Apr 25, 2023
On this week's episode, guest host Mutty sits down with Stanford University Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. Trent Walker.
In the episode, Dr. Walker unpacks his lecture titled "Songs of Love and Loss: Crafting Buddhist Poetry In Early Cambodia." He takes us through his journey of learning Khmer,...
Apr 20, 2023
On this week's episode, Francine sits down with Joseph Scalice (link), the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, to unpack his new book The Drama of Dictatorship (link) which examines the period leading up to the declaration of martial law in the Philippines by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972...
Apr 14, 2023
On this week's episode, Francine is joined by guest host Aparajita Majumdar, PhD candidate in History, as they sit down with Dr. Alyssa Paredes from the University of Michigan. Dr. Parades unpacks her Gatty Lecture titled "Plantation Liberalism: Personhood and Property between Philippine Mindanao and the Black...
Apr 14, 2023
On this week's episode, Francine sits down with MK Long, a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, to unpack her research analyzing the (auto)biographies of Burmese Buddhist nuns. These texts come from a 1982 volume of (auto)biographies of the founder and three generations...