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10 Jun 2024: 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Yin-cheng International Conference. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1 Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Keynote Addresses. • Rey Sheng Her The Public History in of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. • Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2 The Life/Lives of the Buddha: Chair: Richard Bowring. • Mario Poceski Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha. • Arun Kumar Yadav Historiography of Some Major Biographical Events of the Śākyamuni Buddha. • Gudrun Bühnemann An Illustrated Life of Śākyamuni Buddha According to the Newar Buddhist Tradition. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-17:30 Session 3 Writing, Publishing, and the Laity: Chair: Noga Ganany. • Marcus Bingenheimer. Uses of Biography in the Longshu jingtuwen (1162 CE). • Guo Xing Bhikshuni (Yu-Chen Tsui) Hongzhi Zhengjue’s Usage of Allusions from Secular Literature in Gong’an Commentarial Verses. • Katherine

10 Jun 2024: 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Yin-cheng International Conference. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1 Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Keynote Addresses. • Rey Sheng Her The Public History in of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. • Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2 The Life/Lives of the Buddha: Chair: Richard Bowring. • Mario Poceski Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha. • Arun Kumar Yadav Historiography of Some Major Biographical Events of the Śākyamuni Buddha. • Gudrun Bühnemann An Illustrated Life of Śākyamuni Buddha According to the Newar Buddhist Tradition. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-17:30 Session 3 Writing, Publishing, and the Laity: Chair: Noga Ganany. • Marcus Bingenheimer. Uses of Biography in the Longshu jingtuwen (1162 CE). • Guo Xing Bhikshuni (Yu-Chen Tsui) Hongzhi Zhengjue’s Usage of Allusions from Secular Literature in Gong’an Commentarial Verses. • Katherine

3 Jun 2024: Small Data, Big Time—A retrospect of the first weeks of COVID-19. Qingyuan Zhao. [To be read before The Royal Statistical Society at the Society’s 2021 annual conference held inManchester on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021, the President, Professor Sylvia Richardson, in theChair]. Abstract. This article reviews some early investigations and research studies in the first weeks of the coron-avirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from a statistician’s perspective. These investigations werebased on very small datasets but were momentous in the initial global reactions to the pandemic. Thearticle discusses the initial evidence of high infectiousness of COVID-19 and why that conclusion wasnot reached faster than in reality. Further reanalyses of some published COVID-19 studies show thatthe epidemic growth was dramatically underestimated by compartmental models, and the lack of fitcould have been clearly identified by simple data visualization. Finally, some lessons for statisticiansare discussed.Keywords: Infectious disease modeling; Selection bias; COVID-19; Model diagnostics. 1 Introduction. Starting from a regional disease outbreak in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)rapidly grew into a once-in-a-lifetime