Upcoming Events & News
2025
Filmscreening of & Discussant for „The Monk and the Gun,“ February 12, 2025. https://cinematheque-leipzig.de/programm/filme/the-monk-and-the-gun/. Every two months, together with the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences „Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities“ of Leipzig University, we screen documentaries and movies rarely seen in German cinemas.
“The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC): Navigating Buddhist Identity, Resources, and Technology in the Climate Crisis,” paper accepted. GLORISUN International Symposium on Buddhism and Global Governance: Artificial Intelligence, Regional Conflicts, and Climate Change, Centre Études Interdisciplinaires sur le Bouddhisme (CEIB)/Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Paris, July 2025.
“Believe” as a Global Brand: Colonial Perspectives, Buddhism, and Sustainable Development in the Making of Bhutan” (submitted). 23rd World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR). Jagiellonian University & Polish Society for the Study of Religions, Krakow, August 2025.
“Buddhist Epistemes of Nature, the Environment, and the Climate Crisis,” Panel organizer (submitted). 20th International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), Leipzig University, August 2025.