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A reception for alumni and friends of Asbury Theological Seminary. This is a come and go reception, with just a brief presentation from faculty and representatives of each skill. A time for fellowship and (re)acquaintance over light refreshments.
Annual reception for authors and friends of Baker Academic & Brazos Press.
Reception for friends and participants attending the 2025 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings.
"Lives of the Buddha" is a new theatrical play composed primarily of excerpts from early, popular Chinese Buddhist texts, transmitted from India, which recount the story of the Buddha and many of his past lives. This work seeks to imagine and create the experience of orally presenting these materials to an audience, perhaps as it might have been some 2000 years ago, before they were even first written down.
By interpreting these scriptures as the written traces of a preexisting oral performance literature, with alternating passages of narration, dialogue, and stage direction, this project also places them among the oldest theatrical writings in existence.
This show will be a staged reading of the play, performed by a group of professional actors, followed by a discussion with the audience.
Written and directed by Alan Wagner.
For more information, and to read the play, visit https://livesofthebuddha.com
#Buddhism #Buddha #hagiography #storytelling #BuddhistStudies #Jataka #Arts #Theater
Sugarcane, an Oscar-nominated documentary, is “an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning” with the destructive policies and practices of assimilation. Sugarcane illuminates the heartbreak and beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding strength to survive. The Indigenous ways of knowing and living portrayed are a beautiful, resilient, and love-filled way of life, persisting despite the injustices of colonialism spanning generations. Sugarcane conveys how the past lives on in the present for the survivors of residential schools and their descendants yet provides hope for the future. Sugarcane is a story of harm, healing, and a journey towards the regaining of personal and collective freedom. Named after the Sugarcane Reserve in British Columbia, and engaging with the history of the nearby Mission school, the realities revealed are not uncommon to the experience of Indigenous Peoples elsewhere in North America. (https://sugarcanefilm.com/)
We invite you to our 30th Anniversary Reception—a night filled with drinks, tapas, music by our DJ, and delicious desserts. Join us for a special evening as the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion celebrates 30 years of supporting faculty in religious studies and theological education! Connect with past, present, and future participants of Wabash Center workshops, colloquies, consultations, and grants. Enjoy an evening of fellowship, networking, and celebration with colleagues and friends in the field. Let’s come together to honor three decades of transformative teaching and learning—we can’t wait to celebrate with you
The Enoch Seminar is an international group of specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christianity, Rabbinic, and Islamic Origins. Our group gathers regularly online and in person to discuss topics of interest and new research. All are invited to join us at this reception to learn about our recent and future activities.
Join us at our annual reception to honor our brilliant authors, unveil our newest publications, and explore the promising horizons of academic publishing!
