Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond, 2024-25

This new lecture series, launching in Michaelmas Term 2023, features talks on writing and publishing in the Buddhist tradition and in related religious and cultural spheres. Lectures in this series offer insights into the various ways in which writing and printing has been shaping Buddhism, as well as the multifaceted impact of Buddhism on book culture in East Asia, past, present, and future.
 

All lectures (with the exception of the first one) take place on Thursday at 14:00 in room 8/9 at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Registration is not required. The lectures are free and open to scholars, students, and the public.

Please note: all events take place in person.

This lecture series is organised by Dr Noga Ganany with the generous support of the Glorisun Global Network.

Michaelmas Term, 2024

• 10 am on Tuesday 10th September 2024
   The Library of a Buddhist Priest from Rural South China
   Meir Shahar (Tel Aviv University)

• 2pm on Thursday 10th October 2024
  Mapping the Society of the Chinese Gods. Social network analysis and divine assemblages in early modern China
  Vincent Goossaert (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
   
• 2pm on Thursday 5th December 2024
  Details TBA
  Isabelle Ang (College de France)

Lent Term, 2025

• 2pm on Thursday 23rd January 2025
  Details TBA
  Bernard Faure (Columbia University)
• 2pm on Thursday 27th February 2025
  Details TBA
  Mick Hunter (Yale University)
• 2pm on Thursday 6th March 2025
  Wish-vow Templates and the Modeling and Worlding of Chinese Buddhist Worlds
  Yang Shen (Zhejiang University)
• 2pm on Thursday 20th March 2025
  Details TBA
  Max Deeg (Cardiff University)

Easter Term, 2025

• 2pm Thursday 8th May 2025
  Details TBA
  Lucille Chia (University of California, Riverside)
   
• 2pm Thursday 22nd May 2025
  Details TBA
  Nataly Shahaf (Princeton University)

For further information contact:

Dr Noga Ganany
University Assistant Professor in the Study of Late Imperial China
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

E-mail: ng462@cam.ac.uk