February 24, 2017 (Friday) at the
University of Pennsylvania
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM, Van Pelt Library 241*
Event Schedule
Opening Remarks 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Session 1 9:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Angela Zito (New York University)
“The Filial, the Familial, the Gendered, and the Cultivated in China”
Session 2 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Nirmala S. Salgado (Augustana College)
“Tradition, Power, and Community Among Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka”
Session 3 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Arnika Fuhrmann (Cornell University)
“Buddhist Melancholia: Trauma, Agency, and Pleasure in a Southeast Asian Transmedia Archive”
Roundtable 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Event Organizers
Hsiao-wen Cheng (University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Jolyon Thomas (University of Pennsylvania, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania, Religious Studies)
Sponsors
Penn School of Arts and Sciences
The Alice Paul Center of Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women
Center for East Asian Studies
Carpenter Fund for Graduate Training in Religious Studies
Contact Us
Hsiao-wen Cheng
Assistant Professor
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
*All are welcome. Non-Penn attendants please contact Mark Bookman at bookman@upenn.edu for Van Pelt Library access.