Yogic metaethics: what it is and why it matters Dr Brett Parris will discuss the metaethical positions of the major yogic traditions and how these cohere with modern concerns and values.
Professor Rebecca Gould Rebecca Ruth Gould is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, SOAS University of London. Her creative and critical practice explores the poetics of politics and the politics of poetry.
Meritorious Collecting and Curating in Buddhist Southeast Asia When is a temple a museum? How is a museum in the temple? I explore these and other questions through the lens of Buddhist merit-making. This focus on Shan temples in Myanmar and northern Thailand, invites responses to the notion that localised practices of collecting and curating, challenge conventional narratives about Shan Buddhist culture in Southeast Asia.
'Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51' An in-depth conversation with Mattin Biglari about his book, 'Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran: Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933–51'.