BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.4.7.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:92@buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200222T203000 DTSTAMP:20200210T193159Z URL:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/sexual-consent-ethics/ SUMMARY:Did the Buddha Teach Sexual Consent?: Emergent Ethics after Abuse A llegations in an American Insight Organization DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open at https://metoo-in-american-buddhism. eventbrite.ca for third event in our Intersections Between Buddhism &\; Society Public Lecture Series\n"Did the Buddha Teach Sexual Consent?: Eme rgent Ethics after Abuse Allegations in an American Insight Organization"\ nA lecture by Dr. Ann Gleig (Associate Professor of Religious and Cultural Studies\, University of Central Florida)\nand Dr. Amy Langenberg (Associa te Professor of Religious Studies\, Eckerd College)\n\nWith its focus on “spiritual friendship” and democratic organizational structures\, the Insight network has often been promoted as an alternative to the guru-cent ered Buddhist communities that have found themselves most often at the cen ter of abuse scandals.  There was much shock in American Buddhism\, there fore\, when sexual assault allegations were made public in 2018 against No ah Levine\, the founder of Against the Stream (ATS)\, a second-generation Insight community. This talk discusses different community responses to th e allegations\, their significance for understanding contemporary Buddhist attitudes to sexual ethics\, and some of the new community formations tha t have grown out of ATS’s demise. In particular\, it analyzes the relat ionship between Insight responses and classical Buddhist approaches to sex ual ethics. Using ATS as a case study\, it highlights the ways in which th e necessity to respond to abuse is prompting  new receptions\, interpreta tions\, and bypassings of canonical Buddhist teachings in American Buddhis m.\nAnn Gleig is associate professor of religious studies at the Universit y of Central Florida. She is the author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyon d Modernity and co-editor of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism. Amy Paris Langenberg is a specialist in South Asian Bud dhism with a focus on gender\, sexuality\, the body\, and monastic law. Sh e also conducts research on contemporary Buddhist feminisms and contempora ry female Buddhist monasticism. Her monograph\, Birth in Buddhism: The Su ffering Fetus and Female Freedom was published by Routledge in 2017. In a ddition\, she has published articles in the Journal of the American Acade my of Religion\, History of Religions\, Religions\, Religion Compass\, a nd the Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics. Her current project is a coll aborative book on generative responses to sexual abuse in American Buddhis m\, to be co-written with Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida) and pu blished with Yale University Press. She is an Associate Professor of Relig ious Studies at Eckerd College\, where she also teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies\, Animal Studies\, and Environmental Studies programs. Pro fessors Gleig and Langenberg recently received a Henry H. Luce Foundation Award for this research project - read more about this project at https:// www.lionsroar.com/buddhist-scholars-receive-grant-to-document-sexual-abuse -in-american-buddhism/. \n \;\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u ploads/2019/09/annamy.jpg CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Talk LOCATION:Room 208\, Main Activity Hall\, Multi-Faith Centre\, 569 Spadina A ve.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2J7\, Canada GEO:43.6609193;-79.40082849999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=569 Spadina Ave.\, Toronto\ , ON\, M5S 2J7\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Room 208\, Main Activit y Hall\, Multi-Faith Centre:geo:43.6609193,-79.40082849999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR