Global Humanities and Religions' Michael Slouber to attend workshop in Vienna, present research in Paris

WWU professor of Global Humanities and Religions President of the Faculty Senate Michael Slouber will travel to Vienna and Paris for a workshop and conference from May 23 to June 1. In Vienna he joins an international group that is creating a trilingual dictionary of Tantric terminology. The team has scoured hundreds of manuscripts and published texts to recover the meaning of terms not attested in existing Sanskrit dictionaries.

In Paris he was invited to speak at a conference titled “Tantric Borderlands” where participants trace connected histories between the Himalayan region of India and Nepal and the Indonesian archipelago. Slouber will present new findings on a little-known religious tradition that spanned this five-thousand-mile distance from around the eight century CE. The border-crossing nature of the research complements Slouber's role as WWU's advisor for the South and Southeast Asian Studies minor.