THIS IS A PAST EVENT.
A public lecture by Dr. David Germano.
David Germano teaches in the Department of Religious Studies, where he has advised many doctoral students since 1992. Germano is co-director of the Tibet Center (www.uvatibetcenter.org) and director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (www.shanti.virginia.edu) at the University of Virginia. He also is the editor of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, the official journal of the main international organization of Tibetan Studies, and is the founder and director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL,www.thlib.org), the largest international initiative using digital technology to facilitate collaboration in Tibetan Studies across disciplines.
His personal research interests are focused on the Nyingma and Bön lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, tantric traditions overall, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan historical literature and concerns, particularly from the eighth to fifteenth centuries. He also does research on the contemporary state of Tibetan religion in relationship to China, and non-monastic yogic communities in cultural Tibet, and has broad intellectual interests in international philosophical and literary traditions, including hermeneutics, phenomenology, literary criticism, systems theory, and so forth.
Germano has developed a deep expertise in the use of digital technology to facilitate innovation in teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences. In the context of THL, he has worked extensively on digital initiatives with geographical data, videos, images, dictionaries, gazetteers, and much more in partnership with scores of scholars from diverse disciplines geography, linguistics, history, literary studies, environmental science, film studies, and others.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Porter Byrum Welcome Center
1580 Wake Forest Rd. Winston-Salem, NC 27109