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Christopher Kelley |
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Biography
Christopher Kelley is currently a Ph. D. candidate, under Robert Thurman, in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University. He received a B.A. in Anthropology and Sociology from Lafayette College (1997), an M.A. in Religion from Columbia University (2004), and an M. Phil from Columbia University (2009).
He is presently writing a dissertation on the Buddhist empathy in the context of contemporary moral philosophy and psychology. Kelley teaches classes at The New School in New York City and has been a preceptor in the core curriculum at Columbia College.
He is also the rapporteur and co-founder of the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy (www.cbs.columbia.edu/cscp/), and a contributor to the Buddhist Studies Weblog.
In 2007 he directed a team that produced a rigorous two-day event entitled "Mind and Reality: A Multidisciplinary Symposium on Consciousness." The keynote speakers for this event were Owen Flanagan and B. Alan Wallace. The proceedings are available online as an e-seminar (http://www.mindandreality.org/).
Kelley will reprise his role as conference planner this October 2011 with an event entitled "Karma, Rebirth, and Buddhist Ethics: From Theory to Practice in the 21st Century." The keynote speakers for this event are Karl Potter, Damien Keown, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong. Details are online (http://www.karmaconference.org/).
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