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SUMMARY:"Where is the Mind in the Atom? Materializing the Moral Imagination in the Shadow of the Mind and Life Dialogues"
DESCRIPTION:Room 614\, Jackman Humanities Building (170 St George Street\, Toronto ON M5R 2M8)\nOr on Zoom (Find link here) \nYehan Numata Program Lecture with Dr Matt King \nWhat are the epistemic and institutional limits of brainhood as an anthropological figure of modernity? When the Tibetan refugee diaspora became a global stage for the Buddhism-science encounter during “the Decade of the Brain” (1990s)\, monastic critics working along the epistemic and institutional margins of the early Mind & Life Dialogues (1987-1995) sought to elaborately refuse “the closure principle” of exclusive materialism. Their previously unstudied efforts elaborately extended a four-century history of Inner Asian Buddhist engagements with European-derived naturalism\, and brought new bio-modern objects like “neurons” and “cells” into the disciplinary arenas of classical South and Inner Asian medicine\, tantric physiology\, and Mahāyā-na philosophy. \nKing argues that attention to this flush of materialist and moral thinking about the tyranny of the very small (“the microscopic sublime”) lends itself to several experimental projects in the critical Asian humanities: diversifying our sources for a global history of neurocultures\, refusing the chronic psychologization of Buddhist Studies\, and delinking from the category blindness of religion-science. \nMatthew W. King is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California\, Riverside. He currently serves as UCR’s Director of Asian Studies\, Co-Director of the Medical & Health Humanities\, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Health Humanities & Disability Justice Lab. A historian of Inner Asian Buddhism\, Matthew’s published work has explored scholastic thought along the Tibet-Mongol interface on such topics as the 13th-14th century Mongol Empire\, philology and tantric self-cultivation in the 18th-19th centuries\, literati cultures in the Qing Empire\, and biomedical modernity\, humanism\, and Orientalism amidst socialist state building in the 20th century. His first book\, Ocean of Milk\, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia University Press\, 2019)\, won several awards\, including the American Academy of Religion’s 2020 award for Best Book in Textual Study. Other recent books include In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press\, 2022) and\, with Khenpo Kunga Sherab\, The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage (Simon & Schuster/Wisdom Publications\, 2024).
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/where-is-the-mind/
LOCATION:170 St George St\, 170 St George St\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:BPSU Seminar with Prof Paul Whissell
DESCRIPTION:Join the BPSU for an academic seminar on January 23rd\, from 4:00–5:00 PM\, at the Psychology Lounge (Sidney Smith 4043). Connect with Professor Paul Whissell in an engaging session while enjoying free food and pastries!\n\nDon’t miss this chance to connect\, learn\, and savor some delicious treats. Please register to secure your spot!\n\nRegistration Link:\n \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1NOsHiGVAGnsLT8-fEi4A4zYE2PPo-4JHD6XNULWS-WUlgA/viewform\n\nPaul Whissell is an interdisciplinary academic whose teaching program focuses on science\, science communication\, and the intersection of science with society. He first began teaching in 2015\, shortly after attaining his Ph.D. in Neuroscience. He quickly found a love for the role and the community\, both students and faculty. He has since taught over 40 courses in multiple academic units at several universities\, including the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. As an instructor\, Dr. Whissell has taught cutting-edge content\, writing skills\, debating strategies\, presentation methods\, and laboratory techniques to aspiring students from 1st to 4th year. Dr Whissell was the 2019-2020 Kathleen O’Connell Teaching Excellence Award winner. Dr Whissell teaches BPMH’s popular Meditation and the Body course.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/paul-whissell/
LOCATION:Psychology Lounge (Sidney Smith 4043)
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SUMMARY:EASE Lab January research meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a research meeting (plus snacks and social time)\, with presentations by Norm Farb and Autumn Rennie. \nLocation: Wilson Hall\, Room 2053 and Online (Register here for Zoom link) \nNorman Farb\, PhD\, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga\, where he directs the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics laboratory (www.radlab.zone). He studies the psychology of well-being\, focusing on mental habits\, such as how we think about ourselves and interpret our emotions. He is particularly interested in why people differ in their resilience to stress\, depression\, and anxiety. Prof. Farb’s work currently explores online training to assess