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SUMMARY:Lecture:Julia Cassaniti
DESCRIPTION:University of Toronto/McMaster University\nNUMATA BUDDHIST STUD
 IES PROGRAM 2017-18\n\nLECTURE: Out of Time: Mindfulness and Temporality i
 n Theravāda Asia\nFRIDAY\, January 26\, 2018\, 3-5 pm\, UTSG\, JHB 317\n\
 nIn this talk I will discuss an ethnographically based research project on
  the mindfulness practices of monks\, psychiatrists\, and lay Buddhists in
  the Theravāda countries of Thailand\, Myanmar\, and Sri Lanka. Drawing f
 rom data collected from over 600 participants I map out some of the ways t
 hat mindfulness\, as understood through its Pali-language root sati\, is a
 ssociated in South and Southeast Asia to psychological processes in ways t
 hat are different from how they are usually understood in Western cultural
  contexts. I focus on what I have called the TAPES of mindfulness: Tempora
 lity\, Affect\, Power\, Ethics\, and Selfhood\, and demonstrate how each s
 uggests new perspectives for thinking about the complicated relationship b
 etween culture and mind. I begin with a case study of a man named Sen stay
 ing at a psychiatric hospital in Chiang Mai\, and through an examination o
 f the meanings that he and his family and friends make of his problems sho
 w some of the connections that local ideas about the mind have to the wide
 r circulation of Buddhism across South and Southeast Asia\, and around the
  world.\n\nDr. JULIA CASSANITI received her PhD from the University of Chi
 cago\, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Medica
 l Anthropology at Washington State University. Her research focus is on th
 e connections between mental processes\, religious ideologies\, and everyd
 ay life a small Buddhist community in Northern Thailand\, where she has be
 en working for the past 15 years. She attends especially to the ways that 
 culturally-variable conceptions of the world affect mental health\, and th
 e results of transnational flows of assumptions about these issues in the 
 lives of local informants. She is the author of Living Buddhism: Mind\, Se
 lf and Emotion in a Thai Community (Cornell University Press\, 2015)\, and
  Universalism Without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture (Univer
 sity of Chicago Press\, 2017). Her upcoming book Remembering the Present: 
 Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia will be published from Cornell University Pre
 ss in the Spring of 2018.\nRelated Reading Group\nHot Hearts\, Cold Hearts
 : Affect and Mental Health in Northern Thai Approaches to Change\nat McMas
 ter (University Hall 122) on Thursday\, January 25\, 4-6pm.
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CATEGORIES:Lecture,Numata Program
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Rm 317\, 170 St George St\, Toronto\
 , ON - Ontario\, M5R2M8\, Canada
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