Oxford Treasure Seminar, Third Series is organised by Dr Robert Mayer on Zoom.



This series will consider the interrelated themes of scriptural revelation in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism. Hence we will focus on a comparative study of four overlapping and related models for scriptural revelation:



[1] The reincarnated dharmabhāṇaka of the Mahāyāna sūtras.

[2] Indian Buddhist Yogatantra and Yoginītantra models for scriptural revelation.

[3] The avatāraka siddha of the non-dual Śaivism of Kashmir.

[4] The rNying ma gter ma tradition in Tibet.



The series is envisaged as an open ended conversation between textual scholars, historians, and anthropologists, comparing scriptural revelation in Indian Mahāyāna, Indian tantric Buddhism, specifically Kashmiri/Uḍḍiyāṇa non-dual Śaiva and Buddhist tantrism, and Tibetan gter ma traditions.



The Treasure Seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar series on treasure discovery and scriptural revelation across mainly Asian cultures. Series one and two explored the treasure and revelatory cultures mainly of India, China, and Tibet, considering them individually and comparatively. We also considered comparable traditions across other cultures. The convenors are Anna Sehnalova, Matt Orsborn, Rob Mayer, and Yegor Grebnev. Participants have included Anna Sehnalova, Barend ter Haar, Cathy Cantwell, Catherine Hardie, Charles Stewart, Piers Kelly, Reinier Langelaar, Robert Mayer, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ulrike Roesler, Yegor Grebnev, and others. Most of the presentations so far have issued into publications. We are grateful to Merton College for the facilities and support received for the first series, and to Wolfson College’s Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre for the funding, facilities, and support we received for the second series. We are grateful to the Oriental Studies Faculty for enabling the third series.



To join Zoom Meeting use:

Meeting ID: 852 5174 7964

Passcode: 310419
 

Oxford Treasure Seminar, Third Series is organised by Dr Robert Mayer on Zoom.



This series will consider the interrelated themes of scriptural revelation in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism. Hence we will focus on a comparative study of four overlapping and related models for scriptural revelation:



[1] The reincarnated dharmabhāṇaka of the Mahāyāna sūtras.

[2] Indian Buddhist Yogatantra and Yoginītantra models for scriptural revelation.

[3] The avatāraka siddha of the non-dual Śaivism of Kashmir.

[4] The rNying ma gter ma tradition in Tibet.



The series is envisaged as an open ended conversation between textual scholars, historians, and anthropologists, comparing scriptural revelation in Indian Mahāyāna, Indian tantric Buddhism, specifically Kashmiri/Uḍḍiyāṇa non-dual Śaiva and Buddhist tantrism, and Tibetan gter ma traditions.



The Treasure Seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar series on treasure discovery and scriptural revelation across mainly Asian cultures. Series one and two explored the treasure and revelatory cultures mainly of India, China, and Tibet, considering them individually and comparatively. We also considered comparable traditions across other cultures. The convenors are Anna Sehnalova, Matt Orsborn, Rob Mayer, and Yegor Grebnev. Participants have included Anna Sehnalova, Barend ter Haar, Cathy Cantwell, Catherine Hardie, Charles Stewart, Piers Kelly, Reinier Langelaar, Robert Mayer, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ulrike Roesler, Yegor Grebnev, and others. Most of the presentations so far have issued into publications. We are grateful to Merton College for the facilities and support received for the first series, and to Wolfson College’s Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre for the funding, facilities, and support we received for the second series. We are grateful to the Oriental Studies Faculty for enabling the third series.



Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85251747964?pwd=WHFDQXdJUE81RUpTYTYxem1lZktjdz09



Meeting ID: 852 5174 7964

Passcode: 310419
 

Oxford Treasure Seminar, Third Series is organised by Dr Robert Mayer on Zoom.



This series will consider the interrelated themes of scriptural revelation in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism. Hence we will focus on a comparative study of four overlapping and related models for scriptural revelation:



[1] The reincarnated dharmabhāṇaka of the Mahāyāna sūtras.

