Dr. James Madaio

• Indické filozofické tradice, zejména Advaita Vedānta
• Historiografie a příčiny moderních hinduistických hnutí
• Indické teorie subjektu, pedagogika a hermeneutika
• Mezikulturní filozofie a dialog

Výuka

• 2019. “A hermeneutics of happiness in medieval Advaita Vedānta”. DANAM panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). San Diego, California, U.S.
  2018. “The Narrative Shape of Orthopraxy: Advaita Vedāntin renunciates at the Early Vijayanagara Kingdom”. The 17th World Sanskrit Conference (International Association for Sanskrit Studies). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2017. “Embodied Conditioning and Dialogical Subjectivity: A Constructive Reading of Latent Tendencies as a Multiplicity of I-positions”. The 50th Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference. Pedagogical University of Cracow, Kraków, Poland.
• 2017. “Questioning oneself through another: Investigative reasoning in the pedagogical dialogues of the Yogavāsiṣṭha”. The 14th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel.
• 2017. “Narrative Selves and Embodied Conditioning: Advaitin Techniques for waking up in the saṃsāric story”. Lectures of the Shivdasani Visiting Fellow. Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
• 2016. “Gnosis as Samādhi? Vidyāraṇya’s integration of yogic praxis with Advaita Vedāntic gnoseology”. Yoga darśana, Yoga Sādhana: International Academic Conference (Modern Yoga Research group), Jagiellonian University. Kraków, Poland.
• 2016. “Making the Implicit, Explicit: Emplotment as Saṃsāra and Soteriological Method in Advaita Vedānta”. Early Modern Hindu Theology Seminar Series, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford University. Oxford, UK
• 2016. “Scriptural Hermeneutics and Narrative Examples in Advaita Vedānta: The Reading of Stories to Determine dharma’”. 41st Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. St. Michael’s College. Cardiff, U.K.
• 2015. “The saṃnyāsin’s path to liberation: sādhana in medieval Advaita Vedānta". DANAM panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2013. “Retrieving Medieval Voices: Swami Vivekananda and the problematic alterity of “Neo’-Vedānta”’. DANAM panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Baltimore, Maryland.
• 2013. “Advaita Vedānta at the Threshold of the Modern Period: Vidyāraṇya and the framing of soteriology”. 30th Annual Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World (STIMW), University of Manchester. Manchester, UK.
• 2013. “Transcending Karma: Embodiment and Liberation in the Jīvanmuktiviveka”. Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion. Kolkata, India.

PUBLIKAČNÍ ČINNOST

Kapitoly v knihách 

• Připravuje se. ‘Transparent smoke in the pure sky of consciousness: emotions and liberation-while-living in the Jīvanmuktiviveka’. Chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Classical Indian Emotions, eds. Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar (London: Bloomsbury).
• 2020 (v tisku). “Neglected Advaitas: The Genealogy of Swami Vivekananda’s Cosmopolitan Theology” chapter 11 in Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy and Relevance, ed. Rita Sherma (Lanham: Lexington Books).
  2019. “Transformative dialogue in the Yogavāsiṣṭha”. Chapter 6 in In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation, and Interpretation, eds. Brian Black and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (London: Routledge).
• 2010. “The Shinto Religion”, chapter 11 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the  World’s Religions, Suheil Bushrui, et al.(Oxford: Oneworld Publications), 239-259.
• 2010. “The Religious Traditions of Ancient Greece”, chapter 4 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Suheil Bushrui, et al.(Oxford: Oneworld Publications), 94-121.

Recenze a jiné vědecké články 

• 2019. “Liberation and Hindu Studies” in The Journal of Hindu Studies 12.1: 1–11.
• 2018. "The Instability of Non-dual Knowing: Post-gnosis sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta" in Journal of Dharma Studies 1(1): 11-30.
• 2017. “Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta” in Religions 8:6.
• 2016. Book Review of Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha), eds., Christopher Key Chapple and Arindam Chakrabarti in Journal of South Asian Studies 32:1 2016.
• 2014. Book Review of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader, ed. Deepak Sarma. Contemporary South Asia 22 (1): 110.
• 2013. Book Review of Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self, eds. Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri,  Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in Journal of Hindu Studies 6:3: 391-393.
• 2010. “The Shinto Religion”, chapter 11 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Suheil Bushrui, et al. (Oxford: Oneworld Publications), 239-259.
• 2010. “The Religious Traditions of Ancient Greece”, chapter 4 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race:  An Introduction to the World’s Religions, Suheil Bushrui, et al. (Oxford: Oneworld Publications), 94-121.