UT: Nov 4: Lecture on “Buddhism Under Pol Pot”

In case you are interested:

Date: Friday, November 4, 2011

Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm

Location: Arts & Administration Building, Room AA 112 (map)

University of Toronto Scarborough

1265 Military Trail

Scarborough, ON M1C 1A4

The Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough, in partnership with Tung Lin Kok Yuen will host a free public lecture by Dr. Ian Harris entitled “Buddhism Under Pol Pot” as part of the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Perspectives on Buddhist Thought and Culture series.

The public lecture given by Dr. Harris will examine a modern experience of Buddhism encountering political conflict. Dr. Harris will look at the struggles of Buddhist monks in the face of a violent and repressive regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. He will consider the regional variations in the Khmer Rouge’s treatment of religion, the number of monks that perished, monastic survivors, the re-establishment of Cambodian Buddhism, and the development of Cambodia’s violent communist movement after the fall of Pol Pot.

Dr. Ian Harris is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cumbria. His current research interests focus on the modern and contemporary history of Cambodia, Buddhism and politics in Southeast Asia, Buddhist environmentalism, and landscape aesthetics. Dr. Harris has held previous visiting professor positions at the University of Oxford, the University of British Columbia, the National University of Singapore, and the Documentary Center of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. His most recent books are Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice and Buddhism Under Pol Pot.

Admission to the lecture is FREE. To reserve your spot, please contact Arts & Events Programming at aep-rsvp@utsc.utoronto.caor at 416 208 4769. Please note that for those travelling from downtown Toronto, a free shuttle bus will depart from Hart House Circle at 5:30pm and will return once the lecture is over at 9:00pm. To RSVP for the bus, please email aep-rsvp@utsc.utoronto.ca.

For more information on Arts & Events Programming, including a calendar with our upcoming events, please visit our website.

Thank you for taking the time to read this email.

Cheers!

The AEP Team

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2011-12 Numata Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

In case you are interested:

FALL 2011

MICHELLE WANG (Georgetown University)

LECTURE: “Reflections of the Garbhadhātu Maṇḍala at Dunhuang”

Thursday, November 10, 4-6 pm, McMaster, University Hall 122

READING GROUP: “Changing Conceptions of ‘Maṇḍala’ in Tang China: Ritual, Image-Making, and the Limits of Visual Representation"

Friday, November 11, 3-5 pm, U of T, East Asian Studies Department, Robarts Library

TORU FUNAYAMA (Kyoto University)

READING GROUP: “Kamalaśīla's View on Yogic Perception and the Bodhisattva Path”

Thursday, December 1, 3-5 pm, U of T, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 317

LECTURE:
"Mahāyāna Vinaya? Aspirations for the Composition of a Vinaya for bodhisattvas in India and China"

Friday, December 2, 4-6, McMaster, University Hall 122

UPCOMING IN WINTER/SPRING 2012

LARA BRAITSTEIN (McGill University)

LECTURE: Thursday, January 26, 4-6, McMaster, University Hall 122

READING GROUP: Friday, January 27, 3-5, U of T, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318

PIERCE SALGUERO (Penn State University, Abington College)

READING GROUP: Thursday, March 1, McMaster, University Hall 122

LECTURE: Friday, March 2, U of T, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318

COLLETT COX (University of Washington)

LECTURE: Thursday, March 22, McMaster, University Hall 122

READING GROUP: Friday, March 23, U of T, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318

JOHANNES BRONKHORST (University of Lausanne)

READING GROUP (Co-hosted by the Hindu Studies Colloquium): Greater Magadha and Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism

Tuesday, March 27, U of T

CHRISTINA SCHERRER-SCHAUB (University of Lausanne)

READING GROUP: Thursday, April 5, 4-6, McMaster, University Hall 122

LECTURE: Friday, April 6, 3-5, U of T

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From U of T: call for proposals for RPS Graduate Fellows Workshop

Sharing the following information with you:

We are pleased to announce this call for proposals for RPS Graduate Fellows Workshop. Please note the call for proposals has been updates as of October 25th.

Graduate Fellows Workshop - Religion and Human Security

March 2011

Call for Proposals – Updated October 25th Deadline: December 17, 2010

The University of Toronto Religion in the Public Sphere Initiative, housed at the Centre for the Study of Religion, invites proposals for the 2011 University of Toronto Graduate Fellows Workshop on the theme of Religion and Human Security.

Current debates on religion's role in the public sphere have framed religion’s relationship to human security as confrontational. This Fellows Workshop, in response, seeks to encourage critical reflection on the themes of religion and human security in a post-9/11 world by examining the contention that religion is not simply a threat to which security forces, government policies and public debate should react or respond. Rather, religion is deeply bound to the practice and construction of security, to the very idea of what it means to be secure, immune from threat, sound, holy or saved. The Workshop seeks contributions from across the social science and humanities disciplines which might problematize in a new way the intersection of religion and security thus broadly understood.

Applications are welcome from advanced graduate students from all faculties, centres, and institutes within the University of Toronto. Students should be working on dissertation research related to religion and security, very broadly conceived, and have a minimum of one chapter completed.

Fellows will meet twice in the winter term of 2011: once in a preparatory workshop, and once at a one-day workshop in March, 2011, where each Fellow will present a research paper and have the chance to invite a scholar to respond to his or her work. The Graduate Fellows will also attend the Religion in the Public Sphere Public Forum on the topic of Food and Religion.

For more information about RPS see www.rps.chass.utoronto.ca, or contact Prof. Frances Garrett at religion.publicsphere@utoronto.ca.

Religion in the Public Sphere:
More Details: www.rps.chass.utoronto.ca

From U of T: call for proposals for RPS Graduate Fellows Workshop

We are pleased to announce this call for proposals for RPS Graduate Fellows Workshop

Eligibility: Applications are welcome from advanced graduate students from all facilities, centres, and institutes within the University of Toronto. Students should be working on dissertation research related to the role of religion in public life, broadly conceived, and have a minimum of one chapter completed.

Submissions: Due by December 17, 2010

About: Fellows will meet twice in the winter term of 2011: once in a preparatory workshop, and once at a one-day workshop in March, 2011, where each Fellow will present a research paper and have the chance to invite a scholar to respond to his or her work. The Graduate Fellows will also attend the Religion in the Public Sphere Public Forum on the topic of Food and Religion, featuring Parama Roy Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Davis, Nigel Savage, founder of Hazon, and Yasir Syeed, co-founder of Green Zabiya.

More Details: www.rps.chass.utoronto.ca

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