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Beginning from the premise that Buddhist bhikṣuṇī-vinaya traditions are in some imperfect and/or indirect way an archive of monastic women’s lives, in this presentation I provide a basic overview of themes of health and healing in those traditions (especially the Mahāsāṅghika-lokottaravādin bhiksuṇī-vinaya).

In this lecture, Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Afghanistan, will speak about key elements of the current human rights crisis in Afghanistan under the Taliban Mark II.

In this Inaugural lecture, Professor Marloes Janson and Professor Jieyu Liu will be presenting lectures on "Rewriting Africa's Narrative" and "Doing Intimacy: Family Life and Social Change in China" respectively.

In these lectures, two distinctive understandings of Wisdom, from the Zoroastrian and the Sufi Muslim traditions respectively, are discussed in juxtaposition, in a study of two of the most famous examples of their religious literature.