Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University
Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL
Description:
Join the Center for Burma Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the School of Art and Design, the Art Museum, and the Department of History at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Lilian Handlin, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Cognitive Aesthetics Media Lab at Harvard University. In this talk, she will discuss the Burmese biography of Buddha.
About the Speaker:
Lilian Handlin is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Cognitive Aesthetics Media Lab (CAMLab) at Harvard University.
Lilian's interests include the history of ideas and social history. She is the author of six books, including George Bancroft, Intellectual as Democrat (New York, Harper and Row, 1984) and Liberty in America, 4 vols., (New York, Harper and Row, 1986–1994), co-authored with Oscar Handlin. Her published articles appeared in the American Scholar, New England Quarterly, Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, and Perspectives in American History.
Lilian's most recent publication is a book chapter, “The King and his Bhagava: The Meanings of Pagan’s Early Theravada,” 103–179, in Peter Skilling et al. eds., How Theravada is Theravada? Exploring Buddhist Identities(Chiang Mai, Thailand, Silkworm Books, 2012).
Registration:
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