Dr. James Madaio

PUBLICATIONS   

Monograph

• Advaita Vedānta and the Story of Liberation: Vidyāraṇya’s Narrative Philosophy. Forthcoming (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Edited Volumes

• Provincialising Pluralism: Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions. Co-edited with Brian Black (Lancaster University). In press, Bloomsbury Academic.
• The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Non-duality in Indian Thought. Co-edited with Jonathan Duquette              (Cambridge University). Forthcoming (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic). 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• ‘The Narrative Shape of Orthopraxy: Storytelling, dharma, and the path to liberation in Advaita Vedānta’.              The Journal of Hindu Studies (2021), 14.3, pp. 326–377. doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiab029
• ‘The Instability of non-dual knowing: Post-gnosis sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta’. Journal of Dharma     Studies (2018) 1.1, pp. 11-30. doi.org/10.1007/s42240-018-0005-5
•  ‘Rethinking Neo-Vedānta: Swami Vivekananda and the Selective Historiography of Advaita Vedānta’. Religions       (2017) 8.6, pp. 1-12. doi.org/10.3390/rel8060101

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• ‘Neglected Advaitas: The Genealogy of Swami Vivekananda’s Cosmopolitan Theology’ chapter 11 in Vivekananda: His Life, Legacy and Liberative Ethics, ed. Rita Sherma (New York: Lexington Books: 2021), pp.175-192.
• ‘Transparent smoke in the pure sky of consciousness: emotions and liberation-while-living in the Jīvanmuktiviveka’ Chapter 7 in The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy, eds. Maria Heim, Roy Tzohar, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp.153-172.
• ‘The Instability of non-dual knowing: post-gnosis sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta’. Chapter 8 in              Contemplative Studies in Hinduism: Meditation, Reflection, Ritual and Prayer, eds. Purushottama Bilimoria and Rita Sherma (New York: Routledge: 2020), pp. 99-122.
• ‘Transformative dialogue in the Yogavāsiṣṭha’. Chapter 6 in In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter,  Transformation, and Interpretation, eds. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad and Brian Black (London: Routledge, 2019), 107-129.

Other Publications

• ‘ Non-duality and Cross-Cultural Philosophy’ (co-authored with Jeffrey D. Long). Journal of Dharma Studies(2024)7, pp. 1–4.  doi.org/10.1007/s42240-024-00169-w
• ‘Liberation and Hindu Studies’. The Journal of Hindu Studies (2019) 12.1, pp. 1–11 doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiz006        
•  ‘Vernacular Hinduisms: Texts, Traditions, and Transformations’ (co-authored with James Bradbury). The Journal of  Hindu Studies (2020) 13.2, pp. 91-100. doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiaa014
• ‘The Shinto Tradition’. Chapter 11 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s           Religions (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2010), pp. 239-259.
•  ‘The Zoroastrian Tradition’. Chapter 5 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An Introduction to the World’s   Religions (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2010), pp. 123-139.
•  ‘The Religious Traditions of Ancient Greece’. Chapter 4 in The Spiritual Heritage of the Human Race: An     Introduction to the World’s Religions (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2010), pp. 94-121. Book Reviews

Book Reviews

•  Engaged Emancipation: Mind, Morals, and Make-Believe in the Mokṣopāya (Yogavāsiṣṭha), eds., Christopher Key     Chapple and Arindam Chakrabarti. Journal of South Asian Studies (2016) 32.2, pp. 199-202.                                     doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2016.1172816 
•  Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader, ed. Deepak Sarma. Contemporary South Asia (2014) 22.1, p. 110.                    doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2014.880239
•  Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self, eds. Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and   Irina Kuznetsovaet. Journal of Hindu Studies (2013) 6.3, pp. 391-393.                                           doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hit034

