Event
CEAS is partnering with the Freedom Crossing Institute on an East Asia religious studies-focused film festival throughout the month of November! Due to this co-sponsorship, University of Pennsylvania students, faculty, and staff can contact CEAS for a discount code.
Week 2 events include:
11/13 (Fri) 7pm EST - 11/14 (Sat) 7pm EST:
Dialogue with Beliefs (與信仰對話)
11/13 (Fri) 9pm EST - 11/14 (Sat) 9pm EST:
Tsunma, Tsunma My Summer with the Female Monastics of the Himalaya (尊瑪、尊瑪：我和她們在喜馬拉雅的夏天)
11/14 (Sat) 9am EST Workshop: Global Buddhist Women: Liberation Stories Crossing the Himalayas, Taiwan, US, and the World. Zoom registration link
We will co-host a workshop with the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. We have the honor to welcome Dr. Christie Chang (former Chair of Sakyadhita and Chair of the 17th Sakyadhita International Conference (Dec. 2021) in Sarawak, Malaysia), to lead the discussion alongside Minghua Hsiao (Curator, 2020 Freedom Crossing Film Festival). They will be joined by the Venerable Geshemas Chopa Tenzin Lhadron and Tenzin Deden (Jamyang Choling Institute in Dharamsala, India), the Venerable Tsunma Tenzin Dasel (Tashi Gatsel Ling in Maine, USA), and Darcie Price-Wallace (Doctoral Candidate, Buddhist Studies, Northwestern University).
11/14 (Sat) 7pm EST - 11/15 (Sun) 7pm EST:
US PREMIERE: The Shepherds (牧者)
11/14 (Sat) 9pm EST - 11/15 (Sun) 9pm EST:
US PREMIERE
The Path of Destiny (不得不上路)
11/15 (Sun) 9am EST Workshop: Crossing Faiths and Religion: Dialogue for 21st Century Democracy Zoom registration link
The 2020 Freedom Crossing Film Festival (FCFF) is dedicated to Prof Swidler’s grand vision and lifelong work for global religious dialogue. We will collaborate with the Arlene and Leonard Swidler Foundation and have the honor of hosting Prof Leonard Swidler (founder, Dialogue Institute and Journal of Ecumenical Studies) to host a virtual lecutre on Dialogue and Democracy and dialogue with Minghua Hsiao (Curator, 2020 FCFF). We also welcome directors Chun-Kai YANG (The Path of Destiny) and Elvis LU (The Shepherds) to the dialogue to consider practical applications to religious tensions in society.
More details about the program from the organizers:
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Freedom Crossing Institute’s core mission is to promote the value of freedom, through dialogue that crosses human boundaries and limitations. These include personal, social, national, cultural, historical, and religious borders. We believe that dialogue expands our vision to understand people from different backgrounds and build an awareness of shared humanity, which is a key foundation of liberal democracy.
Through the 2020 Freedom Crossing Film Festival, we aim to trace the thread of common humanity across different civilizations and celebrate the diversity of storytelling in Asia. Our films represent eight languages, eight countries, and 16 forms of art and ritual for religious expression. This wide spectrum of faiths and human experience invites many opportunities for dialogue and offers insights into building freedom of religion in both Eastern and Western civilizations.
We are also holding three weekend workshops with leading thinkers and religious practitioners to help frame the global context of these films and encourage dialogue and reflection toward liberty through four themes: Crossing Borders and Identity, Crossing Faith and Religion, Crossing Life and Death, and Crossing History and Memory.
On week 3 (11.20-11.22, Crossing Life and Death), we will co-host a workshop with the Kwan Um School of Zen. We have the honor to welcome Dr. Judy Roitman (Zen Master Bon Hae, poet and Fellow, American Mathematical Society) and Dr. Stanley Lombardo (Zen Master Hae Kwang, translator and Prof. Emeritus of Classics, University of Kansas) to reflect on life and death. (Sat Nov 21st, 7pm Eastern)
Get tickets for the events at the festival website. University of Pennsylvania students, faculty, and staff can contact CEAS for a discount code.