and support wellbeing\, and neuroimaging to understand how emotional responses predict mental health over the lifespan. \nOlivia-Autumn Rennie is an independent filmmaker and 4th-year MD/PhD student at the University of Toronto. At the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology\, Autumn is particularly interested in philosophies of science and medicine\, and how these fields intertwine with cinematic technologies. As a filmmaker\, academic researcher\, and physician-in-training\, Autumn works to leverage the power of screen-based media to raise awareness about critical issues in medicine and society. Her PhD is a ‘research-creation’ project\, producing films that challenge ideas surrounding disability\, and develop a truly ‘collaborative’ filmmaking approach which enables patients to become key players in the filmmaking process themselves. With an educational background originally in neuroscience\, she is particularly interested in exploring the lived experience of individuals with neurological and/or psychological diseases\, disorders\, or injuries.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/january-research-meeting/
LOCATION:Wilson Hall Room 2053\, 40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
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SUMMARY:EASE Lab Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of the EASE Lab! \nAt our first meeting\, we’ll hear about some exciting new research in development by Professor Mark Miller\, plus a report on a recent research project undertaken by Undergraduate EASE Lab Fellow Mridula Sathyanarayanan. \nWe’ll look forward to meeting everyone! \nOur meeting will take place in person at Wilson Hall Room 2053\, and also on Zoom. Please register at https://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/ease-lab-launch/   to receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/ease-lab-launch/
LOCATION:40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 1C6\, 40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch for Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors\, Joy\, and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Join Marisela Gomez and Kaira Jewel Lingo in a virtual book launch for their recently released book\, Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors\, Joy\, and Liberation. They will discuss how Buddhist practice supports their work for social and racial equity and justice in their professional and personal lives. \nWednesday\, November 20\, 2024\, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST\nOnline via Zoom – REGISTER HERE \nIn Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors\, Joy\, and Liberation\, join three friends\, three Black women\, all teachers in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thích Nhất Hạnh\, in intimate conversation\, touching on the pain and beauty of their families of origin\, relationships and loneliness\, intimacy and sexuality\, politics\, popular culture\, race\, self-care and healing. Healing Our Way Home offers insights in embodied mindfulness practice to support readers working to heal white supremacy\, internalized racial oppression\, and other aspects of social and cultural conditioning\, leading to a firm sense of belonging and abiding joy. \nIf you would like to purchase Healing Our Way Home\, use discount code U0T20 for 20% off the ebook version or printed copy at Parallax Press. \nMeet the authors \nMarisela B. Gomez\, MD\, True Manifestation of Reverence\, is a co-founder of Village of Love and Resistance in Baltimore Maryland\, organizing for power\, healing and the reclamation of land. She is a meditation and Buddhist teacher\, physician scientist\, and holistic health practitioner. She lives in the lands previously stewarded by the Piscataway\, Lumbi and other tribes\, colonized as Baltimore Maryland in the USA. She is the author of Race\, Class\, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore along with other scholarly\, political\, and spiritual writings.. \nKaira Jewel Lingo teaches Buddhist meditation\, mindfulness\, and compassion internationally\, with a focus on activists\, people of color\, artists\, educators\, families\, and youth. She began practicing mindfulness in 1997. An ordained nun of 15 years in Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Order of Interbeing\, she is now a lay Dharma teacher based in Washington\, D.C.\, leading retreats in the U.S. and internationally\, and offering mindfulness programs for educators and youth in schools\, as well as individual spiritual mentoring. \nValerie Brown\, True Sangha Power (pronouns she/her)\, is a Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition\, ordained in 2018\, and a member of Religious Society of Friends. She transformed her twenty-year\, high-pressure career as a lawyer-lobbyist into human-scale\, social-equity-centered work\, guiding leaders and organizations to foster greater understanding\, authenticity\, compassion\, and trust.
URL:https://easelab.ca/event/healing-our-way-home/
LOCATION:Online
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