Table of Contents
- CFP> The
Religious Body Imagined
- CFP> Critical
Review for Buddhist Studies (CRBS) vol. 24
- LECTURE> Peter
Skilling at Waseda: "Stūpas and the Spread of Buddhism in India: The
Early Period." Sept. 29, 2018
- CFP> The
history and legacy of Guru Padmasambhava: Conference in Delhi, 2019
CFP> The
Religious Body Imagined
by Pamela D. Winfield
Elon University’s “On the Edge” symposium, hosted by the Center for the Study of
Religion, Culture and Society (CSRCS), explores new directions in the
interdisciplinary study of religion. This year the CSRCS invites proposals for
our February 7-9, 2019 symposium focused on “The Religious Body Imagined.”
The Religious Body
Imagined
This symposium will probe the porous edges of the religious body and
examines the ways in which it has been imagined, imaged, and discursively
produced in particular places, times, and religious traditions. It seeks to
theorize the religious body’s various functions, roles, and transformative
effects through a range of disciplinary and theoretical lenses. It asks, “How
does our experience of the body shape our conceptions of the sacred (however
defined), and conversely, how do the invisible contours of the sacred
re-instantiate or re-embody themselves in concrete physical form? The symposium
explicitly seeks to engage theories of the body, materiality, performance, and
visual culture, as well as cultural studies, space / place, ritual,
postcolonial theory and / or social justice as it pertains to embodiment.
Conference
co-conveners:
Pamela D. Winfield, Associate Professor of Religious Studies (Elon
University)Mina Garcia, Associate Professor of Spanish (Elon University)
Direct all inquiries to Dr. Brian K. Pennington, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society, at bpennington4@elon.edu.
Papers should ideally be oriented around a specific textual, visual, or material representation of the “religious body” in context while also drawing theoretical conclusions from the specificity of its geo-historical location and particular religious tradition. In this way, the symposium represents a project in particularism that nevertheless draws upon our shared understanding and experience of embodiment. Papers will be selected for their theoretical sophistication, scholarly quality, and thematic coherence with other papers in the symposium. Proposals should include a 150-word abstract, a 750-word description of the proposed paper’s argument and development, and a current CV. Inquiries should be addressed to CSRCS Director Brian K. Pennington at bpennington4@elon.edu.
Deadline
Authors should submit abstracts by Sept. 15, 2018 using the form below.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by Oct. 15, 2018
Completed papers will be due no later than Dec. 31, 2018
Lodging and some meals during the symposium will be covered. Limited travel subventions may be available for some presenters upon application. Presenters must commit to circulating papers in advance of the conference with the understanding that select papers will be revised and submitted for publication as an edited volume or special issues of an appropriate journal.
https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/csrcs/on-the-edge/
CFP> Critical
Review for Buddhist Studies (CRBS) vol. 24
by Youngsu Ha
Dear Colleagues,
Geumgang Center for Buddhist
Studies (GCBS) is calling for papers related to studies covering Indian,
Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism, to be included in the publication Critical
Review for Buddhist Studies (CRBS).
This publication has been
issued on a semi-annual basis since February 2006. 23 volumes have been
published to date by GCBS, which is based at Geumgang University in Korea. (All
papers can be downloaded free of charge at http://gcbs.ggu.ac.kr/sub04_1. An
English webpage is currently under construction.)
GCBS was selected and
financed by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in 2007 as a 10-year
project, named the Humanities Korea Project. Our agenda being, "Inspection
of the Cultural Processes of Formation, Transformation, and Reception of the
Classical Buddhist Languages and their Literature."
Since then, we have released
a volume titled, “The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners: Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi
Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet", which was
co-published by Harvard University in the Harvard Oriental Series Vol.
75.
CRBS consists of articles
that were presented at conferences, guest lectures, workshops, and colloquiums.
Almost half of the articles in our journal are written in foreign languages,
other than Korean, such as English, Japanese and Chinese.
Consequently, our journal
(despite its short history of 10 years) was nominated as a Registered Journal
of the Korean Research Foundation in July 2017. Based on this momentum, the
editorial board of CRBS is calling for papers that will showcase various
researchers’ remarkable academic achievements.
We cordially invite scholars
to submit articles based on the broad field of Buddhist studies, covering
Indian, Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism. In particular, textual studies on
Buddhism, or a topic that is relevant to the focus area of GCBS, are welcomed.
