Faculty News

As part of Faculty and Staff Appreciation Night on Wednesday, Feb. 28, Professor Sam Boyd was honored and brought out on the court during the men's basketball game. It was a really exciting night spent with family. We hope you enjoy these fun pictures! With March Madness right around the...

Their session “The Lives and Afterlives of Buddhist Masters” delves into the lives of Yeshe Tsogyal and Milarepa and their ongoing influence and presence in ritual, pilgrimage, visual arts and more. Visit https://jlflitfest.org/colorado for the schedule and to register. JLF Colorado is an annual literary festival held at the Boulder...

The Leiden Arabic Humanities and Islamic Thought Blog features a post by Aun Hasan Ali about his recent contribution (co-authored with Hadi Qazwini and Yusuf Ünal) to Shiʿite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries . "Our contribution to the volume comes from a commentary titled al-Wāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfiya by the...

Brian Catlos was selected as Faculty Awardee for his work on Mediterranean Studies and with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group (since 2011) and the Mediterranean Seminar , both of which he founded and directs (the latter with Sharon Kinoshita of UCSC). The CU Mediterranean Studies group is an interdisciplinary collaborative...

Loriliai Biernacki’s The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta ’s Panentheism and New Materialism argues that we can use the philosophical writing of the 11th century Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta on the nature of wonder and subjectivity to help make sense of our current complex world. Abhinavagupta’s insights on the nature of self...

Dr. Holly Gayley hosted the Kayden Translation Symposium on a sunny fall afternoon at the Koenig Alumni Center. The symposium convened to discuss translations of Tibetan literary works by, about, and for Buddhist women. The seminar was made possible through the 2021 Kayden Translation Award for Inseparable Across Lifetimes: The...