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POSTPONED: Interconnecting Boundaries: Women, Democracy, and Religion

Join the GTU's Asia Project and Women's Studies in Religion for this student conference on Friday, March 20th from 8:30am - 3:00pm. Breakfast and light lunch will be served. Please RSVP Marinda Chan at asia-project@ses.gtu.edu or Sheryl Johnson at wrs@ses.gtu.edu

Session 1 - Women: Marinda (KengFan) Chan, Hye Hyun Han, Keyona Saquile Lazenby

Session 2 - Democracy: Mariska Lauterboom, Sheryl Johnson, Barbara Anne Kozee, Wan-Ting Tsai

Mid-Autumn Cultural Festival Celebration

Mid-Autumn or the Moon Festival is one of the most celebrated festivals in China, Korea and Vietnam. It takes place on the 15th of the eighth month on the lunar calendar when the moon is the roundest and fullest during the year. It symbolizes a time of reunion of family, thanksgiving for the harvest and the nature. You can also come with your traditional attires from your native lands and share your unique culture! Meet at the outdoor entrance of the LeConte GTU building where we will have some simple food, and will have moon-cake and green tea as desserts.

Asia Project Fall 2018 Student Forum

The Asia Project at the GTU cordially invites the GTU community to its sixth Semi-Annual Student Colloquium on Monday, October 15, 2018 @ 12:30-2:00 pm.

There will be thought-provoking presentations by GTU students Mariska Lauterboom and Hanna Kang, a formal response, and a Q & A session on topics relevant to Asian-Pacific contexts. Lunch (delicious Asian cuisine!) is included.

*Please RSVP to asia-project@ses.gtu.edu by Thursday, October 11.

 

Humility at the Heart of Interreligious Education

November 20, 2017

As I move toward the completion of my doctoral work at the GTU, I am increasingly musing over questions about the nature of education—and particularly the nature of interreligious education. I believe teaching is part of my calling as a theologian, as it is for so many others here at the GTU.

Call for Papers for Asia Project Student Colloquium

September 13, 2017

Asia Project cordially invites GTU doctoral students working on topics or themes relevant to Asian-Pacific contexts to present their projects at the fourth Semi-Annual Student Colloquium on Monday, October 16th, 2017, from 12:30-2:00 pm. 

Mass Meditation: Practices and Discourses in Contemporary Global Buddhisms

The fourth annual graduate student symposium at the Institute of Buddhists Studies examines the popularity of meditation practices in contemporary global Buddhisms. Papers will present a range of scholarship from historical perspectives on the modern origins of a diversity of mindfulness practices; scientific studies of Buddhist practice and globalized Buddhist feedback loops; and comparative studies across traditions, between the secular and the sectarian, and the modern and the traditional.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Erik Braun, University of Virginia, "The Morals of Mindfulness"

Islam in China and Japan

A joint lecture by Dr. Kei Takahashi and UC Berkeley visiting scholar and sociologist, Dr. Yuting Wang from the American University of Sharjah in UAE. Co-sponsored by the Asia Project.

Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Rd., Berkeley

Crossing Realities: Shin Buddhism and Globalization

UPDATE: Please note updated program and time.

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Institute of Buddhist Studies incorporating as a seminary and graduate school, the 2016 Numata Lecture will be held on Friday, August 19, 2016.

This year’s Numata Lecture will be: