Inaugural Session (4:30-5:05 PM)
Auspicious Invocation
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Sriman Krishna Keshava Prabhu
(Philosophy Student at Stockton University, NJ, USA; Serving Assistant, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA)
(4:30-4:35 PM)
| Welcome Address By Conference Chair
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Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.
(Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA)
(4:35-4:45 PM) | | Address By Guest of honour | 
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Goswami Maharaja
(Śrī Chaitanya Sāraswat Maṭh’s Present-Sevāite-Āchārya)
(4:45-4:50 PM) | | Address By Guest of honour | 
Brian J. Ford
(Fellow of Cardiff University & President Emeritus of Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Cambridge University, UK)
(4:50-4:55 PM) | | Address By Chief Guest | 
V. M. Tiwari, Ph.D.
(Director, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India)
(4:55-5:00 PM) | | Vote of Thanks | 
M. Chandrasekharam, Ph.D.
(Sr. Principal Scientist, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, President IGNA)
(5:00-5:05 PM) |
Keynote Speech (5:05-6:00 PM)
| Unity of Thought and Empirical Knowledge |
Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.
(Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA)
Talk: 5:05-5:45 PM
Q/A: 5:45-6:00 PM
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S. R. Bhatt, Ph.D.
(Eminent Philosopher & Sanskritist; Ex-Chairman of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, India)
| Session Chair |
Session: Transcending the Illusionary Concept of Reality (6:00-8:30 PM)
| Malign Mechanicals and the Denied Reality of the Sentient Cell |
Brian J. Ford
(Fellow of Cardiff University & President Emeritus of Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Cambridge University, UK)
Talk: 6:00-6:40 PM
Q/A: 6:40-6:50 PM
| | Transcending the Illusion of Subject-Object /Mind-Body Dichotomy through Vedic view of Teleological Unity in Organic Whole | 
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D.
(Gen. Secretary, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India)
Talk: 6:50-7:30 PM
Q/A: 7:30-7:40 PM | | Microbes at the Limit of Life | 
Hans-Peter Grossart, Ph.D.
(Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin, Germany)
Talk: 7:40-8:20 PM
Q/A: 8:20-8:30 PM | 
J. Scott Jordan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair Director, Institute for Prospective Cognition, Dept. Psychology, Illinois State University, USA
| Session Chair |
| Session: Deeper Structures of Reality (4:30-6:30 PM)
| Accessing Deeper Structures of Reality Through a Unified Consciousness | 
David Lorimer
(Chair, Galileo Commission, Programme Director, Scientific and Medical Network, United Kingdom)
Talk: 4:30-4:50 PM
Q/A: 4:50-5:00 PM
Athena Despoina Potari, Ph.D.
(Fellow of Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), Harvard University, USA; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford)
Talk: 5:00-5:20 PM
Q/A: 5:20-5:30 PM
Joan Walton, Ph.D.
(Senior Lecturer, School of Education/Ph.D. Supervisor York St John University, United Kingdom)
Talk: 5:30-5:50 PM
Q/A: 5:50-6:00 PM
Panel Discussion on the Session:
6:00-6:30 PM
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Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D.
(President, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India)
| Session Chair |
Session: Beyond Subject-Object Duality (6:30-8:30 PM)
| Ontological Position of Personality - Why science is unable to comprehend the concept of Person |
Bhakti Vijnana Muni, Ph.D.
(President, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India)
Talk: 6:30-7:00 PM
Q/A: 7:00-7:10 PM
| | Transcending the Subject Object Dualiy |
S. R. Bhatt, Ph.D.
(Eminent Philosopher & Sanskritist; Ex-Chairman of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, India)
Talk: 7:10-7:40 PM
Q/A: 7:40-7:50 PM | | Science and Being: Closing the Epistemic Gap |
J. Scott Jordan, Ph.D.
(Professor and Chair Director, Institute for Prospective Cognition, Dept. Psychology, Illinois State University, USA)
Talk: 7:50-8:20 PM
Q/A: 8:20-8:30 PM |
Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D.
(Gen. Secretary, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, Bengaluru, India)
| Session Chair |
| Session: Mind-Body Probelms in Medical Sciences (4:30-6:00 PM)| Mindfulness: The science of exploring mind-body interactions to fight disease and improve holistic health | 
Sundeep Mishra, M.D.
