The Brown Bag Colloquia (BBC) is a one hour formal presentation given by one of the core faculty members of the department or a visiting scholar about his or her current research. It is held around lunch time in the department library, and attendees are encouraged to bring a lunch with them. These events are great opportunities for both graduate students and undergraduate majors to get to know other faculty members, and for faculty members to learn about and discuss each others’ research. These presentations are given in the library of the department (Sakamaki A302).
Fall 2009
• 09/24/2009 (Friday) at 2 p.m
Dr. Michel Mohr: "Can Zen Studies Break away from Parochialism?"
Spring 2009
Date
Presenting
Topic
• 10/17/2008 (Friday) at 1 p.m. Dr. Helen Baroni:
"Love, Roshi: Correspondence between Robert Baker Aitken and his 'Distant Correspondents' "
• 10/24/2008 (Friday) at 1 p.m. Dr. Michel Mohr:
"Shaku Sōen and the Challenge of the Modern"
10/28/2008 (Tuesday) at noon. Dr. Kristin Bloomer:
"O Mother: Problems of Marian Identity and Spirit Possession in Tamil Nadu, South India"
02/06/2009 (Friday) at 12:30. Justin Stein (Graduate Student, Religion):
"Legitimizing Reiki with Stories of the Founder: The Many Lives of Usui Mikao"
02/12/2009 (Thursday) at 3:00. Cary Hitchcock (Graduate Student, Religion):
"Enacting significance through social drama and royal procession: Describing the Rath Yatra for Jagannath"
• 03/13/2009 (Friday) at noon. Rev. Jian Dan (Guest Presenter from Taiwan):
"Meditation on Encounter Dialogues: At the Core of the Chan Tradition"
• 03/19/2009 (Thursday) at noon. Prof. Taishin Kawasoe (Guest Presenter from Ryukoku University):
"Pure Land Buddhism"
• 04/09/2009 (Thursday) at 3:00. Dr. Michel Mohr:
"Spiritual Energy in Action: The Dynamics of Training According to Tōrei"
• 04/17/2009 (Friday) at noon. Dr. Kalpana Ram:
"Colloquium: Using a Phenomenology of the Body as Method in the Study of Art and Politics, India"
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