Surviving the Law: Legal Advocacy for Survivors and Scholars
This hybrid conference event is designed as an opportunity to connect legal experts, advocates, survivors, and scholars to engage with the opportunities and perils of petitioning cases in the judicial system. It will also include panels of scholars, legal advocates, and survivors sharing their first-hand experiences with navigating the judicial system.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for this hybrid event!
Register HERE
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See DRAFT Schedule HERE.
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Invited Workshop: Tracking Sexual Harm’s Harms
This workshop will host an environment for participants will share and provide feedback on work-in-progress that seeks to trace the harms that are produced by attempts to identify, repair, and eradicate the harms attributed to sexual abuse. The harms we want to think about range from the expansive intrusions and surveillance mandated by sex-offender registries to panics fueled by concerns about “grooming” that shape conversations about education, medical care, and media. These harms are felt by members of racialized groups and those whose sexual practices and gender expressions are conceived as marginal or perverse, or as abusive—to practitioners or broader publics. These harms have taken specific historical forms—from lynchings and incarcerations, to named social events—such as the Lavender Scare and the Satanic Panic. Sexual harm’s harms continue to shape contemporary social and political realities—from QAnon, to anti-trans legislation, to the popularity of Sounds of Freedom. Attendees include: Sahin Acikgoz (UC-Riverside), Kent Brintnall (UNC-Charlotte), Scott DeOrio (Independent Scholar), Emily Horowitz (St. Francis College), Amanda Lucia (UC-Riverside), Kori Pacyniak (UC-Riverside), Erin Runions (Pomona College), J Selke (UC-Riverside), India Thusi (Indiana University).
The Heartwood-Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism
The Heartwood-Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivor’s Voices will be held at Northwestern University in Chicago on October 25th, 2024. This groundbreaking gathering brought together brings together a diverse group of participants to address sexual abuse within Buddhist communities, from a survivor-centered perspective.
Read a write up of the Symposium in Lion’s Roar HERE and in The Shiloh Project HERE
Visit the Heartwood Survivors Program website
Photo Credit: Antonio Terrone
Invited Workshop: Catholicism
This workshop, for 10-12 scholars of sexual abuse in Catholic contexts, will function as a writing workshop where participants will share their work, offer advice on each other’s work, and be given the time, space and encouragement to produce the work. Attendees include: Kent Brintnall (UNC-Charlotte), Peter Cajka (University of Notre Dame), Brian Clites (Case Western Reserve University), Jack Downey (University of Rochester), Marie Griffith (Washington University in St. Louis), Kathleen Holscher (University of New Mexico), Jessica Mesman (https://jessicamesman.com)
Invited Workshop: Survivor-Centered Approaches in Religious Studies
This workshop will be interactive, collaborative, generative, and supportive. Participants will considering two chapters of Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg’s forthcoming book, Sex, Abuse, and Buddhism, and Juliane Hammer will lead a trauma-informed session focused on the experience and fall out for us as scholars doing research on sexual abuse. Attendees include: Ann Gleig (University of Central Florida), Amy Langenberg (Eckerd College), Sara Moslener (Central Michigan University), Sarah Jacoby (Northwestern University), Kali Cape (Georgia State University), Brian Clites (Case Western Reserve University), Marie Griffith (Washington University in St. Louis), Juliane Hammer (UNC-Chapel Hill), Samah Choudhury (Ithaca College).
Invited Workshop: Sexuality and the Archive
This invited workshop brings together scholars who have a research focus on sexuality, gender, history, literature, and law. Attendees include: Sahin Acikgoz (UC-Riverside), Anjali Arondekar (UCSC), Kali Cape (Georgia State University), Amy Langenberg (Eckerd College), Amanda Lucia (UC-Riverside), Ali Mian (University of Florida), Ishita Pande (Queen’s University),
R&SAP Conference: Speaking of Abuse
International Conference on Religion & Sexual Abuse.
Sexual Misconduct and Legal Liability Issues in Buddhist Sanghas
Event recording available HERE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpxqAk60QqWrlqnlVVWr4IvLyv1GtBw5I
Comparative Buddhist Sexual Ethics, Part IV, Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha: Conversations for Healing
“Comparative Buddhist Sexual Ethics”
Sarah Jacoby, James Robson, Kali Cape, Sharon Suh, Jue Liang, Amy Langenberg
Lama Willa Miller (moderator)
September 19, 3:30-5pm EST [Register here.]
Sexual Abuse, Whiteness, and Patriarchy, Part III, Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha: Conversations for Healing
“Sexual Abuse, Whiteness, and Patriarchy”
Lama Rod Owens, Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls, JoAnna Hardy,
Nalika Gajaweera (moderator)
August 8, 3:30-5pm EST [Register here.]
Speaking as, with, and for Survivors, Part II, Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha: Conversations for Healing
“Speaking As, With, and For Survivors”
Lama Willa Miller, Chozen Bays Roshi, Grace Schireson Roshi, Carol Merchasin
Amy Langenberg (moderator)
June 26, 3:30-5pm EST [Register here.]
Community, Transparency and Accountability, Part I, Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha: Conversations for Healing
“Community, Transparency, and Accountability”*
Egyoku Nakao Roshi & Tenku Ruff Roshi
Ann Gleig (moderator)
May 8, 3:30-5pm EST [Register here.]
*This conversation is for Buddhist teachers and leaders (people on boards of directors or holding other senior positions in a Buddhist organization). All subsequent conversations are open to everyone.
Invited Workshop: Sexual Abuse in Buddhism
This community-building, discussion-based gathering includes Buddhist Studies scholars, activists, and Buddhist teachers. Participants will raise salient questions and discuss challenges they have faced in the work of responding to sexual abuse. This online event is taking the place of an in-person gathering, which has been postponed until fall of 2021 due to COVID-19.