Siam Society lecture focuses on history of Buddhism

Siam Society is holding a lecture on “Theravada Buddhist Constructs: Introducing Two New Volumes” at its Lecture Room on the 4th floor on Saturday at 2pm.

It will be conducted by three speakers — Ashley Thompson, Hiram W. Woodward chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London; Samerchai Poolsuwan, professor of Anthropology at Thammasat University; and Katherine Bowie, a Vilas distinguished achievement professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Thompson is editor of Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives From Art And Archaeology (NUS Press) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook Of Theravada Buddhism, two new…