On the 18th of May INCISE, together with Venerable Nuns from the London Fo Guang Shan Temple and Volunteers from the Buddha Light International Association organised a workshop on Vegetarianism and Buddhism.
The Venerable Ru Hai, superintendent of the London Temple, prepared some wonderful Chinese vegetarian pastries for everyone to sample. How to make these yourself is shown in the video below.
The Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) in cooperation with the London Fo Guang Shan Temple would like to invite people to a workshop on Vegetarianism and Buddhism on Saturday the 18th of May at 14:00 at Canterbury Christ Church Univesity.
Together with volunteers from the Buddha Light International Association and the venerables from Fo Guang Shan we explore why certain schools of Buddhism opt for a strict vegetarian lifestyle and we will find out how to cook according to this diet.
Registration is open through the Canterbury Christ Church University box office at
https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-culture/event-details.aspx?instance=277606
Places are limited, so book soon for this free event.
INCISE is delighted to announce the appointement of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Auga as Visiting Professor at INCISE.
Prof. Auga will give her INCISE Visiting Professorship Inaugural Lecture on
Monday, 21 May 2018
5:30-7pm, Og32 (Old Session House, ground floor)
This is also INCISEs lecture marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). Book your place here (free).
Abstract
Michel Foucault’s On the Government of the Living (2012) explains how confession and obedience shape the ‘modern’ concept of the subject. The ‘West’ developed a false concept of confession as ‘liberation’. Jo Sol’s documentary Fake Orgasm (2010) stages performer Lazlo Pearlman who explores the subversion of confessional culture via the use of the nude transsexual body. As a transsexual performer s/he* experiences the strong request of the audience to confess his/her* ‘identity’, which s/he* resists. Pearlman performs a corporeal insurrection. The presentation using film extracts elaborates how the performative and material body denounces the production of the ontological, identitarian body and bio-political regulations and allows for a genealogical, and critical discussion.
Ulrike E. Auga is Visiting Professor at the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) at Canterbury Christ Church University. Born in East Berlin, she is a Gender, Cultural and Religious Studies scholar at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin (ZtG). Currently, Dr. Auga also teaches Gender Studies at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria. She is the Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender (IARG). Her research interests include: Gender, Cultural Memory, Nationalisms, Fundamentalisms in Transition Contexts (South Africa, West Africa, East/West Germany); Gender, Performativity and Agency in the Visual Archive; Postcolonial, Postsecular, Gender / Queer theory development; Posthuman Epistemology.
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
Lecture for IDAHOT[Download our event poster as a PDF here]
Professor Aleardo Zanghellini
17 May 2017, 5pm in Lg16 at Canterbury Christ Church University
Abstract: In this paper I discuss a recent Family Court decision in which a parent who transitioned to a different gender after separation was denied direct contact with her children. The reason why the Court rejected the trans parent’s application for a contact order was that, had the children maintained contact with her, they would have been rejected by the fundamentalist Orthodox Jewish community within which they and the cisgender parent live. I critique the soundness of the Court’s decision, including on the ground that it has the effect of ratifying religious transphobia, and I argue that neither the law nor the children’s best interest required this outcome. I also argue that political philosophy can help us understand why.
Bio: Aleardo Zanghellini is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the School of Law, University of Reading. His areas of research interest are law, gender & sexuality; legal philosophy; and law & literature. Prof Zanghellini’s work regularly appears in leading international journals. His 2015 book, The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority, is an analysis of the erotic dimensions of state power, arguing that the disavowal of male same-sex desire has been, and partly remains, central to mainstream understandings of political authority.
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