November 25, 2024
The Demon Multiple: How Scholar-Monks Make Disease Pathogens Hang Together
Presentation for Panel, “Wondering, Reading, Doubting: The Legacy of Scholarly Monks in Medieval Japan,” American Academy of Religion (AAR), Annual Meeting 2024, San Diego, CA.
A Nascent Zombie Affliction in Medieval Japan: The Buddhist Ritual Response to "Corpse-vector Disease”
Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting. Eureka Springs, Arkansas
October 23, 2024
January 19, 2024
Evil Dead in the Aristocratic Mansion: Buddhist Experiments with Ritual Healing in Heian Japan
The Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at Northwestern University (abstract here)
November 23, 2023
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Should You Run for Your Life?! Let’s talk Religion, Horror, Anime
Let’s Talk Series, Religion Department, Oberlin College
July 11, 2022
Aromatics on the Archipelago: Materializing Agarwood in Ancient and Medieval Japan
Global Lives of Medicines: Materials, Markets, and Healing Practices Across Asia. International workshop at the University of Pennsylvania (press with photos here)
October 26, 2021
Everything Evil in You: Metapersonal Irritants in the Buddhist Immune System
Religion, Thought, and Healing. Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
March 23, 2019
Chakras, Worms, and Viscera: Illustrating Buddhist Epistemologies of the Body in Early Modern Medical Manuscripts
Presentation for Panel “Reading the Body in Early Medieval Japanese Literature.” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
March 15, 2019
Addressing Affliction in a Defiled Capital: Buddhist Moxibustion and the Clinical Encounter in Late Heian Japan
Presentation for Between Worlds: Borders, Performances, and Deities. International conference at Columbia University.
June 18, 2018
On the Varieties of Corpse-vector Disease: Classical Medical Diseases Through a Buddhist Lens in Medieval Japan
Talk for Reading Workshop, “Chinese Medicine and Healing: Translating Practice,” Cornell University.
August 2017
Corpse-Worms, Human-Spirits, and the Courtier Body in Kamakura Japan
Presentation for Panel, “Worms, Demons and Gods: Disorder and Health Within the Body,” 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM), Kiel, Germany.
March 2017
Mulberry Recipes in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Healing
Presentation for Panel “The Religious Life of Substances,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Toronto.
November 2016
Okyū no Bukkyō shōshi お灸の仏教小史 [A Short Buddhist History of Moxibustion]
For Moxafrica (UK Charity Organization), Kyoto, Japan (in Japanese)
Reading Aromatics in Japanese Buddhist Materia Medica
Encounters and Intersections in East Asian Religions: A Columbia University Graduate Student Conference in Kyoto (Co-Chair and Organizer)
June 19, 2016
June 4, 2016
Heian kōki no bukkyō-kei honzōsho ni okeru kōyaku to ‘yoi’—‘Kōyōshō’ wo chūshin ni” 平安後期の仏教系本草書における香薬の「酔い」─『香要抄』を中心に.
“Yoi to Yamai no Bunka” 酔いと病の文化, Conference at Nagoya University, Japan (in Japanese)
April 3, 2016
Cautery in Context: The Adoption of Moxibustion in Medieval Tendai-Jimon Healing Rituals
Presentation for Panel "Bodies at Risk: Health and Anxiety in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Medicine," Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
February 16, 2016
Buddhist Moxibustion in the Practice of Medieval Japanese Healing
Kyoto Asian Studies Group Meeting, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
November 11, 2014
Chūsei mikkyō isho no manazashi: Denshibyō kuden wo chūshin ni” 中世密教医書のまなざし─『伝屍病口伝』を中心に [The Gaze of Medieval Esoteric Buddhist Medical Texts: On Oral Transmission on Corpse-vector Disease].
Graduate School of Humanities Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Texts, Nagoya University, Japan (in Japanese)
February 16, 2013
Cauterizing Corpse-vector Infections: Buddhist Medicine in Late Heian Japan
Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia