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Gender, Sex, and Pollution in Buddhist Discourse
Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Gender presents a conference as part of the Ideology in Japanese Religious Life Project.
Where
Conference Convenor:
Lori Meeks (USC)
Schedule:
February 3, 2012
Location: Intellectual Commons (Room 233), Doheny Memorial Library
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Beata Grant
Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies, Washington University, St. Louis (Ph.D. Stanford); author of Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China (University of Hawai’i, 2008), and (with W.L. Idema) The Red Brush: Women Writers of Imperial China (Asia Center Harvard University, 2004).
February 4, 2012
Location: East Asian Seminar Room (110C), Doheny Memorial Library
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Keller Kimbrough
Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado, Boulder (Ph.D. Yale)
Jessey Choo
Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City (Ph.D. Princeton)
Megan Bryson
Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Ph.D. Stanford)
Amy Langenberg
Instructor of Religious Studies, Auburn University (Ph.D. Columbia)
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