Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions

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Location: Van Pelt Library, 241

Speakers:

Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text/Performance in 18th Century China; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film.

Title: The Filial, the Familial, the Gendered and the Cultivated in China

Nirmala S. Salgado (Augustana College), author of Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant.

Title: “Tradition, Power, and Community Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka”

Arnika Fuhrmannn (Cornell University), author of Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema.

Title: "Buddhist Melancholia: Trauma, Agency, and Pleasure in a Southeast Asian Transmedia Archive"

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