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SUMMARY:Ways To Be and Not to Be: Reading LaoZhuangZi PhiloPoetically
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Ways To Be and Not to Be: Reading LaoZhuangZi PhiloPoetically \nDate/Time:April 18\, 2023\, 12:00 – 13:30 pm (HK time)Language: English\nVenue: May Hall 201 AND via ZOOM (Registration is required.)\nRegistration Link: http://bit.ly/KyooTalk\n\nABSTRACTReady? Set\, here we go again.  \n“Pathways” (Dao道) in classical Daoist discourses\, not really “ready-made\,” tend to make themselves anew quite readily\, all the way through; “way-making (dao) that can be put into words\,” “eloquently couched” as such (信言不美 美言不信Daodejing 道德經CH 8)\, “is not really way-making” (道可道非常道)\, says the old sage (老子)\, who also says that “those who know will not say it\, and those who say would not know it” (知者不言 言者不知). What is he saying? Dao is effable and ineffable. So what? What are we supposed to do?\nToday\, which GPS will take us to this Daoist “door of all wonders” (衆妙)? What kind of thresholding\, not just gatekeeping\, would be possible? Taking the auto-poetic generativity of such good old Daoist paradoxes and ironies as a philosophically renewable energy\, this seminar\, the first in the series\, on the Daoist PhiloPoetics of transitive ambiguation introduces ways to reboot Laozi (老子) and Zhuangzi (庄子) translingually\, focusing on their metamorphic—metaphorical and metaphysical—avant-gardism\, their waiting (weiding未定 Zhuangzi 04) game.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERKyoo Lee aka Q is a philosopher\, writer\, art critic and a Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the City University of New York\, who works widely in the interwoven fields of the Arts and Humanities. The author of Reading Descartes Otherwise (FUP) and a forthcoming book on visual philopoetics (MIT Press)\, she is a recipient of faculty fellowships from Cambridge University\, KIAS and the Mellon Foundation among others\, and her genre-bending writings that explore co-generative links between critical theory and creative prose have appeared in Flash Art\, Jacket 2\, Randian\, The White Review\, etc.\, as well as numerous academic venues. Actively engaged in various editorial (currently\, philoSOPHIA\, SUNY Press)\, curatorial and public intellectual projects\, recently she served as the editor for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022\, a judge for the Poetry Translation Prizes at the Poetry Translation Center (London) and PEN America (NYC)\, and the faculty leader for the Mellon Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center\, “mp3: merging poetry\, philosophy\, performativity.”\nORGANIZERASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, HKU\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/ways-to-be-and-not-to-be-reading-laozhuangzi-philopoetically/
LOCATION:May Hall 201 AND via Zoom (Registration is required.)
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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SUMMARY:Buddhism in Russia: Introspection of Spirituality and New Modalities
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Buddhism in Russia: Introspection of Spirituality and New Modalities \nDate/Time:April 18\, 2023\, 7:00 – 9:00 pm (HK time)Language: English\nVenue: G/F Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, HKU & via ZOOM (Registration is required.)\nRegistration Link: http://bit.ly/RussianBuddhism\n\nABSTRACTBuddhism is regarded as a traditional faith in Russia and is part of the national spiritual tradition. Buddhism is a traditional religion for three regions of Russia: Buryatia\, Tuva and Kalmykia. In the 17th century\, Vajrayāna (Lamaism) Buddhism was brought to Russia by the cattle-breeding Buryats and Kalmyks who had come from Dzungaria (China) to the lower Volga. In 1741\, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna recognized Lamaism in Buryatia and arranged for the formation of Buddhist monasteries. This date is considered the date of official recognition of Buddhism in Russia. \nDuring the Soviet period\, the Buddhist clergy suffered from persecution and many lamas lost their land rights. Schools and monasteries were shut down\, temples were robbed\, and their material possessions were confiscated and put in museums.\nAt the same time\, Russian intellectuals used Buddhism as a way to express their discontent with the social system and as a way to escape the harshness of reality. Unofficial Buddhist communities began to develop in the USSR and then Russia. Nowadays\, Buddhism is present in Russia in a variety of ways: as an organized institution\, unifying the traditional Vajrayāna communities; non-institutional Buddhism in the form of small groups of Mahayana and Theravada; lay Buddhism in the form of a philosophical and everyday cultural tradition. In recent years\, the government has been offering substantial backing to Buddhist clerics in their educational pursuits.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERAlexey MASLOV is a professor and the Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Moscow State University\, as well as the President of the Foundation for promoting Buddhist Education and Research. He is a renowned scholar in Asian and Chinese studies in Russia\, a governmental expert in East Asian relations\, a visiting professor of several European and Chinese Universities\, and he has published more than 20 books\, including translations of Buddhist scriptures.\nORGANIZERS•ASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, under the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G)\n•HKU Centre of Buddhist Studies\n \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/buddhism-in-russia-introspection-of-spirituality-and-new-modalities/
LOCATION:G/F Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, HKU & Via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230426T193000
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SUMMARY:Time and the River: Temporal and Material Flows and the Potency of Life on the Mekong
DESCRIPTION:Time and the River: Temporal and Material Flows and the Potency of Life on the Mekong\nABSTRACTDams suggest progress – they are a way of arresting the flow of water (and that which it contains) to convert its potential energy into something useable. But in so doing\, dams reconfigure the multiple lives and non-lives within which riparian residents live. But this is a transformation\, not simply an erasure: as multiple scholars have shown\, modernity gives rise to new magics\, and new ways of being. This lecture explores these new ways of negotiating power and potency on a changed river\, asking what new horizons open as old ones close\, and exploring how these new potentials disturb webs of being and dwelling on the river.\n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERAndrew Alan Johnson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University. He is the author of Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River (Duke University Press\, 2022) and Ghosts of the New City: Spirits\, Urbanity and the Ruins of Progress in Urban Northern Thailand (University of Hawaii Press\, 2014).\nORGANIZERS-ASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, under the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G)-NYU Shanghai Centre for Global Asia
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/time-and-the-river-temporal-and-material-flows-and-the-potency-of-life-on-the-mekong/
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