Buddhism in the Anthropocene

This workshop will bring together scholars working on Buddhist responses to the array of concatenating phenomena that characterize the Anthropocene, the epoch defined by the unprecedented impact of human activity on global environmental processes.

 A replication of NASA imagining of the Earth is a part of the central shrine at the Origins Center, Balingup, Western Australia. Photo provided by Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko

The workshop is organized by Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies and Jovan Maud, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. It will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany. Read the Call for papers.