Events
Week of Events
Tai Chi in the Galleries
Tai Chi in the Galleries
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice known to reduce pain and improve your mental and physical balance and well-being. This class uses gentle Sun-style tai chi routines that are safe, easy to learn, and suitable for all ages … Read more
Women and Animals: Culinary Dilemmas and Karmic Entanglement
Women and Animals: Culinary Dilemmas and Karmic Entanglement
Late sixteenth-century China witnessed a surge in the popularity of the Buddhist practice of buying animals and then setting them free. Releasing life, as it was called, could be practiced informally or as part of highly elaborate releasing-life ceremonies organized … Read more
Rare Book Collection Recent Acquisitions Evening
Rare Book Collection Recent Acquisitions Evening
Please join us for a not-under-glass display of additions to the Rare Book Collection from the past two years, including the Library’s eight-millionth volume, presented by the Hanes Family Foundation. This year’s event features important works on the history of … Read more
Ecological Exceptionalism at the Border: Landscapes of Hope and Impossibility in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Ecological Exceptionalism at the Border: Landscapes of Hope and Impossibility in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Despite its name, the 60-year-old Korean Demilitarized Zone has more than one million soldiers facing off across the four-km-wide area and an equal number of landmines within it. Enduring national division makes the DMZ a naturalized feature and yet created … Read more
Southeast Asia Speaker Series: Anne Hansen: “Buddhist Temporality and Interpretations of Mass Atrocity in Cambodia”
Southeast Asia Speaker Series: Anne Hansen: “Buddhist Temporality and Interpretations of Mass Atrocity in Cambodia”
A lecture by Anne Hansen, Professor of Religious Studies and Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Buddhist Temporality and Interpretations of Mass Atrocity in Cambodia Buddhist prophesies about the end of our time and the dawning of a … Read more
Korean Film Screening: The Remnants (2016)
Korean Film Screening: The Remnants (2016)
The Remnants profiles five persons, in fact victims of the Yongsan Tragedy, but instead prosecuted as perpetrators. They were accused as joint principal offenders just because they had been at the spot of the incident. The production group Yonbunhongchima, after … Read more
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