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講題：The Virtuous Cycle of Love" : Affects, debt and morality in Tzu Chi

講者：Luc Castaneda〔Doctoral candidate, Center for Social Sciences of Religion, 法國社會科學高等學院（EHESS）。中研院與EHESS共同指導博士生。〕  

主持人：李梅君（本所助研究員）

時間：2026年5月6日（星期三）14:00~16:00【演講於15:30結束，歡迎現場佳賓到會議室外大廳，與講者交流互動。】

地點：本所第三會議室（本所新館3樓2319室）

演講語言：英文  

摘要：

In Tzu Chi, the biggest Buddhist charity in Taiwan, the logic of volunteering is articulated through the idea of a "virtuous cycle of love" (愛的循環) : by helping selflessly, the volunteers will inspire recipients to, in turn, help others. Based on an ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in Taipei and Hualien since 2024, this paper examines the concrete mechanisms through which this cycle is produced, internalized, and sustained. Drawing on the anthropology of the gift, I examine how the practice of "testimony-sharing" (分享) functions as a device for converting affects - "being moved" (感動) - into a moral obligation to "give back" (回饋). By asking what this "cycle of love" enables and what does it foreclose, I will interrogate what kind of moral subjects and social bonds this process produces, and the ways it shapes how suffering is interpreted and responded to.  

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