Justin T. McDaniel, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a talk entitled "Affixing Gold to Ghosts: Overlapping Narratives and Intertwined Agencies at a Monastery in Bangkok" on April 8th, 2011, as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar.  See Professor McDaniel's upcoming article in the journal Material Religion (vol. 7, no. 2; to be published summer, 2011).

Jin Park, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University, gave a talk entitled "Zen and Reality: Questioning the Identity of Korean Zen Buddhism" on December 3rd, 2010, as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar.

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Wendi Adamek, external faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (though she will soon be assuming a position at the University of Sydney), gave a talk entitled "Zen and the Environment: It's Not What You Think" on December 2nd, 2010, as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson, assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Williams College, gave a talk entitled "Heretical Anthropology:  Imagined Buddhisms in Early Modern Japan" on November 12th, 2010, as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar.

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  James Robson, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, presented his talk, entitled "Monasteries and Mental Illness: On Some Buddhist Monasteries and their Curious Neighbors in East Asia," on October 14th, 2010, as part of the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar.