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- LECTURE>Dr.
Ye Shaoyong (Prof. Assoc., Peking University) at IRIAB, Soka University
(2018-8-10)
- CALL FOR
PAPERS> Disability and the Medieval Cults of Saints: Interdisciplinary
and Intersectional Approaches
LECTURE>Dr.
Ye Shaoyong (Prof. Assoc., Peking University) at IRIAB, Soka University
(2018-8-10)
by Noriyuki Kudo
Dear friends and colleagues,You are cordially invited to the following lecture at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University in Tokyo.
Dr. Ye Shaoyong (Associate Professor, Peking University, China)
Theme: Kumārajīva vs. Nāgārjuna on the Refutation of Annihilationism: A Comparative Inquiry into Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and Kumārajīva’s Translation
Date: 10, August, 2018
Time: 1500-1700 (JST)
Place: IRIAB, 2nd Floor, Building C, Soka University
[Japanese]
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/lecture/
[English]
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/en/lecture/
(PDF file in Japanese)
Contact Phone Number: +81-(0)42-691-2695
Contact E-mail: iriab@soka.ac.jp
Access (Japanese): https://www.soka.ac.jp/access/
Access (English): https://www.soka.ac.jp/en/access/
All those who are interested in the topic will be welcome.
Noriyuki KUDO
The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology
Soka University
nkudo@soka.ac.jp
CALL FOR
PAPERS> Disability and the Medieval Cults of Saints: Interdisciplinary and
Intersectional Approaches
by Massimo Rondolino
Editors: Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Pope Parker,
and Alicia Spencer-Hall
We invite abstract submissions for 7,500-word essays
to be included in an edited volume on the topic of Disability and the Medieval
Cults of Saints. Because saints’ cults in the Middle Ages centralized the
body—those of the saints themselves, those of devotees, and the idea of the
body on earth and in the afterlife—scholars of medieval disability frequently
find that our best sources are those that also deal with saints and sanctity.
This volume therefore seeks to foster and assemble a wide range of approaches
to disability in the context of medieval saints’ cults. We seek contributions
spanning a variety of fields, including history, literature, art history,
archaeology, material culture, histories of science and medicine, religious
history, etc. We especially encourage contributions that extend beyond Roman
Christianity (including non-Christian concepts of sanctity) and that extend
beyond Europe/the West.
For the purposes of this volume, we define
“disability” as broadly including physical impairment, diversity of bodily
forms, chronic illness, neurodiversity (mental illness, cognitive impairment,
etc), sensory impairment, and any other variation in bodily form or ability
that affected medieval individuals’ role and treatment in their communities. We
are open to topics spanning the medieval period both temporally and
geographically, but also inclusive of late antiquity and the early modern era.
The editors envision essays falling into three units: saints with disabilities;
saints interacting with disability; and theorizing sanctity/disability.
We welcome proposals on topics including, but not
limited to:
· Phenomenology
of saints’ cults with respect to disability, e.g. pilgrimage, feast days,
liturgy, etc;
· Materiality
of sanctity involved in reliquaries, shrines, and relics;
· Doctrinal
approaches to disability in relation to sanctity and holiness;
· Sanctity
and bodies in the archaeological record;
· Intersections
of disability and race/gender/sexuality/etc in hagiography, art, and material
culture;
·
Healing miracles and disabling miraculous punishments;
· Cross-cultural
approaches to sanctity and disability;
· Saints
who wrote about disability;
· Specific
saints with connections to concepts of disability, e.g. Margaret of Antioch,
Cosmas and Damian, Francis of Assisi, Dymphna, etc;
· Theorizing
sanctity in relation to disability; and
· Saintly
figures in non-hagiographic genres.
Timeline
Oct. 1,
2018
Proposals due
Oct. 31,
2018
Replies sent to proposals
Nov. 30,
2018
Volume proposal submitted to press (contributors will provide short abstracts
and bios)
May 31,
2019
Essays due from contributors
Aug. 30,
2019
Editors deliver extensive feedback to contributors
Jan. 15,
2020
Revised essays due from contributors
April 3,
2020
Full volume manuscript delivered to press
Please submit abstracts of 300–400 words, along with a
short author bio and a description of any images you anticipate wanting to
include in your essay, to the editors at DisabilitySanctity@gmail.com by
Monday, October 1, 2018.
