Asian Studies

The professorship brings scholars from around the world to teach courses on Buddhism.

Karunatilaka’s “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” won the 2022 Booker Prize. He discussed his works with Assistant Professor of English Dinidu Karunanayake in Turner Theatre.

Karunatilaka will converse with Assistant Professor of English Dinidu Karunanayake in Turner Theatre on Monday, Oct. 7, at 5:30 p.m. The Sri Lankan author’s “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” won the 2022 Booker Prize.

Professor of Religious Studies Amy Allocco delivered seven invited lectures and conference presentations in five countries and offered six workshops during her full-year sabbatical

Four recipients recognized for promoting global learning at Elon with the second annual awarding of the Dean's Excellence Awards.

Periclean Scholars Class of 2023 organized the Sri Lankan New Year to bring awareness among the students about the diverse culture of Sri Lanka

Elon’s 132nd Commencement exercises will be held in Schar Center on Friday, May 20, 2022.

Allocco worked with Xenia Zeiler to organize the two linked panels, “Intensification vs. Sweetening? New Patterns in Contemporary Hindu Representation and Practice,” as one outcome of the Collaborative International Research Grant they were awarded by the American Academy of Religion

Winfield, a professor of Buddhist Studies at Elon, provides examination of "tensions and tactics" of displaying Buddhist visual culture.

The two-day annual conference of the United Kingdom Association of Buddhist Studies was hosted by the University of Edinburgh on Zoom and Gather and drew into attendance over 100 European and American scholars of Buddhist Studies, Art History, and other cognate fields.