Description:

This is the second in a series of In-Person Workshops hosted by the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern (KFBSLS). This Workshop draws together the international cohort of Khyentse Foundation-funded doctoral students together with the Buddhist studies doctoral students at Northwestern for an in-person weekend at Northwestern's main campus in Evanston, Illinois. Over the course of two days, each KFBSLS participant receives a one-hour slot to present their work and then engage in a roundtable discussion with the rest of our KFBSLS community, alongside our honored keynote speaker Amy Langenberg.

Dr. Langenberg will open our Workshop on Thursday evening by delivering her keynote address: "Did the Buddha Teach Consent?: A Reception Studies Approach."

As one aspect of her current work on Buddhist sexual ethics, in this lecture Dr. Langenberg will explore ideas of sexual consent found in monastic legal texts. Because sexual consent is such a central feature of sexual ethics in social and legal spheres in the contemporary US, this example is also a starting place for asking methodological questions about how we read authoritative Buddhist texts from the premodern period. Is it intellectually responsible for us, as scholars, to bring contemporary questions and concerns to bear on authoritative premodern Buddhist texts, questions they or their traditional interpreters may not explicitly pose themselves? If so, when and how? If not, why not? In this presentation, Dr. Langenberg borrows from Classical Reception Studies to suggest some possible answers.

Description:

This is the second in a series of In-Person Workshops hosted by the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern (KFBSLS). This Workshop draws together the international cohort of Khyentse Foundation-funded doctoral students together with the Buddhist studies doctoral students at Northwestern for an in-person weekend at Northwestern's main campus in Evanston, Illinois. Over the course of two days, each KFBSLS participant receives a one-hour slot to present their work and then engage in a roundtable discussion with the rest of our KFBSLS community, alongside our honored keynote speaker Amy Langenberg. Dr. Langenberg will open our Workshop on Thursday evening by delivering her keynote address: "Did the Buddha Teach Consent?: A Reception Studies Approach."

Description:

This is the second in a series of In-Person Workshops hosted by the Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern (KFBSLS). This Workshop draws together the international cohort of Khyentse Foundation-funded doctoral students together with the Buddhist studies doctoral students at Northwestern for an in-person weekend at Northwestern's main campus in Evanston, Illinois. Over the course of two days, each KFBSLS participant receives a one-hour slot to present their work and then engage in a roundtable discussion with the rest of our KFBSLS community, alongside our honored keynote speaker Amy Langenberg. Dr. Langenberg will open our Workshop on Thursday evening by delivering her keynote address: "Did the Buddha Teach Consent?: A Reception Studies Approach."