Dr Charles Hallisey (Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer in Buddhist
Literatures, Harvard Divinity School) will deliver the
15th I. B. HORNER MEMORIAL LECTURE
“Pali and World Literature”
Friday, 20 September 2013, 5.30 p.m.
Room B111 (Brunei Gallery)
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
Charles Hallisey has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Loyola
University in Chicago, and at Harvard University. His research
centres on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali
language and literature, Buddhist ethics, and literature in Buddhist
culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled “Flowers
on the Tree of Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist
Sri Lanka”.
All are welcome
Best wishes,
Rupert Gethin
-- Rupert Gethin
Professor of Buddhist Studies
University of Bristol
Department of Religion and Theology
3 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB, UK