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SUMMARY:Frederik Schröer\, Feeling and Failing Together: Emotions and Mult
 ispecies Entanglements in (Early) South Asian Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our next lecture in our ongoing Buddhism and
  Posthumanism series!\n\nRegister on Zoom for this meeting. After register
 ing\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
  joining the meeting. \n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nIn recent years\, both the role 
 of emotions in Buddhist teachings and practices as well as Buddhist positi
 ons towards more-than-human actors and environmental concerns have come to
  the forefront of academic and nonacademic debates. What unites both conce
 rns is often a “how to” approach—“How to Feel” (Heim\, 2025)\, o
 r how “environmental” Buddhism(s) was/were (Elverskog\, 2020)\, and ho
 w to use Buddhist teaching and practice to face the concerns of the curren
 t climate crisis. This talk turns the “how to” approach on its head by
  focusing instead on the productivity of moments of conflict\, crisis\, an
 d failure\, and on how they are felt. Often\, it is when things don’t wo
 rk out as intended that the underlying mechanics become most visible. Acro
 ss the Buddhist Pali Canon\, in suttas and jatakas\, such moments are cruc
 ial in putting doctrine and its practical application to the test. At the 
 same time\, it is precisely here that the texts most explicitly reveal an 
 inherently emotional/affective concern with multiperspectivism in the enco
 unters between humans\, nonhuman animals\, and other living beings\, inclu
 ding plants and spirits. This talk\, therefore\, focuses on the constructi
 ve energies of moments of crisis and failure to develop reflections about 
 drawing on the early South Asian Buddhist texts as epistemological inspira
 tion for historical research\, bringing the canon into dialogue with curre
 nt approaches in the study of emotion\, new materialism\, and posthumanism
 .\n\nBIO\nFrederik Schröer is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department
  of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin\, Germany. With a backgrou
 nd in South Asian and Tibetan Buddhist studies (University of Vienna\, Aus
 tria)\, his work sits at the intersection between environmental history an
 d the transnational history of South Asian Buddhism in the colonial period
 . Having completed his PhD on the role of emotions in the early Tibetan di
 aspora in India at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Center for the Hi
 story of Emotions\, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin\, hi
 s current project focuses on human-environment relations among Buddhist re
 formers in late 19th and early 20th-century British India. Conceptually\, 
 Frederik explores the role of emotions in human-nonhuman entanglements in 
 dialogue with early Buddhist epistemologies and posthumanism/new materiali
 sm. He is an editor of the journal Contributions to the History of Concept
 s.\n\n\n\n&nbsp\;
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LOCATION:Online\, Online only\, Toronto\, Canada
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