BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.3580.events_uoft_date.0@www.religion.utoronto.ca CREATED:20241128T162711Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, February 06, 2025 5:00 pm to 7: 00 pm \n Zoom / JHB 614 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St George St reet, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nSpeakers \nMatthew King (University of Calif ornia, Riverside) \n\nDescription: \nYehan Numata Program in Buddhist Stu dies 2024-25With apologies for any inconvenience caused, please note that the time of this lecture has been amended to begin one hour earlier than previously advertised.What are the epistemic and institutional limits of b rainhood as anthropological figure of modernity? When the Tibetan refugee diaspora became a global stage for the Buddhism-science encounter during “ the Decade of the Brain” (1990s), monastic critics working along the epis temic and institutional margins of the early Mind & Life Dialogues (1987-1 995) sought to elaborately refuse “the closure principle” of exclusive mat erialism. Their previously unstudied efforts elaborately extended a four-c entury history of I\ner Asian Buddhist engagements with European-derived n aturalism, and brought new bio-modern objects like “neurons” and “cells” into the disciplinary arenas of classical South and I\ner Asian medicine, tantric physiology, and Mahāyā-na philosophy. I argue that attention to this flush of materialist and moral thinking about the tyranny of the very small (“the microscopic sublime”) lends itself to several experimental pr ojects in the critical Asian humanities: diversifying our sources for a gl obal history of neurocultures, refusing the chronic psychologization of B uddhist Studies, and delinking from the category blindness of religion-sc ience.About the speakerMatthew W. King is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He currently serves as UCR’s Di rector of Asian Studies, Co-Director of the Medical & Health Humanities, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Health Humanities & Disability Just ice Lab. A historian of I\ner Asian Buddhism, Matthew’s published work ha s explored scholastic thought along the Tibet-Mongol interface on such top ics as the 13th-14th century Mongol Empire, philology and tantric self-cu ltivation in the 18th-19th centuries, literati cultures in the Qing Empir e, and biomedical modernity, humanism, and Orientalism amidst socialist state building in the 20th century. His first book, Ocean of Milk, Ocea n of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia Uni versity Press, 2019), won several awards, including the American Academ y of Religion’s 2020 award for Best Book in Textual Study. Other recent bo oks include In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s R ecord of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press, 2022) and, with K henpo Kunga Sherab, The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage (Simon & Sc huster/Wisdom Publications, 2024). For questions and the reading group ma terials, please contact Christoph Emmrich at christoph.emmrich@utoronto.c a.Join on Zoom Passcode: 989442 Associated reading group event, February 7, 'The Contents are the Vessel: Snod Bcud beyond Nature' See 2024-25 SCH EDULE OF EVENTS FOR YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAM IN BUDDHIST STUDIES \n\nSponsors \nUniversity of Toronto,McMaster University \n170 St George Street, Toro nto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nCategories \n LectureYehan Numata Program \n\nAudiences \n U of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250206T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250206T190000 LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T165234Z LOCATION:170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 SUMMARY:Yehan Numata Program Lecture: 'Where is the Mind in the Atom? Mater ializing the Moral Imagination in the Shadow of the Mind and Life Dialogue s' URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/numata-lec-20250206 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR