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Buddhism & Social Justice Seminar: From Banking to Bhutan – Emma Slade (Ani Pema Deki)
The INCISE research centre (Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice) held its first seminar in 2017-2018 ‘Buddhism and Social Justice’ Series with a lecture by Emma Slade (Ani Pema Deki), followed by the signing of her book, Set Free.
Emma Slade is an inspirational speaker. Her life has demonstrated the potential for human growth and change. Overcoming the trauma of being held hostage in 1997 in Jakarta she went on to leave her high-flying finance career and embark on a journey to greater understanding.
She has written in clear and honest terms about this journey in her book, Set Free, which describes this and her decision to become ordained as a Buddhist nun in Bhutan. She is ever hopeful that mental wellbeing is increasingly taking centre stage as an inspiring and important subject and believes the tools of mindfulness, compassion and renunciation can play an important role in mental wellbeing and freedom. She attended Cambridge University, Goldsmiths University, became a Chartered Financial Analyst and is the first Western woman ordained in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. In 2015 she founded the UK charity Opening Your Heart to Bhutan to help children in the country she loves so much. Royalties from her book, Set Free, go to this charity.
The book is available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and many other retailers and from the Canterbury Christ Church University Bookshop.
Emma Slade and her book Set Free at the CCCU Bookshop
Programme 2017/2018
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
| 11-13 Sep | John Berger Now Conference at the Sidney Cooper Gallery – More info here | Sidney Cooper Gallery and North Holmes Road campus | |
| 9 Oct | 12:15 – 13:45 | Emma Slade (Ani Pema Deki) Compassion in Action: Founding a Charity for Children in Rural Bhutan INCISE Lunchtime Seminar Buddhism & Social Justice (poster & tickets) |
Jg08 |
| 12 Oct | 17:00-18:30 | Truth, Theory and Knowledge Roundtable INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
Rf31 |
| 20 Oct | 18:25-19:30 | David Bates – Critical Theory INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
Augustine House Terrace 3.31 |
| 23 Oct | 12:15 – 13:45 | Bee Scherer – Social Engagement, Gender and Sexuality: Issues in Buddhist Ethics INCISE Lunchtime Seminar Buddhism & Social Justice (book a place here) |
Jg08 |
| 24 Oct | 11:00-13:00 | What is Humanities Research? Roundtable |
Rf35 |
| 26 Oct | 13:00 – 14:00 | Peter Walker – Intersex: Medical and Social Justice perspectives Intersex awareness day (book a place here) |
Lg46 |
| 4 Dec | rescheduled | Jonathan Mair (University of Kent) – Renouncer’s heart, householder’s body: the ethics of a ‘short-term monastic retreat’ in Taiwan INCISE Lunchtime Seminar Buddhism & Social Justice |
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| 11 Dec | 12:15 – 13:45 | Soeren Keil – Conflict and Religion in Myanmar: Buddhism and Beyond INCISE Lunchtime Seminar Buddhism & Social Justice |
Ng07 |
| 13 Dec | 17:00-18:00 | Will Visconti – Sex work, surveillance and heresy: Venetian witch trials and gendered speech | Lg45 |
| 11 Jan | 11:00-12:30 | James Frost – Introducing Hermeneutics: image and text interpretation INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
tba |
| 25 Jan | 17:00-18:30 | Bee Scherer – Intertextuality INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
Rf31 |
| 27 Jan | 10:00-17:00 | INCISE & Fo Guang Shan London FORUM/ WORKSHOP, Focusing on Humanity (人間 ): Buddhist living in/and/for Contemporary Society’ Buddhism & Social Justice (Book a place here) |
Lg26 |
| 21 Feb | 15:00-16:00 | Bee Scherer – Metaphors of Mindfulness at Work – Morgan, Hanh and Organisations Business School seminar |
Rg02 |
