November 8, 2024
Buddhist nuns get offerings in the morning

UCF Associate Professor of Philosophy Ann Gleig was a co-organizer of the Heartwood-Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivor’s Voices at Northwestern University in Chicago in October 2024. This gathering brought together a diverse group of participants to address the sensitive subject of sexual abuse within Buddhist communities.

Gleig co-organized with Buddhist studies scholars Sarah Jacoby andAmy Paris Langenberg, and Heartwood Center founder Nancy Floy, all of whom share a vision to provide a safe and collaborative environment for survivors, scholars, monastics, and allies to engage in open dialogue on the complexities of the issue.

Publications about the event include:

Mariana Restrepo, The Heartwood-Northwestern Symposium: A Groundbreaking Symposium Centering Survivors of Sexual Violence in Buddhism, Lion’s Roar: Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time

Justin Whitaker, Symposium at Northwestern University Addresses Sexual Violence in Buddhism, Buddhistdoor Global, October 31, 2024

Ann Gleig, Amy Langenberg, Sarah Jacoby, Reflection on Heartwood Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivor Voices, The Shiloh Project: Rape culture, religion and the Bible, November 4, 2024