NY 11794
8:30 - 9am Registration
Morning Session: 9am - 12:30pm
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 -11:00 Invited Talks
Keynote Addresses: Vedanta and Comparative Philosophies
Sri. Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York — Resident Minister, Monk Ramakrishna Order. Author, Teacher.
Title; A Logico-Phenomenological Meditation on Consciousness
Padmashree Prof. Robert Thurman
Columbia University (USA) — Emeritus Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies; co-founder Tibet-House US
Title: Vedanta and Madhyamika - convergence and divergence
Discussion and Q/A: Moderator - TBA
Invited Talks 11am-12:30
Dr. Greg Goode
New York (USA) -- Author, Teacher, Independent Scholar.
Title: (tentative) Non-duality, Direct Path, Vedanta, Buddhism, Western Philosophy.
Sri. Subhanu Saxena
Chair, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan UK. Director Life Sciences at Gates Foundation.
Title: Sureśvara’s influence on SSS
Prof. Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities;
Ttitle: Modern Classical Vedanta of SSS
Lunch
Afternoon Session 2:00 - 4:30pm
Practical Applications: Vedanta and Mindfulness
Session Chair: Prof. Indika Rajapakse
Prof. Satinder Dhiman
Woodbury University (Burbank, CA, USA) — Professor of Management, Chair and Director of MBA Program
Title: Mindfulness and Vedanta in workplace, management and leadership.
Prof. Lee Hartwell
Arizona State University (USA) -- Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine (2001). Professor ASU Sustainability Science. Faculty Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Title: Education and Mindfulness.
Discussion and Q/A: Moderator - TBA
Panel discussion: AI for texts - Multilingual translation and interpretation
Panelists:
Prof. Shikaripur N. Sridhar
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of Linguistics and India Studies and founding Director of the Mattoo Center for India Studies at Stony Brook.
Prof. Niranjan Balasubramanian
CS Dept, SUNY Stony Brook.
Dr. Anoop Kunchukuttan, Microsoft and AI4Bharat
Scholars from Day 1 (Dr. Hegde, Dr. Andrejić, Prof. Pelligrini and others)
Dr. Partha Talukdar (Invited, to be confirmed) Google.
Sri. Thomas Felber Author SanGPT
4:30 Closing Remarks
International Conference on Vedanta
May 19-21
On Works of Svāmī Saccidānandendra Sarasvatī (SSS)
and Comparative Philosophy, Practical Life, AI for Texts
May 21 Tuesday 8:30am - 12noon
9 - 11am
RESEARCH PAPERS from Open Call: SSS Works
Śrī Davide Persechini
Università degli Studi di Torino — Doctoral Researcher (Dottorando), Dept. of Humanities.
Title: SSS's Pañcapādikāprasthāna: A Critical Analysis
Śrī Purushottam Pant Independent Researcher.
Title: Akaṇḍākāravr̥tti in Advaita Vedānta: A Critique
Dr. Pijus Kanti Pal Asst Coordinator Indian Knowledge Systems Divn., Ministry of Education, New Delhi India.
Title: SSS on Gītā Chapter 16
Śrī Raghu Nandan Independent researcher.
Title: SSS on Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
Śrī R S Vaidyanathan Brahma Vidya Kutir, Hyderabad and Ph.D student Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Title: On the Nārada Bhakti Sūtras: An Analysis of Bhakti Candrikā Vyākhyā through its Sanskrit Translation.
11am - 12noon Closing Ceremony
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Now Conclude --
Call for Papers. Click below
Please note brief abstract is due December 15, 2025.
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