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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, February 28, 2025 2:00 pm to 4:00
  pm \n Room 288 \n North House \n 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON M5S 3K7 
 \n\nSpeakers \nGeethika Dharmasinghe \n\nDescription: \nIn the years prece
 ding the recent violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka, militant Sinhala B
 uddhist groups advocated for urgent improvements to the country’s deterior
 ating political-economic conditions, asserting that such improvements mus
 t be grounded in Buddhist values. Central to their framing of this deterio
 ration has been the portrayal of Muslims—their businesses, population gro
 wth, and perceived economic dominance—as primary contributors to the disc
 ontent, a phenomenon they termed “Muslim encroachment.” In response, the
 se groups proposed an economic agenda centered on an ideal society, ancho
 red in what they called a “Buddhist Brotherhood,” as a solution to their 
 grievances. In this talk, Dharmasinghe argues that this proposal is model
 led on an imaginary conception of ‘brotherhood’ among Muslims. On the cont
 rary to envisioning business success solely through Buddhist ethics, howe
 ver, the proponents of the proposal rearticulated their economic and nati
 onal concerns emulating Muslim business practices that are imagined as con
 ducive to business success and personal growth in the interest of creating
  a more disciplined, less corrupt employer and employee—a process she cal
 ls ‘pecuniary emulation cannon’ of militant Buddhist tradition.About the s
 peakerGeethika Dharmasinghe is a postdoctoral Fellow in the Department for
  the Study of Religion and the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for
  Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2022, Geethika Dharmas
 inghe earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University in Asian Literature, Relig
 ion and Culture with specializations in the relationship of Buddhists to v
 iolence in contemporary times. Her dissertation research, Terror-Making i
 n Buddhist World was funded by the Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork gran
 t. From Fall 2022 to Fall 2023, she held the post of Visiting Assistant P
 rofessor at Colgate University. An anthropologist of religion, her teachi
 ng and research converge around literatures on New Social Movements, Budd
 hist modernity, nationalism and the political economy of South and Southe
 ast Asia.Register \n\nSponsors \nCentre for South Asian Studies at the Asi
 an Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy \n1 Devonshir
 e Place, Toronto ON M5S 3K7 \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U 
 of T CommunityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON M5S 3K7
SUMMARY:Buddhist Brotherhood: The Sinhala Ethic and the Development of Anti
 -Muslim Capitalism
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 inhala-ethic-and-development-anti-muslim-capitalism
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