News and Events
Lectures Sponsored and
Co-sponsored by the Religion Department 2002-2003
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A symposium
at Smith College
April 11 & April 12, 2003
who
is buddha?
Understanding Buddhahood Past and Present |
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH
Practice and
Doctrine in the Changing Notion of Buddhahood
Lecture by John Makransky,
Boston College
4:30p.m., Seelye Hall, Room 106
SATURDAY, APRIL 12TH
Panel Presentations
Moderator: Jamie Hubbard, Smith College
The Concept of the Buddha in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition
Bhikkhu Bodhi, Bodhi Monastery
Rethinking Nagarjuna
Richard
P. Hayes, McGill University
Realizing Buddha’s body, speech and mind as one’s own
John Makransky, Boston College
Am I Being a Buddha or Becoming a Buddha?
Jan Chozen Bays, Great Vow Zen
Monastery
Who is Buddha for the foolish and ignorant? Buddhahood in Shin
Buddhism
Taitetsu Unno, Smith College
2:00p.m., Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center--Reception
Follows
Sponsored by
Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute &
Ada Howe Kent Program in World Religions |
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From Monticello to Mulan:
Communicating Values Through Culture
Dr. Cynthia Schneider
Georgetown
University& Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands
Monday April 7 4:30 pm
Seelye Hall
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& BLEEDING EARTH
Barry Moser
It is a great irony
that violence plays such a potent role in the birth of both Judaism
and Christianity, religions that unequivocally espouse peace and
love as the fundamental tenets of the faith. Judaism was born out of
the violence that is slavery, and subsequently out of the violent
deaths of thousands of helpless, order-following foot soldiers in
Pharaoh’s army, trapped when Yahweh brought the walls of thesea down
upon them, drowning as Moses and those of his people who made
it that far flee unharmed into the promised land. Likewise
Christianity was born out of the violence that is the crucifixion,
bought and paid for by the tortured body and the disembogued blood
of Christ—flesh and blood that will constitute sacramental
sustenance for generations of believers to come. In this talk Moser
takes to task the many limners (as well as readers and exegetes) of
Holy Writ who have shied away from the violence and difficulties of
the real text and, who—instead of wrestling with the terrible and
eternal verities that are within its pages—have fed us “Bible Lite,”
a marrowless version sanitized of pointed meaning and significance
that is fit only for pallid minds, a watery substitute for the real
thing.
Thursday March 27th 7:30 p.m. Neilson
Browsing Room |
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Tanakh and Testament:
A
Reprobate Tinkers with Holy Writ
Barry
Moser
Artist; designer; author; printer;
painter; printmaker and illustrator. He is the first artist since
1865 to illustrate the full Bible in English. More
Info
Illustration taken
from The Holy Bible, containing all the books of theold and
new testaments, king James version, designed & illustrated by
Barry Moser, Pennroyal Caxton press, 1999. Reproduced by
permission.
February 20, 2003
5:00 p.m. Seelye Hall 106
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Religion and the Empty Sign:
Reflections on Buddhist
‘Skillful Means’
Buddha Sets the Wheel of Dharma in
Motion
Luis O. Gomez
Charles O. Hucker Professor of Buddhist
Studies
University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thursday,
February 13, 2003, 4:30 p.m.
Seelye
Hall - Room 201
Sponsored by the Ada Howe Kent Fund, Department of
Religion and Biblical Literature, East Asian Studies Program,
Department of Philosophy, and the Smith College Lecture
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Mimetic Space and Motion
in Medieval Art
by
Adam Cohen
February 4th at 8
pm
A lecture dealing with
the intersection of medieval art and devotional practice. Prof.
Cohen is a medieval art historian who has worked extesnsively on
monastic manuscript production, particularly within the
context of monastic reform in tenth- and eleventh-century Germany.
Sponsored by the History Department and co-sponsored by
Religion. |
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Countercurrents of
Influence: Korea's Impact on the Buddhist Traditions of East
Asia
Robert
Buswell
Director, Center for Buddhist Studies, UCLA
Neilson Library
Browsing Room
December 9, 4:30 |
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Biblical Vilence,
Biblical Humanity:
Can we appreciate the Bible Today?
Gabriel Danzig, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Wednesday, December 4 4:30
Seelye Hall 201
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Reverend Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Jesuit Priest and
Poet
The Discipline of the Mountain:
Dante's Purgatorio
December 4, 2:40 pm Neilson Browsing Room
Poetry
Reading
December 3, 4:00 pm, Helen Hills
Chapel
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“Judaism,
Christianity, and the Dead Sea Scrolls:
Light from Ancient Texts
at the Crossroads of Western Civilizations”
Lawrence H.
Shiffman
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
New York University
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The Shift in Political
Anxieties in the West: From the 'Russians are Coming' to the Coming
Anarchy
by
William F.
May,
Cary M. Maguire
University Professor of Ethics, Emeritus, Southern Methodist
University
This lecture is given in
honor of Thomas S. Derr on the occasion of his retirement at the end
of the 2002-03 academic year. |
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The Archaeology of
Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Professor Jodi Magness, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
5 p.m. on Thursday, October 17, 2002,
in Seelye Hall 106
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Islam Beyond The
"Clash of Civilications"
by
Michael
Sells
Thursday, October
3 |
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