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- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 12–19 March, 2018
- CALL FOR PAPERS> International Conference From the Silk to the Book Road(s)
- NEW BOOK: The Administration of Buddhism in China
- CONFERENCE> A week of academic events on Buddhism in Paris
- CONFERENCE> Call for Applications: International Program of Lecture Series, Conference/Forum, and Fieldwork on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 12–19 March, 2018
by Lewis Doney
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from12 March 2018 to 19 March 2018. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Trinity College - Post-Doctoral Fellow, American Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56561
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Columbia University - Lecturer in Discipline in Chinese history,
literature, or visual culture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56580
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
University of Utah - Lecturer, Japanese Language and Culture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56582
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha - Associate Editor,
Translation of the Tibetan Kangyur
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56579
Friends Historical Association - Editorship of the Journal Quaker
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56573
University of Notre Dame - Postdoctoral Research Associate
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56567
NONE
Australian National University - Head of Department, Strategic and
Defence Studies Centre
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56588
Harvard University - Senior Preceptor in Russian Language
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56583
New York University - Dibner Chair in History and Philosophy of
Technology and Science
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56572
University of Illinois - Chicago - Visiting/Clinical Faculty - Museum
and Exhibition Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56575
University of Oslo - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social
Anthropology: Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56577
University of Oslo - PhD Research Fellow in social anthropology:
Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56578
CALL FOR PAPERS> International Conference From the Silk to the Book Road(s)
by Vicky Baker
CALL FOR PAPERSInternational Conference From the Silk to the Book Road(s): Networks of Commerce, Artifacts, and Books Between Central and East Asia
September 21-23, 2018; Berkeley, California, USA
Call for papers deadline April 15, 2018.
The Buddhist Studies Forum at the University of British Columbia, with the assistance of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, cordially invites proposals for an international conference on “From the Silk to the Book Road(s): Networks of Commerce, Artifacts, and Books Between Central and East Asia” to be held between September 21-23, 2018, in Berkeley, California. The conference is made possible with generous support from the Sixth Patriarch Temple based in Guangzhou, China.
Silk may be the most famous commodity once traded across numerous land and sea routes that linked China to the west, but the trade of Buddhist—and other religious—texts, books, images, and ritual implements from India, Central Asia, and East Asia is much better documented in premodern sources, and the flow of exchange was multidirectional. As early as the eighth-century through the late nineteenth, there is tantalizing evidence of a book road—or trade—between eastern Chinese ports and Nagasaki, Japan. This conference explores the trans-cultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional networks of the exchange of commerce, texts, books, rituals, and objects along the Silk Road(s) that connected China to points south and west, and back again across the East and South China Seas with Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
- Studies of manuscripts, printed texts, and/or epigraphy preserved along the Silk Road(s) in Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Khotanese, Tangut, and so forth, with special consideration of textual production and/or preservation;
- Studies of Buddhist or religious literature (printed texts, manuscripts, and/or epigraphy), rituals, performances, and sacred spaces tied to networks of exchange in Central and East Asia;
- Various patterns of interactions between different religious traditions and the narratives of the Silk and Book Road(s);
- Studies of the exchange and/or production of particular manuscripts or printed books (codicology) in Central and East Asia;
- Presence of and interactions between different Buddhist traditions (Chan, Tiantai, Pure-land, Vinaya, Esotericism, Tibetan Buddhism, etc.) along the Silk and/or Book Road(s);
- Political and military uses of commerce, texts, books, rituals, and objects exchanged along the Silk and/or Book Road(s);
- Studies of narratives connected to or engendered by singular or multiple sites along the Silk or Book Road(s);
- Premodern and modern uses of the Silk and Book Road(s) to construct multiple religious, cultural, or different identities;
- Studies of imagination and perceptions of the Silk and/or Book Road(s) in South, Central, and East Asian countries and regions beyond China;
- Sites along the Silk and/or Book Road(s) as models for other sacred sites (including sacred mountains, temples, and shrines) mentioned in scriptures or religious literature “cloned” in elsewhere in Asia (Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Central Asia);
- Narratives of networks of exchange along the Silk and Book Road(s) not in religious literature.
A conference volume will collect all the papers in English, plus the English translations of several papers written in non-English languages; a Chinese volume, to be published in China, will include the Chinese versions for all non-Chinese papers in addition to those papers contributed by our colleagues based in China. Only scholars who are confident in finishing their draft papers by the end of August and publishable papers by the end of 2018 are encouraged to apply.
NEW BOOK: The Administration of Buddhism in China
by Albert Welter
On behalf of Cambria
Press, I would like to take this opportunity to announce my new book, The Administration of
Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical
Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song Seng shilue). The book will be making
its debut at the Cambria Press booth (#109) at the AAS conference in Washington
D.C. and there will be a meet-the-author session on Friday, March 23, at 3
p.m.
