Core Seminars
All PhD students are required to participate in the seminars pertinent to their own curriculum
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
First PhD Teaching Block and Buddhist Studies Lectures
November 30, 2022
11:00-13:00 – Edoardo Siani (Venice): Diviners in Bangkok: A fieldwork-based approach to the study of Buddhism
Sala A, Ca’ Vendramin dei Carmini, Venezia
The lecture will be both in person and online
Readings:
Pattana, Kitiarsa 2005. “Beyond Syncretism: Hybridization of Popular Religion in Contemporary Thailand”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 36(3), pp. 461-87.
Jackson, P. 2020. “Beyond Hybridity and Syncretism: Kala-Thesa Contextual Sensitivity and Power in Thai Religious and Gender Cultures”, Journal of Anthropology, Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (JASAC) 3(1), pp. 1-37.
December 13, 2022
10:00-11:30 – Michael Radich (Heidelberg): Developing Issues and Methods in Buddhist Studies
Sala A, Ca’ Vendramin dei Carmini, Venezia
The lecture will be both in person and online
Agiografia e conventi – Eritrea ed Etiopia della Tarda Antichità
Prof. Alessandro Bausi (Hamburg)
March 9-10, 2023
University of Florence
Tafsir as Mystical Experience
Prof. Todd Lawson (Toronto)
December 14, 2022, 16:00
Online
Elective Activities
Students should choose to attend further academic events and activities from the list below
November 18-25-29; December 2-6 – Perugia – Palazzo Stocchi, Piazza Morlacchi 30 (also online) – Lecture Series on Buddhist Modernisms organized by Prof. Ester Bianchi
November 30 – December 2, 2022 – Roma – Convegno Internazionale di Studi – Essere universali nel mondo cattolico. Monarchie iberiche e Papato tra gestione del sacro, santità, pratiche missionarie ed evangelizzazione
December 2, 2022 – Roma – Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut – Presentazione dei libri “Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal” (2020) e “Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal” (2021)
December 2, 2022 – Macerata – NEL SEGNO DI PADRE PAOLO DALL’OGLIO. Teologia, arte e dialogo interreligioso a Mar Musa (Siria)
November 30 – December 4, 2022 – Trento – Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Il senso impervio: Vette e abissi dell’interpretazione estrema
December 1, 2022 – Rome – UCEI – Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia – Giornata di studi “Judaica cognoscenda et custodienda. Catalogazione e tutela del patrimonio librario ebraico in Italia“
December 9, 2022 – ON LINE – h. 10:00 – PARRESIA, piattaforma digitale del network Cantiere Storico Filologico – L’Iraq e il mondo. “Crocevia” delle genti – L’evento sarà trasmesso in diretta sul canale YouTube della piattaforma Parresia