Name: Kate Crosby
University of Oxford
https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/professor-kate-crosby

Events this person is hosting:

Monday 4 December 2023

Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity
Date: 4 December 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Oriental Institute, 11 Pusey Lane OX1 2LE
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Monday 24 June 2024

Meditation and Abhidhamma
Date: 24 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2025

Remorse-Proneness, AI Alignment, and Artificial Moral Psychology
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025

Panel discussion on Buddhism and AI
Date: 28 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

The Śyāma Jātaka in the Dazu Rock Carvings
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Li Ling (Sichuan University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Monday 4 December 2023

Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity
Date: 4 December 2023, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Oriental Institute, 11 Pusey Lane OX1 2LE
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 June 2024

Translating Medicine Across Cultures: The Divergent Strategies of An Shigao and Dharmarakṣa in Introducing Indian Medical Concepts to China
Date: 21 June 2024, 11:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Lu Lu (Zhejiang University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Cathy Cantwell (University of Oxford)

“Best of Sages” or “Seventh of Sages”: Isi-sattama in Pāli Atthakathā
Date: 21 June 2024, 13:30 - 13:50
Speaker : Qingniao Li (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

A commentary as Buddhavacana: The composition of the Vinayavibhaṅga and its interplay with the Sūtra-Piṭaka
Date: 21 June 2024, 13:50 - 14:10
Speaker : Ven. Wanyu Zhang (Farong) (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

In Praise of the Eminent Monk: Remarks on the Life and Works of Dharmarakṣa 竺法護 through the Study of Colophons
Date: 21 June 2024, 14:10 - 14:30
Speaker : Yunyao Zhai (Harvard University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

Traces and Fragments of Early Prajñāpāramitā Exegesis in Anonymous Quotations in the Da zhidu lun (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa)
Date: 21 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Ven. Tuan Huynh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Robert Mayer (University of Oxford)

Inviting the Perfection of Wisdom to Tibet: Translation, Circulation, and the Role of Inventories
Date: 21 June 2024, 15:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Camillo Formigatti (University of Oxford)

Atiśa’s Commentary on the “Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines”
Date: 21 June 2024, 16:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Marek Mejor (University of Warsaw)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Camillo Formigatti (University of Oxford)

Not so adamantine after all: the influence of commentary on the textual development of the Vajracchedikā
Date: 21 June 2024, 16:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Paul Harrison (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Camillo Formigatti (University of Oxford)

Stefano Zacchetti’s Last (Posthumous) Monograph, its Significance, and Its Place in his Scholarship
Date: 21 June 2024, 18:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Michael Radich (Heidelberg University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)

The Unpublished Scholarly Legacy of Stefano Zacchetti: a Few Remarks
Date: 21 June 2024, 18:45 - 19:15
Speaker : Jonathan Silk (Leiden University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)

The translators of Stefano’s Dazhidulun Monograph into Chinese
Date: 21 June 2024, 19:15 - 19:45
Speaker s: Chen Jinhua (University of British Columbia), Zhao You (Peking University), Lu Lu (Zhejiang University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)

Saturday 22 June 2024

Preliminary Exploration of Texts and Annotations in Various Languages of The Sarasvatī-parivarta from The Suvarṇaprabhāsottama-sūtra《金光明經·大辯才天女品》諸語種文本及其注疏初探
Date: 22 June 2024, 9:00 - 09:30
Speaker : Ming Chen (Peking University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Matthew Orsborn (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts)

Hešeri Rushan and the Tuṣita (Doushuai 兜率) Heaven School 赫舍里如山與“兜率宗”
Date: 22 June 2024, 9:30 - 10:00
Speaker : Jidong Chen (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Matthew Orsborn (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts)

The Specific Usages, Characteristics, and Sources of "All" in Early Chinese Translations of Buddhist Scriptures 早期汉译佛经“一切”的特殊用法、性质及其来源
Date: 22 June 2024, 10:00 - 10:30
Speaker : Yichen Meng
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Matthew Orsborn (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts)

Death and Rebirth in the Third-Century State of Wu 吳: transmigration described in the Liudu ji jing 六度集經 (T152)
Date: 22 June 2024, 11:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Janine Nichol (Independent scholar)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Marta Sernesi (École Pratique des Hautes Études — PSL)

The Influence of Indic Linguistics on the Formation and Interpretation of the Chinese Buddhist Lexicon
Date: 22 June 2024, 11:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Marta Sernesi (École Pratique des Hautes Études — PSL)

Translation and Commentary at the Dawn of Chinese Buddhism: New Light from An Shigao’s Yin chi ru jing and its Commentary
Date: 22 June 2024, 12:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Eric Greene (Yale University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Marta Sernesi (École Pratique des Hautes Études — PSL)

A Five Dynasties Manuscript in relation to Tang Buddhist culture: A Study of S.3728 from the British Library
Date: 22 June 2024, 13:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Daoist Gods Explaining Buddhist Texts: Buddhist Exegesis through Spirit-Writing in Qing China
Date: 22 June 2024, 14:00 - 14:30
Speaker : Qijun Zheng (École Pratique des Hautes Études - Université PSL)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Jifa 吉法 – Variations of Maṅgala in Chinese Buddhist Writing
Date: 22 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Zhao You (Peking University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Francesca Tarocco (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

A Gāndhārī exegetical text corresponding to part of the *Āryavasumitrabodhisattvasaṃgītiśāstra
Date: 22 June 2024, 15:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Francesco Barchi (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo)

Buddhist Homiletics as Social Commentary
Date: 22 June 2024, 16:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Péter-Dániel Szántó (ELTE Budapest)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo)

The special dead and the living virtuosi: religious ideals in the Deccan in the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism
Date: 22 June 2024, 16:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Vincent Tournier (École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO))
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Norihisa Baba (University of Tokyo)

The Scripture in Forty-two Sections (Sishier zhang jing 四十二章經, T784): Reconsidering an Enigmatic Text
Date: 22 June 2024, 17:45 - 18:45
Speaker : Jan Nattier (University of California at Berkeley)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: SCR Dining Room
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 June 2024

Meditation and Abhidhamma
Date: 24 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2025

Great Compassion in Art: The Guanyin Mural of Tang Dynasty Dunhuang
Date: 3 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Irene Lok (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 February 2025

The Māṇavikā Chapter in the Uttaragrantha of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya
Date: 10 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Hyebin Lee (Norwegian Institute of Philology)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1. Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

Dharma Without Borders How Tzu Chi Created a “Pure Land on Earth” in the Middle East
Date: 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Stefania Travagnin (SOAS), Emma Tomalin (University of Leeds)
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025

Remorse-Proneness, AI Alignment, and Artificial Moral Psychology
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025

Panel discussion on Buddhism and AI
Date: 28 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 May 2025

Recovering Sayagyi U Ba Khin: Globalizing Vipassanā from a Post-nuclear Rangoon
Date: 5 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Daniel M. Stuart (University of Hamburg)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song: Medieval Traditions in Modern Transmission
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Stephen Ithel Duran (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Seekers of Truth: The Life and Deeds of The South Asian Tradition of Etymology
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University (SHNU))
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Abhidhamma as Oral Text, the Mind as Oral Text
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Eviatar Shulman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to China
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Zhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Between Class and Dharma: Transnational Buddhism in Britain
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Caroline Starkey (University of Leeds)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

The Śyāma Jātaka in the Dazu Rock Carvings
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Li Ling (Sichuan University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)