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 [Yuhang Li](https://arthistory.wisc.edu/staff/yuhang-li/): “Anthropomorphizing Icons through Gendered Bodies: Rethinking Chen Hongshou’s Dharma Likeness of Cundi Buddha Mother”

 [Carolyn Wargula](https://art.williams.edu/profile/cjw2/): “Silk, Hair, and Gold: Materializing Women in Embroideries of Amida’s Welcoming Descent”

 [Youn-mi Kim](https://pure.ewha.ac.kr/en/persons/younmi-kim): “Textile, Talismans, and Incantation: Tracing Female Agency in Chosŏn Buddhist Practice”

 [Melissa McCormick](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/melissa-melissa-mccormick): Ōtagaki Rengetsu’s Haptic Poetics and the Non-Self

 [Kate Lingley](https://hawaii.edu/art/kate-lingley/): ​​”Buddhist Women, Patronage, and Agency in Early Medieval China"

 [Talia Andrei](https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/tandrei/profile.html): “The Elderly Nun, The Rain Treasure Child, and the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel: Tracing Patronage and Buddhist Networks at the Grand Shrine of Ise”

 [Jinah Kim](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/jinah-kim): “Women in Action: Gender dynamics in the art of medieval South Asia”

 [Michelle McCoy](https://www.haa.pitt.edu/people/michelle-mccoy): “Notes on the Tangut Nun in Mogao Cave 61”

 Discussant: [Janet Gyatso](https://hds.harvard.edu/people/janet-gyatso)

 [Ashley Thompson](https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff92810.php): “Becoming and Unbecoming: Meditations on Gender and Form at Srei Santhor”

 [Ikumi Kaminishi](https://as.tufts.edu/art-architecture/people/faculty/ikumi-kaminishi): “Buddhist Women Who Crossed the Cordon”

 [Ryūichi Abé](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/ryuichi-abe): “The Dragon Princess Episode in a Larger context early Mahayana literature”

 [Megan Bryson](https://religion.utk.edu/faculty/bryson.php): “Meeting the Multifaceted Goddess: Images of Baijie Shengfei”