The daily BBC World Service programme called ‘The Strand’ on 22nd June features the exhibition of Jain artefacts at the V&A. The curator of the display, Nick Barnard, talks about the exhibits in chapter 3.
You can listen to Nick at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0084t6r
The exhibition opened last month in the Nehru Gallery and is the first in a series of exhibitions at museums and galleries round the country.
We are excited to announce that the first Jainpedia exhibition will open on Friday 14th May at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Read the rest of this entry »
Now that the Jainpedia project is gearing up to go live, we are looking to appoint a full-time project manager in the next few weeks. If you’re interested or you know someone who might be keen to apply, please read on. Read the rest of this entry »
Hello, my name is Colin Hynson and I am the Education Adviser on the JAINpedia project. I have been an education adviser to the Institute of Jainology for some years. As part of that role Read the rest of this entry »
Just a quick post to tell everyone that we have received safely the digital images from the Bodleian we ordered.
I was excited to get over 250 beautiful photographs in early January, which are currently being checked to ensure they meet our high standards. Read the rest of this entry »
As the museum consultant for JAINpedia, my main responsibilities are to ensure that an ongoing programme of related events is put together for the project. With this in mind, I have been busy working with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) over the last few months to create an exciting series of activities for the Jainpedia display between 2010 and 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
The college is closing down tomorrow for the holidays so we won’t be around until January 2010.
However… Read the rest of this entry »
Last week I had the opportunity of attending the Arts & Humanities Research Fair at King’s College as a representative of the JAINpedia project. The aim of this Research Fair was to display and talk about the different arts and humanities projects based at King’s. It was an open event that allowed visitors (mainly researchers and students) to explore, talk and learn about the different research projects that are being carried out by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH).
It was a fascinating event that encouraged an exchange of ideas between different projects and allowed many people to hear for the first time about the JAINpedia project and Jainism. The JAINpedia stand, with its bright colours and poster, attracted numerous people who showed great curiosity and interest in the project.
Many students and researchers from King’s found JAINpedia a very positive learning initiative for gaining knowledge about Jainism and making the collections accessible to a wider audience.
We also took the opportunity to show them some of the beautiful digital images of manuscripts that will appear on the JAINpedia website. Everybody looked stunned and we had incredibly positive feedback.
Some students were keen to know more about the different phases of the project and how it has been developed. They looked at images of wireframes, mock-ups, as well as the blog, and we encouraged them to contribute to the blog with comments.
There’s no doubt this Research Fair has brought some valuable exposure of JAINpedia to a wider audience. I really enjoyed the experience, and I would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make this year’s Arts and Humanities Research Fair possible.
As a professor of Indian studies at the Sorbonne, my academic interests include not only Jainism but Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Theravada Buddhism, and Hindi languages and literature of the 20th century. Although I am fully involved with Jainpedia and have worked for some years with the Institute of Jainology and other institutions in the UK on Jain-related projects, my work in Jainism arose only towards the end of my undergraduate career. Read the rest of this entry »
