Annual Luis O. Gómez Memorial Lecture

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures presents the 2025 Luis O. Gómez Memorial Lecture, "Critical Thinking as a Professor of Buddhism" featuring Professor T Griffith Foulk. Please join us in the West Conference Room on the fourth floor of the Rackham Graduate School. Reception will immediately follow the lecture in Assembly Hall, also at Rackham. Food and beverages will be provided.

Prof. T Griffith Foulk is professor of Asian Religions at Sarah Lawrence College. He received a BA from Williams College and MA & PhD from the University of Michigan. He trained in Zen monasteries in Japan and is active in Buddhist studies, with research interest in philosophical, literary, social, and historical aspects of East Asian Buddhism, especially the Ch’an/Zen tradition. He is co-editor in chief of the Soto Zen Text Project (Tokyo), American Academy of Religion Buddhism Section steering committee member (1987–1994, 2003–), and board member of the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values. Prof. Foulk is also the recipient of Fulbright, Eiheiji, and Japan Foundation fellowships and grants from American Council of Learned Societies and National Endowment for the Humanities.