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Kedao Tong
Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2018
graduate student worker, Buddhist StudiesBioKedao Tong is a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies. His research focuses on the socio-cultural history of Chinese Buddhism and topics related to animals in the Chinese and the broader East Asian contexts. He is currently writing his dissertation, tentatively titled "Rescue the Buddha’s Animal Disciples: The Practice of Buddhist Animal Release in China," which explores the the history of animal release (fangsheng) in Chinese religions from the fifth to the early twentieth centuries.
Kedao received an MA in Chinese from Stanford University, where he wrote a thesis that studies the writing of women’s epitaphs from China’s Northern Dynasties (439-581 AD). Prior to coming to Stanford, he received an Honors BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. He has taken up coursework and language training in Hong Kong and Japan, and has a background in editorial work in academic and other settings. -
Pablo Tut
Master of Fine Arts Student, Art Practice
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCritic and analysis of the social context that supports art from an anticolonial and antiracist perspective. Artistic projects that face precarity and inequality through collective organization, discussion, writing, and art praxis. Specialization in installation art, sculpture, and drawing.