Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

Past events

Building Buddhist Worlds

This one-day workshop explores the building of new urban infrastructures in Asia that leverage Buddhism’s sustainable ideals and image. Tremendous urban infrastructure aspirations and needs face Asia.

Sanitary Rituals: Menstruation among the Newars in Sankhu, Nepal

Pre-defence review of Sierra Humbert’s thesis.

7 May 2024, 16:00

Navigating dangerous emotions and progress in Bhutan: Buddhist lesson for sustainability

Talk with Dasho Karma Ura.

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.

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.

17 Nov. 2023, 13:00-15:00

Waste temporalities and practices in India and Japan

Panel discussion.

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?

26 Oct. 2023, 10:00-15:00

The Ethics of Practice-Based Research

This workshop is designed as a platform for open-ended inquiry and collaborative problem-solving,

Waste interventions, case work, and fieldwork workshop

2 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Plastic Temporalities and the Materiality of Connection on Christmas Island

Presentation by Saskia Adelle Abrahms-Kavunenko, CCBS, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. Discussant: Trine Brox, Associate Professor, CCBS, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

22 May - 23 May 2023

Buddhist, Spiritual and Ecological Movements

A two-day workshop that will explore the ways that Buddhist modernism continue to transform spiritual and ecological movements within and beyond the 21st century.

4 May - 5 May 2023

Business Spirits: Contested Terrains of Trade Models and Religious Value

Can we analyze religion and economy without assuming that these are two a priori distinct fields of action?

3 May 2023, 14:00-15:30

How can we best understand spiritual alternativity?

This mini-seminar unpacks the dichotomy of organized and unorganized religions, sometimes called fuzzy religions.

The 9th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

The ninth CCBS writing workshop will take place on Thursday February 9, 2023

14 Dec. 2022, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

16 Nov. 2022, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

The Market Economy and Ritual Discards

Workshop on the intersection of ritual practices, the market economy and attendant discard in the contemporary period.

8th Contemporary Buddhist Studies writing workshop

Writing workshop on Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

13 Oct. 2022, 13:00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

12 Oct. 2022, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

29 Sept. 2022, 13:00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

22 Sept. 2022, 16:00

CCBS reading group

Reading group open to everbody.

14 Sept. 2022, 10:00-11:15

The Corporate Form of Religion Reading Group

Reading group exploring how post-1970s spirituality has synchronized with neoliberalism.

23 June - 24 June 2022

Engineering Buddhism

Workshop exploring how Buddhism is playing a role in providing platforms and resources for matters that were once largely considered state or political affairs.

14 June - 15 June 2022

Buddhism in the Anthropocene

This workshop will bring together scholars working on Buddhist responses to the array of concatenating phenomena that characterize the Anthropocene.

Tibetan Materialities Workshop

The Tibetan Materialities workshop will take place at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

3 May - 5 May 2022

PhD-course WASTE: Cultural imaginaries and materiality

3-day course for PhD-students