Presented by University of Toronto/McMaster University
SCHEDULE
VICTORIA MONTROSE (Furman University)
LECTURE: From Disciples to Dissidents: Understanding Student Protests and Reform Movements in Meiji-era Buddhist Universities
THURSDAY, September 4, 2025, 2-4pm, UofT, JHB 317 (HYBRID)
READING GROUP: “Daughters Lead the Way: Women Successors in Japanese New Buddhist Movements”
FRIDAY, September 5, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, L.R. Wilson Hall 3001
ANNIE HECKMAN (84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha; Washington and Lee University)
LECTURE in collaboration with the Department for the Study of Religion Lecture Series: Nuns, Monks, Soldiers, and Kings: Buddhist Monastics and the Rule of Law in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya
THURSDAY, October 23, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 100 (HYBRID)
READING GROUP: “Notes on The Inquiry by Upāli: Comparing the Upāliparipṛcchās from the Two Versions of the Uttaragrantha Preserved in the Kangyur”
FRIDAY, October 24, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, L.R. Wilson Hall 5001
ADEANA McNICHOLL (Vanderbilt University)
READING GROUP: “‘Our Black and Curly-Haired Buddha’: Buddhism at the Intersection of Race and Caste”
THURSDAY, October 30, 2025, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614
LECTURE: Gender and Sexuality Between This World and the Next: Human/Non-Human Relationships in Preta Narrative
FRIDAY, October 31, 2025, 4-6pm, McMaster, L.R. Wilson Hall 3001 (HYBRID)
RIMA VESELY-FLAD (Union Theological Seminary, NYC)
LECTURE: Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition
THURSDAY, January 8, 2026, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 614 (HYBRID)
READING GROUP: “Turning Towards Internal Suffering: Dharma for the Practice of Spiritual and Psychological Liberation”
FRIDAY, January 9, 2026, 4-6pm, McMaster, L.R. Wilson Hall 3001
TRENT WALKER (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
READING GROUP: “Unpacking the Glossary: How Selection Defined Buddhist Scholasticism in Early Modern Southeast Asia”
THURSDAY, April 9, 2026, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 213
LECTURE: Southeast Asia’s Bitextual Age: Erudition and Invention in Buddhist Translation, 1500–1700
FRIDAY, April 10, 2026, 4-6pm, McMaster, L.R. Wilson Hall 3001 HYBRID
PETRA KIEFFER-PÜLZ (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz)
READING GROUP: “Ñeyyadhamma’s Formal Letter to the Non-Confusionists in Sri Lanka (1860)”
THURSDAY, April 16, 2026, 4-6pm, UofT, JHB 213
LECTURE: The Balapiṭiya Dispute in 19th-century-Sri Lanka
FRIDAY, April 17, 2026, 4-6pm, McMaster, L.R. Wilson Hall 3001 (HYBRID)