May 5, 2025Guest Lecture: Recovering Sayagyi U Ba Khin: Globalizing Vipassanā from a Post-nuclear RangoonDaniel M. Stuart (University of Hamburg). Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:00pm (London). In person lecture at University of Oxford.
May 8, 2025“Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond” Lecture Series: Subscribing to a canonLucille Chia (University of California at Riverside). Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 14:00 (London). In person, FAMES Room 8/9, University of Cambridge.
May 19, 2025Guest Lecture: Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song: Medieval Traditions in Modern TransmissionStephen Ithel Duran (University of Oxford). Monday, May 19, 2025, 5:00pm (London). In person lecture at University of Oxford.
May 22, 2025“Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond” Lecture Series: Ghost Photography: Science for Cultivation, Buddhism for ReasonNataly Shahaf (Princeton University). Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 14:00 (London). In person, FAMES Room 8/9, University of Cambridge.
June 2, 2025Guest Lecture: Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to ChinaZhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute). Monday, June 2, 2025, 5:00 pm (London). In person lecture at University of Oxford.
June 12, 2025“Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond” Lecture Series: Echoes of Compassion: The Guanyin Festival as Living Intangible Heritage in Hong KongIrene Lok (University of Cambridge). Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 14:00 (London). In person, University of Cambridge.
August 13, 2025Guest Lecture: Lecture series on “Text · Image · Cultural Exchange” by Professor Chen MingChen Ming (Visiting Professor, Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong; Director and Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University). August 13, 20, and 22, 2025. University of Hong Kong.
September 4, 2025Guest Lecture: Toward an Inquiry into the Circulation of Sanskrit Manuscripts within Indian Monastic Communities in the Medieval PeriodKazuo Kano (Komazawa University). September 4, 2025, 5 pm. In-person lecture at University of California, Berkeley.