Buddhism and Economic Relations in Asia: Exchange, Mediation, Creation of Value

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Buddhism and Economic Relations in Asia: Exchange, Mediation, Creation of Value

Workshop and lectures at Tallinn University School of Humanities, 16-17.03.2017

The workshop aims to introduce the Danish Research Council-funded collaborative research project to all interested colleagues and students at TLU. The objective is to inquire into contemporary relations between business and Buddhism through bridging language-based area studies, religious studies, anthropology and economics. The lectures will present and discuss concepts of exchange, mediation, and value creation, among other concepts of material culture and exchanges.

Workshop participants: Trine Brox (PI) (ToRS, Copenhagen), Elizabeth 脴rberg (ToRS, Copenhagen), Marianne Hedegaard (ToRS, Copenhagen) Alexander Horstmann (Tallinn).

16 March

Alexander Horstmann will give a lecture in the seminar of Hannes Palang on Cultural Landscapes Research on 16 March at 10.00-11.30 in room M328 on Charismatic capitalism: Re-building the Land of the Buddha in the Golden Triangle.

17 March

Trine Brox (Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen) will give a lecture on 17 March at 10.00-11.00 in room M328 on Economy and Buddhism in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone. 

Elizabeth 脴rberg (Postdoc, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen ) will give a lecture on The Spectacle of Buddhist Rituals: Recent Transformations of Monastery Festivals in Leh, Ladakh on 17 March at 11.00-12.00 in room M328.

For inquiries, contact Alexander Horstmann (alexander.horstmann@tlu.ee)

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