Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center, Department of South Asian Studies, and Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Apr 18, 2025 - Apr 19, 2025
(All Day)
This two-day workshop explores the modern textual, visual, material, and somatic traditions of Muslim communities in the Tamil world, a linguistic sphere of shared social, cultural, and intellectual practices…
Spirited knowing holds a curious place in liberalist and secular epistemological regimes. Situated at their limits in several senses—as externality and as the potentially revealing…
This event provides a schematic introduction to the thought of Sylvia Wynter, a Jamaican theorist whose work has become enormously influential in contemporary theories of race,…
Most scholars for the past century have assessed the state of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley as “decadent,” “corrupted by Hinduism,” and predicted its withering away, most…
This talk examines the celebration of Purim in early modern Italy and the emergence of local Purims, unique commemorations established by Jewish communities to mark moments of deliverance from persecution and…
For much of the early 2000s, seduction forum users struggled with magic. They had gathered online to perfect methods for persuading women to have sex with them. Having perfected…
In conjunction with the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Forum on Keywords, this symposium engages mobile concepts and their genealogies, histories, structures of meaning, translations, and adaptations across time…
Jonathan Feuer, Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale University
Feb 20, 2025
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Buddhism is often presumed to be a strictly pacifist religion, thus a Buddhist military chaplaincy would be an oxymoron. Currently, 128 chaplains in the South Korean military, however, see no apparent contradiction…
