From: Faculty and Research E-Memo (memofrom@Colorado.EDU)
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 20:17:26 MDT
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:17:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Faculty and Research E-Memo <memofrom@Colorado.EDU> Subject: Texts and Sex: Representations of Sexuality in Asian Religious Traditions
TO: Boulder Campus Teaching & Research Faculty,
Deans, Directors, Dept Chairs, System Administration
FROM: Center for Asian Studies and the Department of Religious Studies
SENDER: Julie Kang (hyun.kang@colorado.edu)
DATE: October 9, 2009
SUBJECT: Texts and Sex: Representations of Sexuality in Asian Religious Traditions
Texts and Sex: Representations of Sexuality in Asian Religious Traditions, a
Conference Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, the Kayden Award, and
the Department of Religious Studies
October 15-16, 2009
Woodruff Women's Studies Cottage Library
Keynote Speaker: Ron Davidson, Fairfield University, October 15, 6:00 p.m.
In Eaton Humanities 250 "Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: the
Advent of Tantric Buddhist Sexual Praxis"
This conference addresses the relationships between sexuality and religious
textual traditions, especially focusing on Asian scriptural texts. The
conference will begin with a symposium on Loriliai Biernacki's "Renowned
Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra" (Oxford 2007), which won
the Kayden Award in 2008. This topic ties into a larger conference
addressing representations of sexuality in scriptural sources. Asian
religious traditions typically present greater latitude in the expression of
sexuality, evidenced in, for instance, the variety of esoteric traditions
that explicitly involve sexuality. This conference offers comparative scope,
bringing together specialists across traditions to address this understudied
topic.
For complete schedule, please see http://www.colorado.edu/cas/calendar.htm
or contact casevent@colorado.edu or 303.735.5511.
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