Debate
LUCIP Workshop: "(re)reading and (re)writing Buddhist genders"
- Date
- Saturday 16 August 2025
- Time
- Location
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Rapenburg 28
2301 EC Leiden - Room
- Trajanuszaal
The workshop is organized by Leiden Center for Intercultural Philosophy (LUCIP), with the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
The workshop explores how to (re)read and (re)write gendered experiences and realities for reimagining, both conceptually and methodologically, the theorization of Buddhist genders. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries, participants in this workshop draw from anthropological, archeological, doctrinal, historical, and philosophical resources throughout different time periods in the Buddhist world. Together, they reconceptualize analytic categories related to “gender,” further revisiting affects, embodied performances, ritual spaces, social roles and relationships, community building, cultural memories, and modernity from a gendered perspective. As such, the workshop not only engages in a conceptual rediscovery of ideas, objects, and norms, but also invites a methodological intervention. In particular, workshop participants will reflect upon the modernist presumptions inserted into the articulation of gender and sexuality to investigate how these concepts can be efficaciously refashioned into theoretical apparatuses in the Buddhist context. Methodologically, this investigation aims to lay the hermeneutical groundwork for a skillful and responsible reading strategy that can facilitate the exchange between scholars and practitioners.
For registration, please email Dr. Jingjing Li (j.li@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Participants
Katherine Bowie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Erik W. Davis (Macalester College)
Gwendolyn Gillson (Illinois College)
Amy Langenberg (Eckerd College)
Jingjing Li (Leiden University)
Jue Liang (Case Western Reserve University)
Xu Ma (Lafayette College)
Bruno M. Shirley (Universität Heidelberg)
Nicole Willock (Old Dominion University)
Jessica Zu (University of Southern California)