| 22 Feb | 17:00-18:30 | Dan Thorpe – Critical Disability Studies INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
Rf31 |
| 26 Feb | 12:15-13:45 | Jonathan Mair (University of Kent) – Renouncer’s heart, householder’s body: the ethics of a ‘short-term monastic retreat’ in Taiwan INCISE Lunchtime Seminar Buddhism & Social Justice |
Mg01 |
| canceled | Anne Alwis (University of Kent) – Religion and Gender in Byzantine Hagiographies (Postponed until a later date) | tba | |
| 14 Mar | 12:15-13:45 | Leonardo Raznovich – Impact of Sodomy Laws in the Caribbean Book a place here |
Mg18 |
| 15 Mar | 17:00-18:30 | Lynn Revell – Critical Race Theory INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
tba |
| 19 Mar | 17:00-18:30 | Melissa Wilcox (University of California Riverside) – Ethnographic Orthodoxies: Queer Feminist Research Ethics in a Neoliberal Age Book a place here |
Og32 |
| 21 Mar | 17:00-18:30 | Jeremy Law (Dean of Chapel CCCU) – Who are We? Human Evolution, Science and Faith INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science: Epistemic Insight and Identity Book a place here |
Og32 |
| 28 Mar | 17:00-18:30 | Andrew Peterson (Professor of Civic and Moral Education – CCCU) –Epistemic Insight: The role of character INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science: Epistemic Insight and Identity Book a place here |
Og32 |
| 12 Apr | 15:15-16:45 | Linden West – Psychoanalysis INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
Rg04 |
| 18 Apr | 17:00-18:30 | Richard Norman (Professor of Moral Philosophy – Kent) – Science, Religion and Identity – a Humanist Perspective INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science: Epistemic Insight and Identity |
Ng07 |
| 25 Apr | 17:00-18:30 | Lama Jampa Thaye – A Space for Buddhism? INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science: Epistemic Insight and Identity Buddhism & Social Justice |
Og32 |
| canceled | Jennifer Hardes – Foucauldian Theory INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
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| 2 May | 17:00-19:30 | H.E. the 3rd Dupseng Rinpoche (Kirtipur, Nepal) Tibetan Medicine: The Buddhist Science of Healing (Sowa Rigpa) INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science Buddhism & Social Justice |
Og46 |
| 9 May | 17:00-18:30 | Trevor Cooling (NICER – CCCU) Epistemic Insight: reflections on a professional life in science and religious education INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science: Epistemic Insight and Identity |
Og32 |
| 10 May | 11:00-12:30 | Chris Beighton – “No other truth than the creation of the New”: Deleuze and the bestiary of knowledge INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
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| 16 May | 17:00-18:30 | Berry Billingsley (LASAR – CCCU) – Look mum no hands: Ethics and the driverless car INCISE, NICER and LASAR Series on Religion and Science: Epistemic Insight and Identity |
Og32 |
| 19 May | 18:15-19:45 | Bee Scherer (INCISE) –Empty Re-becoming: Buddhist perspectives on existence(s) [more info…] |
Ng07 |
| 21 May | 17:30-19:00 | Ulrike Auga (INCISE) – Challenging the Government of the Living – the Cult of Confession and Bodily, Material Resistance IDAHoBiT Lecture |
Og32 |
| 24 May | 17:00-18:30 | Bee Scherer – Queer Theory INCISE and RDP Theory of Knowledge series |
Rf33 |
| 06 June | 15:00-17:00 | Skip McGoun (Bucknell) – The Corporate Scenography of Finance Co-sponsored with the Business School and SPARC |
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| 12 Aug | 11am (start) | Global Federation for Nepali Literature (GFNL) Second Conference Contact: Mr. Biswadip Tigela, Facebook English language Keynote Bee Scherer ‘The Buddha Raising Arms: Religion and Revolution in Narayan Wagle’s Palpasa Café (पल्पसा क्याफे, 2005)’ |
Og46 |
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