Feb. 21, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
McCune Hall, 6020 HSSB
This lecture addresses how Chinese Buddhist teachings and practices can contribute to global efforts to protect the environment, tackle pollution, and deal with climate change. It will provide examples from Chinese Buddhist scriptures as well as Buddhist practices. Venerable Yifa will also discuss the compatibility and divergences between Buddhist teachings and modern environmental science.
Venerable Yifa is from Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Yale Universitv and Dean of the University of the West in Los Angeles. She founded the Woodenfish Foundation in 2002 to educate Western college students in Buddhism at important historical religious sites of Chinese Buddhism.
As part of the “Sound, Screen, and Stages from Taiwan” series at the Center for Taiwan Studies, we are pleased to welcome Prof. Kyle Shernuk (Queen Mary University of London) to speak on “(Auto)Ethnography and Identity in Contemporary Taiwan: The Oceanic Epistemology of Syaman Rapongan & Indigenous Alterity of Heather Tsui.”
The talk will take place on Monday, November 1, 2021, at 12:00–1:30pm PDT. Join us at: http://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82164088119. For more information, please consult the poster or email eastasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu.
The Center for Taiwan Studies has released its Fall 2021 newsletter. Read more about all of CTS’s events and initiatives here.
Join us for the first event in the
Center for Taiwan Studies three-part panel series
Taiwan Makes History on “The Gender of Empire,” guest directed and moderated by
Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi University)!
We will welcome historians
Fang Yu Hu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga),
Tadashi Ishikawa (University of Central Florida), and
Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) to discuss how the lens of gender can change our understanding of the Taiwanese colonial research. The panelists will introduce their current research on how the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan attempted to shape and create gender norms and practices. They will discuss methodologies for uncovering how Taiwanese men and women mediated, responded and contested idealized norms and forged their own paths. What were the competing notions of Taiwanese femininity and masculinity circulating at this time? What larger conclusions can be drawn about the experience of the Taiwanese versus other colonial peoples throughout the Japanese empire and beyond?
Date: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Time: 4-5 PM PST
Zoom link: http://bit.ly/TaiwanTalks