[2] Indian Buddhist Yogatantra and Yoginītantra models for scriptural revelation.

[3] The avatāraka siddha of the non-dual Śaivism of Kashmir.

[4] The rNying ma gter ma tradition in Tibet.



The series is envisaged as an open ended conversation between textual scholars, historians, and anthropologists, comparing scriptural revelation in Indian Mahāyāna, Indian tantric Buddhism, specifically Kashmiri/Uḍḍiyāṇa non-dual Śaiva and Buddhist tantrism, and Tibetan gter ma traditions.



The Treasure Seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar series on treasure discovery and scriptural revelation across mainly Asian cultures. Series one and two explored the treasure and revelatory cultures mainly of India, China, and Tibet, considering them individually and comparatively. We also considered comparable traditions across other cultures. The convenors are Anna Sehnalova, Matt Orsborn, Rob Mayer, and Yegor Grebnev. Participants have included Anna Sehnalova, Barend ter Haar, Cathy Cantwell, Catherine Hardie, Charles Stewart, Piers Kelly, Reinier Langelaar, Robert Mayer, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ulrike Roesler, Yegor Grebnev, and others. Most of the presentations so far have issued into publications. We are grateful to Merton College for the facilities and support received for the first series, and to Wolfson College’s Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre for the funding, facilities, and support we received for the second series. We are grateful to the Oriental Studies Faculty for enabling the third series.



Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85251747964?pwd=WHFDQXdJUE81RUpTYTYxem1lZktjdz09



Meeting ID: 852 5174 7964

Passcode: 310419
 

Oxford Treasure Seminar, Third Series is organised by Dr Robert Mayer on Zoom.



This series will consider the interrelated themes of scriptural revelation in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhism. Hence we will focus on a comparative study of four overlapping and related models for scriptural revelation:



[1] The reincarnated dharmabhāṇaka of the Mahāyāna sūtras.

[2] Indian Buddhist Yogatantra and Yoginītantra models for scriptural revelation.

[3] The avatāraka siddha of the non-dual Śaivism of Kashmir.

[4] The rNying ma gter ma tradition in Tibet.



The series is envisaged as an open ended conversation between textual scholars, historians, and anthropologists, comparing scriptural revelation in Indian Mahāyāna, Indian tantric Buddhism, specifically Kashmiri/Uḍḍiyāṇa non-dual Śaiva and Buddhist tantrism, and Tibetan gter ma traditions.



The Treasure Seminar is an interdisciplinary seminar series on treasure discovery and scriptural revelation across mainly Asian cultures. Series one and two explored the treasure and revelatory cultures mainly of India, China, and Tibet, considering them individually and comparatively. We also considered comparable traditions across other cultures. The convenors are Anna Sehnalova, Matt Orsborn, Rob Mayer, and Yegor Grebnev. Participants have included Anna Sehnalova, Barend ter Haar, Cathy Cantwell, Catherine Hardie, Charles Stewart, Piers Kelly, Reinier Langelaar, Robert Mayer, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Ulrike Roesler, Yegor Grebnev, and others. Most of the presentations so far have issued into publications. We are grateful to Merton College for the facilities and support received for the first series, and to Wolfson College’s Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre for the funding, facilities, and support we received for the second series. We are grateful to the Oriental Studies Faculty for enabling the third series.



Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85251747964?pwd=WHFDQXdJUE81RUpTYTYxem1lZktjdz09



Meeting ID: 852 5174 7964

Passcode: 310419
 

Artist-researcher Susan Schuppli will discuss her work, which explores the ways in which non-human witnesses such as materials and objects can enter public discourse and testify to historical events, especially those involving political violence, ethnic conflict and war crimes. Schuppli’s work assumes many different modes of communication, from legal analysis and public advocacy to theoretical reflection and creative exploration. Her current artistic projects expand these legal investigations to examine how environmental systems and transformations due to global warming are also generating new forms of evidence, creating, in effect, a planetary archive of material witnesses.

Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, and is Board Chair of Forensic Architecture. Her artistic work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. Schuppli’s monograph Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence was published by MIT Press, 2020. https://susanschuppli.com

Carey Young is a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson and was Wolfson’s Creative Arts Fellow 2018 – 21. She will have a solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford in 2023. www.careyyoung.com

To register please contact Luisa Summers, Arts Administrator at luisa.summers@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by 12noon on Thursday 3 March 2022. Details to join the event on Zoom will be sent to you by email.
 

This weekly creative writing workshop open to all is hosted by our Creative Arts Fellow Tom Brennan. Join in to explore new ways of thinking, no matter what your academic discipline.

Whether you have ambitions to work in creative fields, or are just interested in writing for fun, the creative writing group is a good place to find support and structure. You'll meet once a week and begin your work together with guided writing tasks. As a theatre practitioner, Tom's facilitation might include the language of drama, but writers who are interested in any form of creative writing are entirely welcome. It will be an easy-going space to stretch creative muscles and to develop together.

Each session is drop-in. To obtain the link to the Zoom meeting, please email Tom Brennan directly on thomas.brennan@wolfson.ox.ac.uk



About Tom:

Tom is an award-winning theatre director, playwright, and occasional actor. His company, The Wardrobe Ensemble is an associate company of Complicite and Shoreditch Town Hall. Tom’s work with the company has been performed at The National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Soho Theatre, and Bristol Old Vic among many other venues across The UK and USA. He was also a resident director at the Almeida Theatre on the productions of Mike Bartlett’s ‘Albion’ and Anne Washburn’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

Tom is also an associate artist of the North Wall Arts Centre here in Summertown, Oxford.

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Virtual Art Class.

Tuesday 8 February 2022 at 6pm via Zoom.



An online live charcoal drawing demonstration with Stacey Gledhill.



To register please contact buki.fatona@wolfson.ox.ac.uk from your Wolfson email address.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.

Two Day International Conference on Counting Caste: Breaking the Caste Census Deadlock

Saturday, 5 February 2022 - 10:00am to Sunday, 6 February 2022 - 5:00pm

The conference hopes to discuss how a caste census in India could take forward conversations on representation, access to resources, wealth distribution, and participation of marginalised caste groups in governance and electoral politics. Through six panels with notable names in academia, politics, activism, and performance, the conference aims to raise questions about how the “majority” and “minority” have been constructed in Indian politics, academic writing, and popular culture. It is being organised at the University of Oxford by the South Asia Alternative Forum (St Antony’s College), with the support of the department of Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, The Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, the South Asia Research Cluster (Wolfson College) and the South Asian Society.

Full Schedule below:

Saturday 5 February

Keynote Speaker : Sonajhariya Minz (Vice Chancellor, Sido Kanhu Murmu University)
10 am GMT | 3.30 pm IST

Panel 1 | Rethinking Majority and Minority in India: The Question of Caste Census
10.30 am to 12.30 pm GMT | 4.00 to 6 pm IST
Dilip Mandal - Public Intellectual, Former Managing Editor of India Today
Kanimozhi Karunanidhi - Member of Parliament
Satish Deshpande - Professor, Delhi University
Grace Banu - Activist, Trans Rights Now Collective
Moderator: Asha Singh - Assistant Professor, CSSSC.

