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Eric Huntington, PhD, T. T. and W. F. Chao Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University, is an interdisciplinary scholar of Buddhist studies. He employs methods from religious studies, art history and area studies to investigate complex topics of doctrine, ritual, philosophy, and visual and material culture. Specializing in Southern and Central Asia, he also addresses issues of transnational connection and comparison. His work traces long histories and contrasts disparate traditions to better understand both widespread features of religion and the unique ideas, practices and objects of specific cultural contexts.

Ugyan Choedup, PhD, is a third-generation, exile-born Tibetan. He completed his schooling at Tibetan refugee schools in India and earned his M.Phil in China studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He received his doctorate in History from Pennsylvania State University, with a dissertation, "Tibet's Winding Road: Modernity, Nationalism and Unsettled Exile." He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer with the Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He also co-hosts "Khyeltam," a Tibetan language podcast.

This lecture will include lunch. Please register so we can plan.

Julie Regan, PhD, draws on years of study and practice in Buddhist traditions, and she holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and PhD in Religion from Harvard University. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach to reading a variety of texts, performances and rituals, from early Sanskrit court poetry to contemporary Tibetan works of art, literature and protest. She published essays on Buddhist pedagogy, the role of aesthetics and poetics in interpreting Buddhist religious texts, and discourses of gender in Tibetan Buddhism. Her book in progress presents original translations of the works of the second century author Aśvaghoṣa from Sanskrit and Tibetan and explores the relationship between literary experience and practices of liberation in Buddhism. Most recently, she has taught courses on Buddhism in Asia and beyond; Tibetan Buddhism; Zen Buddhism; and Yoga, Dharma and Devotion at La Salle University and New York University.

C. Pierce Salguero, PhD, professor of Asian History and Health Humanities at The Abington College of Pennsylvania State University, is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine and crosscultural exchange. After spending years studying traditional medicine in Thailand, he completed his doctorate in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2010. The major theme in his scholarship is discovering the role of Buddhism in the global transmission and local reception of knowledge about health, disease and the body. He approaches this topic using methodologies from history, religious studies, translation studies, literary studies and ethnography, and he is passionate about connecting his scholarship and teaching with contemporary issues and events both within and beyond the academy.

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