GENDER, SEX, AND POLLUTION IN BUDDHIST DISCOURSE
CJRC Gender and Ideology in Japanese Religious Life Project
FRIDAY
3 FEBRUARY
Time: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Location: Intellectual Commons (Room 233), Doheny Memorial Library
FRIDAY
3 FEBRUARY
Time: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Location: Intellectual Commons (Room 233), Doheny Memorial Library
Keynote Lecture
"Blood Ponds and Lotus Pools: Woman Huang in Chinese Popular
Performance Literature"
by Beata Grant
Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies, Washington University, St. Louis (Ph.D. Stanford)
SATURDAY
4 FEBRUARY
Time: 10:00 AM-5:30 PM
Location: Intellectual Commons (Room 233), Doheny Memorial Library
Morning Workshop
"Sorrowful Coverings of Tainted Karma: Towards a History of Female Impurity in Early and Middle Period Indian Buddhism"
By Amy Langenberg (Religious Studies, Auburn University)
"The Debtors' Prison - The Daoist Construction of the Blood Lake Hell for Women"
By Jessey Choo (History, University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Response by Charlotte Furth (Professor Emerita, USC)
Afternoon Workshop
"Women's Buddhist Practices and Ethnic Representation in Dali, Yunnan: The Tale of Woman Huang as Bai Folk Culture"
By Megan Bryson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
"Dead Women in Medieval Japan: Painting Buddhist Truth in The Tale of the Demon Shuten Douji"
By Keller Kimbrough (Asian Languages and Civilizations, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
"Situating the Cult of the Blood Bowl Sutra in the Gender Discourses of Early Modern Japan: A View from the Commentarial Tradition"
By Lori Meeks (Religion, USC)
Response by Janet Hoskins (Anthropology, USC)
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
If you would like to receive a copy of the papers in advance of the workshop, RSVP to Kana Yoshida at kanay@dornsife.usc.edu
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