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URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/rohingya-peril/
SUMMARY:Rohingya in Peril: Buddhist/Muslim tensions in Myanmar and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in depth discussion of the current situation in 
 Burma/Myanmar\, featuring three panelists and a discussion. This is the se
 cond event in our series\, Rohingya in Peril\, co-sponsored with the Asia
 n Institute. This workshop features three 20-minute presentations by our p
 anelists\, followed by a discussion among the panelists\, followed by a Q&
 amp\;A period with the audience. Register for this workshop on Eventbrite.
 \n\nJohn Holt will discuss what contemporary Rohingya political leaders in
  Yangon and Sittwe are saying about the current crisis\, and what progress
 ive monks in Mandalay see to be a way forward. He may also consider a comp
 arative perspective on Buddhist/Muslim tensions in Sri Lanka and/or Thaila
 nd.\n\nBénédicte Brac de la Perrière will consider the re-definition of
  monastic roles in the transitional Burma/Myanmar. She will focus on a new
  claim by a range of monks for  responsibility in preserving Buddhist nat
 ional identity in this context\, and the rise of an extreme nationalist Bu
 ddhism.\n\nJuliane Schober will contextualize the anti-Rohingya violence h
 istorically in terms of an extended anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar\, and
  show how anti-Muslim sentiments have informed the project of the state fo
 r the past century. Specifically\, her presentation will look at various r
 egisters (ethnicity\, gender and law) through which prejudice have been es
 tablished. She will also discuss why\, in their current configuration\, th
 ese social developments  threaten an emerging vision of belonging to a ne
 w future for Myanmar that is multi-ethnic and multi-religious.\n\n&nbsp\;\
 nPanelists’ Biographies\nBénédicte Brac de la Perrière a researcher w
 ith the National Center of Scientific Research and is the current Director
  of the Center of Southeast Asia Studies in Paris.\n\nJohn Holt has taught
  at Bowdoin College in Maine since 1978. He teaches courses about Asian re
 ligious traditions\, especially Hinduism and Buddhism\, as well as courses
  on theoretical approaches to the study of religion. He has received numer
 ous research awards\, including four fellowships from the National Endowme
 nt of the Humanities\, two senior fellowships from the Fulbright Program\,
  as well as other national research awards from the American Council of Le
 arned Societies\, the Social Science Research Council\, and the Asian Cult
 ural Council. He has been an editor of Religious Studies Review and was el
 ected as a fellow to the American Society for the Study of Religion in 199
 5. He is the author of many influential works\, including Theravada Tradit
 ions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lank
 a (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (2017)\; Buddhist Extremists and M
 uslim Minorities: Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka  (NY: Oxfo
 rd U. Press\, 2016)\; Spirits of the Place: Buddhism and Lao Religious Cul
 ture (HI: University of Hawaii Press\, 2009).\n\nJuliane Schober is Direct
 or of the Center for Asian Research and Professor of Religious Studies at 
 Arizona State University where she also directed the graduate program in R
 eligious Studies (2009–2012) and developed a doctoral track in the Anthr
 opology of Religion. She is an anthropologist of religion who works on The
 ravada Buddhist practice in Southeast Asia\, especially Burma/Myanmar. In 
 2013\, Juliane participated in the first IAPP delegation of U.S. universit
 ies to Myanmar\, organized by the International Institute of Education. Sh
 e has held leadership positions in the Association for Asian Studies\, the
  American Academy of Religion\, the American Anthropological Association\,
  and serves on various editorial boards. Also in 2013\, Juliane founded th
 e Theravada Studies Group\, an academic organization affiliated with the A
 ssociation for Asian Studies. The group promotes comparative and scholarly
  exchanges among social scientists and humanists who work on aspects of Th
 eravada Buddhism in India\, Sri Lanka\, Nepal\, Burma\, Thailand\, Laos\, 
 Cambodia\, Vietnam\, and Southwest China and globally though pilgrimage an
 d diaspora networks. Her most recent book\, Modern Buddhist Conjunctures i
 n Myanmar: Cultural Narratives\, Colonial Legacies and Civil Society\, was
  published in 2011 (University of Hawai’i Press).
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