Calendar of Events

Results For 2013

Lecture: Professor Akira Nishimura, Kagoshima University- Pacification of the Dead Spirits, Inspiration for the Living: The Relation of the Violent Structure of Japanese Society to the Commemoration for the War Dead

In Japan, two kinds of the dead have been discussed separately in the past research trends on the commemoration for war dead: the fallen soldiers and the civilian casualties like the atomic bomb dead. In this talk, Professor Akira Nishimura will try to recapitulate such genealogies of the commemorations based on the violent structure of Japanese society and abstract two types of vectors as “pacification and inspiration” which represent the relation of the living and the dead.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Politics of Humor: A Historical Perspective of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand

Colloquium with Katherine Bowie, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

"Rediscovering Chinese Scholastic Chan in Edo Japan," talk by George Keyworth

A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

"The Turbulent Life of the Platform Sutra" talk by Prof. Morten Schlutter

A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Friday, March 01, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Buddhas of Mes Aynak

Documentary film screening with director Brent Huffman, Northwestern University
Friday, March 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM