Event
Visit the conference website at http://web.sas.upenn.edu/gear/
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.
Lecture title: The Filial, the Familial, the Gendered and the Cultivated
Location: 241 Van Pelt Library (Class of 1955 Conference Room)
Nirmala S. Salgado (Augustana College), author of Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant.
Lecture 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.
Lecture title: "Buddhist Melancholia: Trauma, Agency, and Pleasure in a Southeast Asian Transmedia Archive"
More details to come.
Contact:
Hsiao-wen Cheng
Assistant Professor
East Asian Languages and Civilizations