Variant Dharma: Buddhist queers, queered Buddhisms

The Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies and the Program in South Asian Studies PRESENTS Professor Bee Scherer Chair in Comparative Religion, Gender and Sexuality Canterbury Christ Church University, U.K. Variant Dharma: Buddhist queers, queered Buddhisms Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 4:30pm SS 541 Professor Scherer investigates human sexualities and gender diversities within the vast array of Buddhist traditions from textual-historical, philosophical and anthropological angles. How did Buddhist attitudes towards LGBTI identities and practices develop and transform through time and space? Which philosophical and cultural frameworks and paradigms aid, limit or obstruct sexual and gender diversity within various Buddhisms? The lecture will point to possible intersections, commonalities and disjunctions between Buddhist philosophies & performances and Queer theory & subversions, and exemplify the reception of the queering impulses within Buddhist traditions. In the conclusion, some light is shed on what sexual and gender diversity, equality and the avoidance of sexual misconduct might mean for Buddhists and Buddhisms today. http://www.ucalgary.ca/numatachair/Events
Location:
Social Sciences 541
Speaker:
Professor Bee Scherer
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/variant-dharma-buddhist-queers-queered-buddhisms