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- RESOURCE> Site and Sight: Chinese Pagoda
- CALL FOR PAPERS> IAHR 2020: Tantra, Shamanism and Magic: Experiences, Practices, and Practitioners at the “Margins” of the Indic World
RESOURCE> Site and Sight: Chinese Pagoda
by Anya Ventura
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Type:
Conference
Date:
November 15, 2019 to November 16, 2019
Location:
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields:
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Chinese History /
Studies, East Asian History / Studies
Organized by Harvard CAMLAb, “Site and Sight: Chinese Pagoda” brings
together an international community of professors, researchers, and graduate
students to investigate discrete instantiations of the Chinese stupa-pagoda,
or ta 塔, across a diversity of geographies and media. A monument
that marks the absence of the Buddha Sakyamuni in our world, the pagoda became
a pervasive fixture throughout China’s architectural and artistic landscapes,
its ubiquity belying the site-specific programming of the architectural work in
context. “Site and Sight” seeks to address this tension between the universal
and the local, exploring the monument type and its siting through a series of
case studies. Understanding the pagoda as a dynamic ground for the construction
of meaning, conference presentations will examine questions related to place
making and historic memory, multiculturalism in urban centers, and
transmateriality.At the intersection of humanistic inquiry and design thinking, Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab) is an incubator for creative innovation, a base for multimedia experimentation, and a platform for curatorial activities. By translating research concepts into studio practice—which, in turn, drives new research initiatives—CAMLab explores innovative ways of showcasing Chinese art and culture through immersive installations, exhibitions, films, digital publications, curatorial projects, and other multimedia forms.
Contact Info:
Anya Ventura, Communications WriterHarvard Chinese Art Media Lab
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CALL FOR PAPERS> IAHR 2020: Tantra, Shamanism and Magic: Experiences, Practices, and Practitioners at the “Margins” of the Indic World
by Paolo E. Rosati
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Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
December 5, 2019
Location:
New Zealand
Subject Fields:
Anthropology, Asian History / Studies, Religious Studies and
Theology, South Asian History / Studies, Southeast Asian History / Studies
Call for Papers
XXII Quinquennial World Conference
The International Association for
the History of Religions (IAHR)
University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand),
23–29 August 2020
Title of the Panel:
TANTRA, SHAMANISM, AND MAGIC:
EXPERIENCES, PRACTICES, AND PRACTITIONERS AT
THE "MARGINS" OF THE INDIC WORLD
Tantra, since the middle of the first millennium CE when it made its first
step in the Brahmanic religious folds, challenged the dualistic view of the
cosmos as an opposition between purity and impurity. Through its ritual
violation and subversion of what was perceived as orthopraxy by the mainstream
religions in many regions of Asia, Tantra emerged as a source of power, which
was closely related to the milieux at the “margins” of Indic mainstream
religions.Through a multidisciplinary approach, this panel aims to shed light on experiences, practices and practitioners which have been frequently alienated by the mainstream Indic religions across South and Southeast Asia. Particular attention will be paid to the cross- and trans- cultural dialectic between mainstream, tantric, and intersecting magic-shamanic “marginal” phenomena across history and geography, and their instantiations in textual corpora, myths, folk and oral traditions, visual and performative arts, rituals, and festivals.
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Please
email to paoloe.rosati@gmail.com
(cc to andrea.acri@ephe.psl.eu) your name, position,
a title, a long abstract (500 words), a short abstract (max
150 words), which in case of acceptance will be included in the panel proposal,
and a short CV (max. 2 pages) with your academic experiences
(paper presentations, publications, academic degrees, etc.) by 5th
December 2020.
