Video recording of each presentation at the May Conference is presented below. Viewers may email any questions they may have on the presentations to conf@vedantaforum.org. We will try and get answers from the presenters and email them back.
Day 1: Session Topic - SSS works ( 8 videos).
Anantanand Rambachan Reconsidering the Significance of Upanishad Creation Texts; Ivan Andrijanić Distinguishing Śaṅkara from Post-Śaṅkara Advaita: The contribution of SSS; Ankur Barua Does my laptop exist when I sleep? Revisiting a vexed theme in SSS; Gianni Pellegrini SSS Critique of Bhāmatī (Tentative). Ira Schepetin Does the Jñani see the world? Dilip Loundo Method (prakiryā) and Reality (tattva) - SSS Three-layered Reason (tarka); Manjushree Hegde On the question of two Brahmans: SSS; Panel Discussion: Aleksandar Uskokov and Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Day 2: Session Topic - SSS works (contd.. 2 videos. 1 more to be added)
Niranjan Saha Post-Shankara subschools and Madhusudana Sarasavti; Subhanu Saxena Sureśvara’s influence on SSS (video not available now); Sthaneshwar Timalsina Creation and the created: A monistic approach.
Day 2: Session Topic - Keynotes and Dialog ( 3 videos)
Swami Sarvapriyananda A Logico-Phenomenological Meditation on Consciousness; Robert Thurman Vedanta and Madhyamika - convergence and divergence; Discussion Moderator: Mukunda Raghavan
Day 2: Session Topic - Benefits ( 2 videos)
Satinder Dhiman Mindfulness and Vedanta in workplace, management and leadership; Lee Hartwell Education and Mindfulness; Stephen Smale Problem 18 and limits of intelligence (video missing)
Day 2: Session Topic AI and Advaita ( 3 videos)
S. N. Sridhar Challenges to translating medieval texts: Example of Kumāravyāsa; Kush Varshney Advaita Approach to Agentic AI Governance. Panelists: Lav Varshney, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Thomas Felber
Day 3: Papers from Open Call for Papers ( 5 videos)
Śrī Davide Persechini SSS's Pañcapādikāprasthāna: A Critical Analysis; Śrī Purushottam Pant Akaṇḍākāravr̥tti in Advaita Vedānta: A Critique; Pijus Kanti Pal SSS on Gītā Chapter 16; Raghunandan SSS on Vivekacūḍāmaṇi; Svāmī Thathagathānanda On the Nārada Bhakti Sūtras: An Analysis of Bhakti Candrikā Vyākhyā.