2-Day Workshop: Beyond Modernism: The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia (9am – 5pm, Swift Common 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637)
This workshop seeks to move beyond an East/West axis in exploring the emergence and subsequent development of so-called “modernist” forms of Buddhism. In focusing on the entwinement of movements within Asia itself, the workshop takes inspiration from and aims to address recent concerns in the critical Asian humanities after the “transnational turn.” Central to this wider methodological aim is to reconsider the usefulness of “modernism” as a framework for conceptualizing Asian, and ultimately global, religious identities. As such, the workshop addresses itself not only to scholars of religion but also to those with broader interests in the study of Asian political and cultural histories from a transnational perspective. Register here
Proudly co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Wedemeyer Faculty Fund for Tibetan Studies and History of Religions, the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for East Asian Studies