Also, critical reviews of recent research, as well as books written in English,
are most welcome.
We adopt a thorough blind
peer-review system to verify submissions, and each submission is examined via
the KCI (Korea Citation Index), which is supported by the NRF. Research
articles will be selected for publication, from among all eligible submissions,
through an impartial blind peer-review conducted by three specialists in the
field.
Authors, of the critical
reviews that are selected for publication, will receive a modest
remuneration.
- Submission
Guideline: Concerning the style of the
manuscripts, please adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style (the 15th and
16th edition). (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html)
- Word
count: -Research paper: 5,000
words~10,000 words (bibliography included); - Review: more or less
2,000 words
- Deadline:
Papers, including reviews, will be received throughout the year, but for volume 24 which will be published on December
31, 2018, the deadline is October 21, 2018.
- Language:
Please note that papers and reviews written in English are preferred.
* After being nominated as a
"Registered Journal of the Korean Research Foundation," CRBS has been
using JAMS, a journal and article management system provided by the Korea
Research Foundation. Please submit papers or reviews to the JAMS of CRBS (https://crbs.jams.or.kr/co/main/jmMain.kci) after signing
up. If you have any trouble signing up for the JAMS of CRBS, please feel free
to contact us at Email (criticalreviewforbs@gmail.com). We will help
you create accounts and submit papers to the system.
We welcome your continued
interest and wait with eager anticipation for submissions from Buddhist
scholars around the world. Thank you!
Best wishes,
Chief editor: Youngjin Lee
Editorial members: Charles DiSimone,
Gipyo Choi,
Ohmin Kwon, Robert H. Sharf, Sangyeob Cha, Seishi Karashima, Seongcheol Kim,
Seungtaek Lim, Yeonsik Choi, Yoonho Cho.
LECTURE>
Peter Skilling at Waseda: "Stūpas and the Spread of Buddhism in India: The
Early Period." Sept. 29, 2018
by Noboyoshi Yamabe
Dear Colleagues, It is my great pleasure to announce a public lecture by Professor Peter Skilling at Waseda University on September 29, 2018.
Title: Stūpas and the Spread of Buddhism in India: The Early Period.
Speaker: Professor Peter Skilling, the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO), retired.
Time: September 29, 2018, Saturday, 4:30pm-6pm.
Venue: Waseda University, Toyama Campus, Building 36, Room 681.
Abstract: The historical study of early Buddhism is necessarily grounded in close studies of contemporary material, geographical, and archaeological contexts. Early Buddhism travelled with relics, the physical remains of the departed Fortunate One; the housing of relics created new landscapes dominated by clusters of stupas and associated ritual and monastic structures. This presentation visits some of the early sites, in an attempt to trace the early networks of Buddhism as revealed by stupa complexes along the Northern and Southern Routes, especially those in the hills and valleys of the Vindhya plateau. The speaker draws on texts, archaeological reports, and his own travels in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, over a period of several years (2012 to 2015).
About the Speaker: Peter Skilling is a Special Lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and an Honorary Associate, Department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. Until his retirement in 2017, he was a Professor of the French School of Asian Studies (EFEO) based in Bangkok. His main field of research is the epigraphy, archaeology, history, and literature of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia according to Sanskrit, Pali, Thai and Tibetan sources. His published works include Mahāsūtras: Great Discourses of the Buddha (2 vols., 1994 and 1997) and Buddhism and Buddhist Literature of South-East Asia (2009), in addition to numerous articles.
The lecture will be given in English and translated into Japanese. It is free of charge and open to the public. I look forward to seeing you then.
Nobuyoshi Yamabe
Waseda University
CFP> The
history and legacy of Guru Padmasambhava: Conference in Delhi, 2019
by Muthu Kumaraswamy
Dear colleagues,We are planning to organise a conference on the history and legacy of Guru Padmasambhava in 2019. We are looking forward to inviting scholars from Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Srilanka and India. The proposed conference will take place in New Delhi. At this stage, we are building and updating our database of scholars and I request the members of the list send me the names and contact details of scholars from the countries mentioned above. Scholars in the list can contact me off the list at my email address mdmuthukumaraswamy@sahapedia.org
Looking forward to hearing from you,
M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
