Tony Scott

Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science

Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto

“Buddhism and the Cold War in Asia: A Burmese Case Study and (Un)Disciplinary Reflections”

Friday, November 22, noon

Peters Campus Life Building 100 and online

Co-sponsored by NIU’s Graduate Colloquium Program

A scholar of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, Tony Scott is focused on the interplay between Pali literature, post-colonial politics, and meditation movements in Burma/Myanmar. Tony’s current project tries to push the boundaries of Buddhist Studies by exploring the role of Buddhist activists, ethics, and political principles in the project(s) of deimperialization unfolding across Asia during the Cold War. His broader research profile includes projects on modern Pali commentary, the visual aesthetics of Buddhist saints in twentieth-century Burma, and the settler-colonial metanarratives underlying the history of palaeontology in his natal home, the badlands of Alberta.