Event



Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions

Feb 24, 2017 at - | Kislak Center, 6F Van Pelt Library

 

Angela Zito (New YorkUniversity), author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18thCentury China; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations afterIndependent Film.

Nirmala S.Salgado (AugustanaCollege), author of Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the FemaleRenunciant.
Lecture Title: "Tradition, Power, and Community Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka."

ArnikaFuhrmannn (CornellUniversity), author of Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism inContemporary Thai Cinema.
Lecture title: "Buddhist Melancholia: Trauma, Agency, andPleasure in a Southeast Asian Transmedia Archive"
 

 

More details to come...


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Contact: 

Hsiao-wen Cheng, EALC, Penn 

hscheng@sas.upenn.edu

 

D6 Speaker
(Several-- See below)