Table of Contents: Introduction; Chapter 1. The
Life and Times of Zanning: Reflections on the Dual Allegiances of a Faithful
Buddhist at the Imperial Court; Chapter 2. The Topical Compendium of the
Buddist Clergy; Translation: A Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy
in China; Fascicle I: The Propagation of the Buddhist Faith; Fascicle
II: The Institutional History of Buddhism; Fascicle III: The Social
History of Buddhism; Bibliography; Index
http://www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979428.cfmCONFERENCE> A week of academic events on Buddhism in Paris
by Nicolas Sihle
Dear colleagues,With apologies for the very short notice:
The Paris-based CEIB (Centre d'Études Interdisciplinaires sur le Bouddhisme) is holding or co-sponsoring a number of (primarily academic) conferences and other events on Buddhism this week. The events span a variety of disciplines and forms of Buddhism, and include:
- The 2018 CEIB "Lin Li-kouang distinguished lecture for Buddhist studies", by Prof. Richard Gombrich (Oxford University), on the theme: "The Mass Murderer who owes his Existence to Ignorance of Pali". Time: Thursday, March 22, 10-12h. Place: INALCO (Salons d’honneur), at 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris.
- A roundtable on: "The state of the anthropology of Buddhism", with Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière (CNRS), Patrice Ladwig (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Nicolas Sihlé (CNRS), Erick White (University of Michigan). Time: Friday, March 23, 14-17h. Place: EHESS (Room 737), at 54 bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris.
If you can make it to Paris, you are most warmly welcome to any of the events in this series.
The complete program can be downloaded here:
https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2006/files/2018/03/programme-Printemp...
For any additional information, please contact JI Zhe (zhe.ji@inalco.fr), Claire Vidal (claire.vidal01@gmail.com) or Nicolas Sihlé (nicolas.sihle@gmail.com).
With best wishes,
Nicolas Sihlé
Center for Himalayan Studies (CNRS)
CONFERENCE> Call for Applications: International Program of Lecture Series, Conference/Forum, and Fieldwork on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures
by Vicky Baker
International Program of Lecture Series, Conference/Forum, and
Fieldwork on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures July 3-12, 2018, Mount Wutai, Shanxi, China
The Wutai International Institute of Buddhism and East Asian Cultures (WII), Research Center for Buddhist Texts and Arts (RCBTA) at Peking University, Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies (IERS) at Tsinghua University, Center for East Asian Religions at the University of Zhejiang (ZU-CEAR), and the Buddhist Studies Forum at the University of British Columbia (UBC-BSF) in Vancouver, Canada cordially invite applications for a 10-day (July 3-12, 2018) program of lecture series, conference/forum, and fieldwork on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures at Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove (Dasheng Zhulin si 大聖竹林寺), Mount Wutai 五臺山, Shanxi, China.
I. Venue: Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove.
II. Schedule——July 3-12, 2018:
- July 3, 2018: Registration, Opening Ceremony;
- July 4-5, 2018: international conference;
- July 6, 2018: Lecture Series, Young Scholars’ Forum (Panel 1);
- July 7-9, 2018: Seminar Series (1-3);
- July 10, 2018: Young Scholars’ Forum (Panels 2-5);
- July 11, 2018: Tour of famed religious sites in Shanxi;
- July 12, 2018: Leaving.
The program organizers have invited three international scholars to conduct a three-part lecture series related to Buddhism and East Asian Culture, with each part composed of three consecutive 120-minute lectures with a general theme (over three days). These three speakers and their lecture themes are:
- Jinhua Chen 陳金華 (University of British Columbia 加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學): Identity & Network as a Paradigm for the Study of East Asian Buddhism 身份認同與網絡構建作為研究東亞佛教的範式;
- Bernard Faure 佛雷 (Columbia University 美國哥倫比亞大學): Two Great Traditions of East Asian Buddhism: Chan/Zen and Esoteric Buddhism 東亞佛教之雙峰並峙: 禪宗與密教;
- Seishi Karashima 辛島靜志 (Soka University 日本創價大學): Mahāsāṃghikas and Mahāyāna 大衆部與大乘.
IV. Four Additional Projects: In addition to this four-part intensive lecture series, this program also sponsors the following four projects:
- An International Conference on Identity & Network, titled “Identity and Networks in Buddhism and East Asian Religions,” to be held at the Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove between July 3-5, 2018 (conference information announced at http://frogbear.org/call-for-papers-identity-and-networks-in-buddhism-and-east-asian-religions/).
- An International Young Scholars Forum on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures (July 6 and 10 at the Great Sage Monastery of Bamboo Grove). Excellent articles may be recommended to academic journals for publication. They include the Fojiao wenxian yanjiu 佛教文獻研究 (Studies on Buddhist Texts), Foxue yanjiu佛學研究 (Buddhist Studies), Fojiao shi yanjiu佛教史研究 (Historical Studies of Buddhism), Studies in Chinese Religions, edited by Prof. Fang Guangchang 方廣錩, Prof. Shengkai 聖凱, Prof. Sun Yinggang 孙英剛, and Prof. Jinhua Chen 陳金華, respectively.
- Taste of the Dharma: a series of 1-2 hour sessions providing monastic experiences, including seated meditation, tea-ceremony and other temple rituals.
- Occasional Visits to Renowned Local Historical Sites (especially Buddhist and other religious temples and shines) on the Wutai range, and in other sites in Shanxi as well (July 11).
VI. Program Expenses: Successful candidates will be exempted from all tuition fees. Program organizers will also provide free boarding (lodging and meals) in China during the program period, although participants are expected to cover the costs for the transportation between their home cities and Mount Wutai; and an administration fee of 1,000RMB≈US$150.