Panel 2 | Census and the colonial construction of Hinduism
1 pm to 2.30 pm GMT | 6.30 pm to 8 pm IST
Gopal Guru - Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Retired Professor, JNU
Anupama Rao - Associate Professor History, Columbia University.
Carmel Christy - Assistant Professor, Delhi University
Moderator: Nidhin Donald - Independent Researcher

Rap Performance: Arivu
3 pm GMT | 8.30 pm IST

Panel 3 | Whose Culture is it?: Decoding Caste within 'Popular' Culture
3.30 to 5 pm GMT | 9 pm to 10.30 pm IST
Pa Ranjith - Filmmaker
Sylvia Karpagam - Doctor and Public Health researcher
Nrithya Pillai - Hereditary Bharatnatyam dancer
Meena Kotwal - Editor, Mooknayak
Moderator: Vijeta Kumar - Lecturer, St Joseph's College, Bangalore

Sunday 6 February

Keynote Speaker: Bharat Patankar - Activist, President Shramik Mukti Dal
10 am GMT | 3.30 pm IST

Panel 4 | From Colonial to the Everyday: Hindutva’s Caste Ambiguity
10.30 am to 12 pm GMT | 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm IST
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd - Retired director, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
Sagar - Staff writer, Caravan Magazine
Christophe Jaffrelot - Professor, Sciences Po
Moderator: Nandini Sundar - Professor, Delhi School of Economics

Panel 5 | Caste Census and the 'Muslim Question'
1 to 2.30 pm GMT | 6.30 to 8.00 pm IST
Khalid Anis Ansari - Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
Srinivas Goli - Assistant Professor, JNU
Ali Anwar - Journalist, Former Member of Parliament
Faisal Devji - Professor, University of Oxford
Moderator: Shireen Azam - DPhil researcher, University of Oxford

Panel 6 | Race and Caste: How do Oppressive Systems Count?
3.30 pm to 5 pm GMT | 9 to 10.30 pm IST
Ellis Monk - Associate Professor, Harvard University
Meena Dhanda - Professor, University of Wolverhampton
Kamala Visweswaran - Professor, Rice University
Moderator: Suraj Yengde - Senior Fellow, Harvard University

This new weekly creative writing workshop open to all is hosted by our Creative Arts Fellow Tom Brennan. Join in to explore new ways of thinking, no matter what your academic discipline.

Whether you have ambitions to work in creative fields, or are just interested in writing for fun, the creative writing group is a good place to find support and structure. You'll meet once a week and begin your work together with guided writing tasks. As a theatre practitioner, Tom's facilitation might include the language of drama, but writers who are interested in any form of creative writing are entirely welcome. It will be an easy-going space to stretch creative muscles and to develop together.

Each session is drop-in.

About Tom:

Tom is an award-winning theatre director, playwright, and occasional actor. His company, The Wardrobe Ensemble is an associate company of Complicite and Shoreditch Town Hall. Tom’s work with the company has been performed at The National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Soho Theatre, and Bristol Old Vic among many other venues across The UK and USA. He was also a resident director at the Almeida Theatre on the productions of Mike Bartlett’s ‘Albion’ and Anne Washburn’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

Tom is also an associate artist of the North Wall Arts Centre here in Summertown, Oxford.

To obtain the link to the Zoom meeting, please email Tom Brennan directly on thomas.brennan@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Professor Charters will talk about using archives for her research into disease, and her use of historical evidence, particularly in the case of epidemics.



Wolfson College Fellow Erica Charters is Professor of the Global History of Medicine, Director of both the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, and of the Oxford Centre for Global History.



Prof Charters’ Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of British Armed Forces during the Seven Years War (Chicago, 2014) was awarded the AAHM 2016 George Rosen Prize and the SAHR 2014 Best First Book. She coordinates the Oxford and Empire project, is Senior Vice President of the Navy Records Society and Executive Committee Member of the Society for the History of War.

She is now coordinating a multidisciplinary project on How Epidemics End.



This talk will be via Zoom.

For the link, please contact archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by 12 noon on Tues. 1 February.

Download Zoom here: https://zoom.us/download

Enquiries: College Archivist Liz Baird archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk



Image: Colyton parish burial record Nov. 1646. Devon Record Office, UK, ref DHC 3483A/PR/1).

Left margin note reads: ‘here ye sickness ended.’ By kind permission of the Rector and PCC of Colyton.