Nov 3, 2010 7:30-9:00pm
Wednesday, November 3th (7:30-9:00pm) at AA112, University of Toronto, Scarborough.
FREE public lecture. All are welcome.
Please RSVP your attendance to aep@utsc.utoronto.ca.
A FREE shuttle bus service will leave from Hart House Circle at 6pm, and return after the lecture.
What does an immigrant parent feed her child? How does she find health-giving foods that bridge the gap between her own body, nourished under her parents' care, and the resources available to her in a new country?
Under what circumstances do immigrant societies come to grow their own food in a new place? Do they grow a few spices in a home garden, or do some families actually become farmers, negotiating the challenges of unfamiliar climates, soils, markets and regulatory regimes?
The translation and re-production of culture during migration always happens in a specific ecological context. In the immigrant context, pregnant women, new parents and grandparents, growing children, farmers, home gardeners and traditional medical practitioners all create networks around that reproduce and translate the tastes, smells and medical practices of a distant culture at the same time that they create healthy people.
In this talk Dr. William Tuladhar-Douglas will argue that the social practices of agriculture and parenting among immigrant Buddhist families around North America should be considered together. With the help of skilled informants from various communities around Toronto, we will discover that existing support for farmer's markets and near-urban farms, when combined with targeted support for immigrant farmers, leads naturally to the healthy reproduction of immigrant Buddhist societies.
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Friday, November 5th (1-5 pm) and Saturday, November 6th (10am-4pm) at
Miller Lash House, University of Toronto, Scarborough.
A FREE symposium on social practices of place and environment in Buddhist societies.
Space is very limited. Attendance by RSVP only. Please email RSVP to aep@utsc.utoronto.ca.
Taking the form of a lively conversation structured by occasional presentations by a wide range of interested folk: practitioners and priests, ethnographers and textualists, long-time Turtle Island inhabitants and recent immigrants, and perhaps even a few artists.
The purpose of the workshop is to ask several questions:
* what social practices (rituals, forms of speech, architectural genres) were or are there, through which Buddhist communities inhabit and create their landscapes?
* are there particularly Buddhist theories about place and dwelling?
* what material or intellectual projects are apparent among Buddhist communities around the Greater Toronto Area?
* how should Canada's new Buddhist communities learn to inhabit this place?
* what can be learned through conversations between Aboriginal and new Buddhist experts in dwelling practices and rituals?
* are there specific ethical or practical commitments that ought to inform Buddhist communities in North America?
See http://tending.to/garden/projects/tlky/how-is-this-place-buddhist
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Julie Witt
Events Planning & Management Coordinator
Arts & Events Programming
Dept. of Humanities
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, AA-313
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Tel: 416.287.7076
Fax: 416.287.7116
Email: jwitt@utsc.utoronto.ca
Web: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/aep
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