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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, October 31, 2025 4:00 pm to 6:00 
 pm \n Zoom / 3001 \n L.R. WIlson Hall \n McMaster University, Hamilton ON
  \n\nSpeakers \nAdeana McNicholl (Vanderbilt University) \n\nDescription: 
 \nThis talk examines stories in which semi-divine pretas engage in sexual 
 relationships with human partners in order to consider the limits and poss
 ibilities generated from examining gender and sexuality from the perspecti
 ve of the non-human abject Other. As a normative genre, preta literature\
 , like other literature about monsters, demons, or non-human Others, he
 lps construct norms of gender and sexuality in relation to culturally dete
 rmined unacceptable forms of gendered behaviour. In portraying men and wom
 en who fail to fulfill their ritual and social responsibilities and, in a
  subsequent lifetime, become stripped of the gendered marks of beauty and
  civility, these stories attempt to relegate gender and sexual transgress
 ion to the preta realm. At the same time, men and women continue to trans
 gress norms following their rebirth as a preta. I propose although these n
 arratives attempt to regulate women’s sexual capacity, the preta world it
 self, as a realm of distinctly unregulated female sexuality, operates in
  tension with the text’s own normative frameworks.ADEANA MCNICHOLL is Assi
 stant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is a sc
 holar of Buddhism in premodern South Asia and in the United States. Her fi
 rst book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024), examines the historical de
 velopment of the Buddhist preta through narrative literature. Her second b
 ook project, tentatively titled Black Buddhism: A Religious History of Af
 ro-Asian Solidarity, traces the history of African American engagements w
 ith Buddhism up to the Cold War period. The book shows how Black thinkers 
 constructed an alternate modernity that, while intersecting with other fo
 rms of Buddhist modernism, offered a politically distinct discourse that 
 cannot be articulated separately from American racial politics.Zoom Passco
 de 989442 Associated reading group, October 30, ''Our Black and Curly-Ha
 ired Buddha’: Buddhism at the Intersection of Race and Caste” Full 2025-26
  SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR YEHAN NUMATA PROGRAM IN BUDDHIST STUDIES \n\nSpons
 ors \nUniversity of Toronto,McMaster University \nMcMaster University, H
 amilton ON \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n U of T CommunityGrad
 uate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:McMaster University, Hamilton ON
SUMMARY:Lecture: 'Gender and Sexuality Between This World and the Next: Hum
 an/Non-Human Relationships in Preta Narrative'
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/numata-lec-20251031
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