Lecture Series
Spring 2009
January 28
Robbie Barnett, Columbia University
"Buddhism and film in Tibet and Mongolia"
Presented by the Society for the Study of Asian Religions
4:30 PM
451 College Street, Room B-04
February 4
Andrew Quintman, Princeton University
"Life Writing as Literary Relic: Image, Inscription, and Consecration in
Tibetan Buddhist Biography"
Presented by the Department of Religious Studies
4:30PM
451 College Street, Room B-04
February 4, 11 & 17
Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University
"Myth, History, and Prophecy in Christian-Jewish Relations"
SESSION 1 - "Christ, Antichrist, Jew: Jews and Judaism in
Christian Eschatology"
SESSION 2 - "The Power of the Passion Narrative in
Jewish-Christian Interaction"
SESSION 3 - “The Blood Libel and Jewish Perceptions on the Eve
of Modernity: Readings from Solomon Ibn Verga's
'Shevet Yehudah'”
Presented by the Arffa Lecture Series
4:00 PM
Slifka Center - 80 Wall Street
February 6
Annabella Pitkin, Columbia University
“Of Indian Beggars, Crazy Lamas, and Sanskrit Scholars:
Modern Tibetan Buddhist Identities and the Re-appropriation of Tradition"
Presented by the Department of Religious Studies
3:00 PM
451 College Street, Room B-04
February 9
Jann Ronis, University of Virginia
“Bending the Rules and Overstepping Boundaries: The Cultural History of a
Monastic Revival in 18th-Century Eastern Tibet”
2:30PM
451 College Street, Room B-04
March 4
Toru Funayama, Kyoto University and Harvard University
“Calling Oneself a Saint: Religious Awareness in Medieval
Chinese Buddhism”
Presented by the Society for the Study of Asian Religions
4:30 PM
451 College Street, Room B-04
March 5
Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame
"Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History, and Modernity"
Presented by the Newman Lectures
5:00 PM
McDougal Center, 320 York Street, Room 119B
March 24, 26, 31 & April 2
Marilynne Robinson, University of Iowa
“Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the
Modern Myth of the Self”
Presented by the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship
4:15 PM
Linsly-Chittenden Hall - 63 High Street, Room 102
April 6
Dale Allison, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
“Constructing Jesus: Memory and Imagination"
Presented by the Newman Fund and the Barbara & Morris Levinson Fund
5:30 PM
Whitney Humanities Center - 53 Wall Street, Room 208
April 22
Eugene Wang, Harvard University
"Pictures in a Dunhuang Cave: Dream Thoughts and
Subjectivity in Buddhist Art."
Presented by the Society for the Study of Asian Religions
4:30 PM
451 College Street, Room B-04
April 23
Veronique Bouillier, CNRS, Paris
"The Gorakhnathi Yogis' Monastic Institutions"
Presented by the Society for the Study of Asian Religions and the Woodrow Fund
4:30 PM
Luce Hall - 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 102
