22 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2024 Waste: Cultural Imaginaries and Materiality This 3-day PhD course is relevant to PhD students interested in climate change, toxicity, economic systems, religion, ecology, and material culture from a humanities perspective.
25 Apr. - 26 Apr. 2024 WASTE & VALUE conference Registration is now open. Limited spaces available. Hosted by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and the research project WASTE: Consumption and Buddhism in the age of garbage.
3 Oct. - 4 Oct. 2024 CFP: ‘Biographies of Excess’ Workshop ‘Biographies of Excess’ explores the question of excess in religious practice and how such a culturally and socially malleable concept comes to be imparted onto objects at times and in particular geographies. This…
22 Feb. 2024, TBA Waste ethnographies workshop The workshop is conceived as a platform for open-ended inquiry and collaborative problem-solving, rather than a one-way knowledge dissemination event.
2 Nov. 2023, 10:00-12:00 Sacred Canopies: LGBT+, Buddhism and Economics in Vietnam Six speakers and a roundtable discussion exploring the question: how to theorize new spiritual and sexual formations in post-Socialist Vietnam?