(Professor of Cardiology, All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India)
Talk: 4:30-4:55 PM
Q/A: 4:55-5:00 PM
| | Spirit Manifests Itself in Humans Through Tangible Heart Pulsations and Activates of Primary and Secondary Senses | 
Tina Lindhard, Ph.D.
(Psychology, Consciousness Studies, International University of Professional Studies (IUPS), Maui, Hawaii, USA)
Talk: 5:00-5:25PM
Q/A: 5:25-5:30 PM | Mind-Body relationship from a Ayurvedic Perspective
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Deba Prasad Dash, M.D. (Ay.)
(Retd. Professor & Head, Dept. Panchakarma, Gopabandhu Ayurveda College, Puri, Odisha, India)
Talk: 5:30-5:55PM
Q/A: 5:55-6:00 PM | 
Medicharla Venkata Jagannadham, Ph.D.
(Professor, School of Life Sciences Central University, Hyderabad, India)
| Session Chair |
Session: Life and Consciousness (6:00-8:00 PM)
| The Impersonal Study of Reality in the form of Atoms and Molecules Cannot Help Us to Understand the Organic Unity that We Find in Life | 
Sumangala Devi Dasi, Ph.D.
(Researcher, Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)
Talk: 6:00-6:25 PM
Q/A: 6:25-6:30 PM
| | How Do Animals Understand Their Requirements and Manifest Social Behavior? |
Medicharla Venkata Jagannadham, Ph.D.
(Professor, School of Life Sciences Central University, Hyderabad, India)
Talk: 6:30-6:55 PM
Q/A: 6:55-7:00 PM | | Reconstructing Dualism: Consciousness Beyond Cartesianism | 
Ranjan K. Panda, Ph.D.
(Professor, Dept. Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India)
Talk: 7:00-7:25 PM
Q/A: 7:25-7:30 PM | | The Process of Subject-Object Cognition in Gaudiya Vaisnava Theology | 
Sripad Bhakti Kamal Tyagi Maharaja
(Serving Devotee Scholar, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip, India)
Talk: 7:30-7:55 PM
Q/A: 7:55-8:00 PM | 
Vaidya Jayathirtha Rao, Ph.D.
(CSIR-Emeritus Scientist: Organic Chemistry Division II/Crop protection Chemicals)
| Session Chair |
Session: Different Perspectives on Consciousness (8:00-9:40 PM)
| Yoga Science Models for Consciousness Research | 
B.V.K. Sastry
(Founder President, Yoga-Samskrutam Univesity, Sarasota, Florida, USA)
Talk: 8:00-8:15 PM
Q/A: 8:15-8:20 PM
| | Life, Matter and Consciousness: A Vedic Perspective | 
Suvasini Devi Dasi, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Physics from University of Bristol, U.K.; Serving Devotee Scholar, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Ireland)
Talk: 8:20-8:35 PM
Q/A: 8:35-8:40 PM | | A Meaningful Cure for the Ramifications of Cartesian Substance on Modern Science and Society |
Sriman Krishna Keshava Prabhu
(Philosophy Student at Stockton University, NJ, USA; Serving Assistant, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA)
Talk: 8:40-7:55 PM
Q/A: 8:55-9:00 PM | | The Subjective/Objective Dichotomy and the Evolution of Life and Consciousness | 
Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D.
(Worked as a Senior Researcher at the Department of Environmental Health, University of Washington, Seattle; Served as an expert on chemical carcinogens for the IARC/WHO.)
Talk: 9:00-9:15 PM
Q/A: 9:15-9:20 PM | Education Must Include the Study of Spiritual Self to Uplift the Human Civilization
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Prasanna Kumar Mahapatra, Ph.D.
(Secretary, Teeka Foundation; Lecturer, Education Department, Salipur Autonomous College, Odisha)
Talk: 9:20-9:35 PM
Q/A: 9:35-9:40 PM |
Ranjan K. Panda, Ph.D.
(Professor, Dept. Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India)
| Session Chair |
Concluding Session (9:40-10:00 PM)
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