GRANTS AND RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Strategy AV21 (Czech Academy of Sciences): 2025 grant for mapping Czechoslovak Engagement with ‘the Orient’: occultists, artists and spiritualists at the fin de siècle
• Czech Science Foundation (GAČR): 2021-2024 grant for project entitled ‘The transnational entanglements of global Hinduism’ (Grant #21-31380S).
• Strategy AV21 (Czech Academy of Sciences): 2002 grant to host colleagues from India working on Indian philosophy and to pursue institutional partnerships with Indian institutions.
• Strategy AV21 (Czech Academy of Sciences): 2020 grant to organize an international workshop in Prague on the theme of ‘Pluralism and Plurality in Contemporary and Classical Indian Traditions’.
• Strategy AV21 (Czech Academy of Sciences): 2019 to organize an international workshop in Prague on the theme of ‘Subjectivity and its Modes of Expression in Indic traditions’.
• Israel – Czech Republic Cooperative Initiative: 2018 grant for working trip to Israel.

TEACHING

• 2019. Lecturer, Ancient and Classical Indian Religious Traditions, Department of Asian Studies, Charles University
• 2013. Co-Lecturer, Indian Philosophy, University of Manchester 
• 2012. Graduate Teaching Assistant, Religion in Modern South Asian History, University of Manchester
• 2005-2007. Co-Lecturer, World Religions, Honors Department, University of Maryland 

CONFERENCE AND PANEL ORGANISATION

• Organizer (with Pawel Odyniec) of roundtable ‘Practices of Self-transformation in Indian Philosophy’. 25^th World Congress of Philosophy (WCP). Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. 1-8 August 2024.
• Organizer of six-paper panel ‘The Plurality of Non-Duality: Theological, Contemplative, and Ethical Approaches to Identity and Non-Difference’. Dharma Academy of North America panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Denver, Colorado, United States 19-22 November 2022.
• Organizer (with Brian Black) of International Seminar Series on Pluralism in South Asia. Papers distributed before each one-hour seminar session (via Zoom). February-July 2021.
• Organizer of International conference: ‘Pluralism and Plurality in Contemporary and Classical Indian Traditions’. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic (via Zoom).18-19 September 2020.
• Organizer (with Agnieszka Rostalska) of five-paper panel ‘Subjectivity, Feelings and Emotions in Classical Indian Religions’. Dharma Academy of North America panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR). San Diego, California, U.S. 22 November 2019.
• Organizer of International Conference: ‘Subjectivity and its Modes of Expression in Indic traditions’. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. 9-10 May 2019. 

SERVICE AND ESTEEM INDICATORS 

• Editorial Board, Journal of Dharma Studies, Springer Publishing. 2022-currently.
• Council of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (elected member), 2002-currently.
• Editorial Board, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Mandala Publishing Series, Mandala Publishing (Simon & Schuster), 2022-currently.
• Committee of the Oriental Institute Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2023-currently.
• Academic Steering Committee, Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM), 2017-2023.
• Hiring Committees, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024.
• Curriculum Development Board, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford. Recruitment, planning, and academic review of continuing education courses. 2020-2021.

