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Colloquium/Speakers for 2011/2012
NOTE: Details of the events listed are subject to change, so please check this schedule for updates. Want to receive email notices about upcoming events? Click here to send us your email address.
Location is University Hall 122 unless otherwise indicated.
NOTE: Details of the events listed are subject to change, so please check this schedule for updates. Want to receive email notices about upcoming events? Click here to send us your email address.
Location is University Hall 122 unless otherwise indicated.
September 2011
September 26 and 27, 2011
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor
Dr. John Barclay (University of Durham)
Public Lecture: Paul and the Subversive Power of the Incongruous Gift
Tuesday September 27th, 7:30 pm
MUMC 1A6
Departmental Seminar: The Christ-Gift, Israel and Time: From Galatians to Romans
Wednesday September 28th, 1:30 pm
University Hall 122
October 2011
October 6, 2011 10:30-12:00 UH B115
(McMaster Ancient Judaism and Christianity Seminar)
October 19 and 20, 2011
Dr. Karin Zetterholm and Dr. Magnus Zetterholm (Lund University)
"Paul, the Torah, and the Moral Impurity of Non-Jews—A Tentative Suggestion ”
October 19, 2011 1:30 p.m UH 122
"Rabbinic Responses to Early Christian Claims to Interpretive Authority”
October 20, 2011 10:00 a.m. UH 122
November 2011
November 10, 2011 4:00-6:00 p.m.Dr. Michelle Wang (Georgetown University)
“Reflections of the Garbhadhātu Maṇḍala at Dunhuang”
November 14, 2011 3:30-5:30 p.m. Great Hall, University Club
Dr. David Adams Richards: Reading, Discussion, Reception
(Co-sponsors English/Cultural Studies and Arts and Science)
For more information on his visit, please click here.
November 23, 2011 1:30 p.m.
Dr. Lawrence Taylor (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
"Death in the Desert: Symbolic Politics and Moral Geographies at the Edge of the United States"
December 2011
December 1, 2011 7:00 p.m. CIBC HallGoldblatt Lecture--CANCELLED
Dr. Norma Joseph (Concordia University)
"Orthodoxy's Many Faces: Shifts on the Right and on the Left"
**This year's lecture has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.**
December 2, 2011 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Dr. Toru Funayama (Kyoto University)
"Mahāyāna Vinaya? Aspirations for the Composition of a Vinaya for bodhisattvas in India and China"
January 2012
January 26, 2012 4:00-6:00 pm UH 122
Numata Speaker Series
Dr. Lara Braitstein (McGill University)
“Conventional Truth and Symbolic Terms in Saraha’s Adamantine Songs”
February 2012
March 2012
March 1, 2012
Numata Reading Group
Dr. Pierce Salguero (Pennsylvania State University, Abingdon College)
“Narrating Buddhist Healing: Representations of Buddhist Medicine in Medieval Chinese Hagiographies”
March 14, 2012 1:30 p.m. UH 122
Dr. George Keyworth (University of Saskatchewan)
"Zen and the Spell of the White Canopy of the Buddha's Sinciput"
March 21, 2012 1:30 p.m. UH 122
Dr. Dewei Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University)
"Circulating the Chinese Buddhist Canon: Some Important Aspects"
March 22, 2012 4:00-6:00 p.m. UH 122
Numata Reading Group
Dr. Collett Cox (University of Washington)
“Yogācāra Prehistory: The Interpretation of Bhāva, Svabhāva, Abhiniṣpanna, and Pariniṣpanna in a Gāndhārī Scholastic Text”
March 28, 2012 UH 122 4:00-6:00pm
Numata Lecture Series
Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne)
“Rethinking India's Past”
April 2012
April 18, 2012 UH 122 1:30
Dr. Patrik Fridlund (Lund University)
“Religious Diversity: Dialogue and Conversion—Partners in Opposition?”