SELECT CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES

• ‘Image, Screen, and Awareness: Philosophical Resources for Ecological Non-Dualism’. International Theosophical History Conference. Ascona, Switzerland. 17 November 2024.
• ‘How to Become a Yogi: Literary Resources and the Pedagogy of Bliss in the Pañcadaśī’ (co-delivered with Pawel Odyniec). 25^th World Congress of Philosophy. Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. 6 August 2024.
• ‘Others without otherness’.  Invited lecture at Krea University, Andhra Pradesh, India. 28 February 2024.
• ‘Ramchandra Gandhi and the Mirror of Consciousness’.  The Daya Krishna Lectures on Philosophy. Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India. 29 January 2024.
• ‘Consciousness as Self-Revealing Play in the Advaita of Ramchandra Gandhi’. Global Philosophy Research Group. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 20 October 2023.
• The techné of attention: reality and transformative technique in medieval Advaita Vedānta’. Spiritual Exercises, Self-transformation and Liberation conference. Karlstad University, Karlstad Sweden.  22-24 May 2023.
• ‘The līlā of communication and consciousness’. Invited lecture at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India. 14 April 2023.
• ‘Consciousness only’ as discipline and disposition’. Dharma Academy of North America panel, American Academy of Religion (AAR). Denver, Colorado, United States. 19-22 November 2022.
• ‘Plurality and the Other in Ramchandra Gandhi’s Hermeneutics of Being’. Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia. 12-14 May 2022.
• ‘Oneself camouflaged as the Other: Ramchandra Gandhi on Communication and Self-imaging Play’. Alienation, Independence and Liberation in Contemporary Indian Philosophy workshop. Universität Tübingen. Tübingen, Germany. 13 December 2021.
• ‘The Sanctified Surrealism of Sītā’s Kitchen’. Pluralism and Plurality in Classical and Contemporary India conference. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.  18 September 2020.
• ‘A hermeneutics of happiness in medieval Advaita Vedānta’. Dharma Academy of North America panel, American Academy of Religion (AAR). San Diego, California, United States. 22 November 2019.
• ‘Bliss at the borders of subjectivity: ānanda as unconcealment in the Pañcadaśī’. Subjectivity and its Modes of Expression in Indic Traditions. Czech Academy of Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic. 9 May 2019.
• ‘Smoke in the pure sky of consciousness: emotions and liberation-while-living in the Jīvanmuktiviveka’. Emotions in Classical Indian Thought. Amherst College, Massachusetts, United States. 22 September 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. 13 July 2018.
• ‘A classical Indian conception of conditioned persona in relation to dialogical self theory: Situating a multiplicity of I-positions within a non-dual therapeutic paradigm’.  The 10th International Conference on the Dialogical Self. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 15 June 2018.
• ‘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. 10 June 2018.  
• ‘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. 24 May 2018. 
• ‘Outer and Inner dialogues as transformative disciplines in the Yogavāsiṣṭha’. The Dialogical Indian: Encounters in Premodern Sources. University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom. 5-7 July 2017. 
• ‘Gnosis as Samādhi? Vidyāraṇya’s integration of yogic praxis with Advaita Vedāntic Gnoseology’. Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana: International Academic Conference. Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. 20 May 2016. 
• Narratives selves and embodied conditioning: Advaitin techniques for waking up within the saṃsāric story’. Lectures of the Shivdasani Visiting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2 March 2017.  
• Moral Reasoning through Narratives: dharma and exegesis in medieval Advaita Vedānta’. Lectures of the Shivdasani Visiting Fellow. Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 9 Feb 2017.
• ‘Making the Implicit, Explicit: Emplotment as Saṃsāra and Soteriological Method in Advaita Vedānta’. Early Modern Hindu Theology Seminars. Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2 May 2016.
• Scriptural Hermeneutics and Narrative Examples in Advaita Vedānta: The Reading of Stories to Determine dharma’. 41^st Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. St. Michael’s College, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. 16 April 2016. 
• ‘The saṃnyāsin’s path to liberation: sādhana in medieval Advaita Vedānta’. Dharma Academy of North America panel, American Academy of Religion (AAR). Atlanta, Georgia, United States. 20 November 2015. 
• ‘The Contested Category of “Neo-Vedānta”: Swami Vivekananda and the Multivocality of Pre-Colonial Advaita Vedāntic Traditions’. Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. 16 May, 2014. 
• ‘Retrieving Medieval Voices: Swami Vivekananda and the problematic alterity of “Neo-Vedānta”’. Dharma Academy of North America panel, American Academy of Religion (AAR). Baltimore, Maryland, United States. 22 November 2013. 
• ‘Advaita Vedānta at the Threshold of the Modern Period: Vidyāraṇya and the framing of soteriology’. 30^th Annual Sanskrit Traditions in the Modern World (STIMW) conference. University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. 31 May 2013. 
• ‘Transcending karma: Embodiment and liberation in the Jīvanmuktiviveka’. International Conference of the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion. Kolkata, India. 3 January 2013.