The Silk Road House presents Tales from the Steppes, an hour of stories from
Central Asia for families performed by storyteller Dana Sherry.
Our
guest will bring you and your children on an imaginary journey to the Central
Asia of folk tales, where mischievous sheep's ears come to life, poor but clever
brothers amaze mighty khans, and peris help princesses achieve their heart's
desire.
Dana Sherry was once simply a respectable historian of the
Caucasus and Central Asia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of
California, Davis, and has taught at U.C. Davis, Stanford University, and St.
Mary's College. However, she has developed a second life as a storyteller, where
she crafts adult stories that transform historical events into tales of wonder
and horror. She also tells traditional and literary tales to young audiences. In
her school-age programs, stories become a way for children to experience
empathy, community, creativity, and joy.
The event will take
place at SRH on Sunday (sic!) June 30, at 1-3pm.
Silk Road
House, 1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 (between Milvia & Martin
Luther King; enter by side door in passageway under black Zabu Zabu awning);
e-mail: silkroadhouse@yahoo.com;
website: www.silkroadhouse.org;
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHouse;
tel.: 510-981-0700.
Silk Road House events are sponsored by the
Silkroad Foundation.
miércoles, 26 de junio de 2013
Yayoi Kusama. Obsesión infinita
| Del 30 de junio al 16 de septiembre. Yayoi Kusama. Obsesión infinita Curadores: Philip Larratt-Smith y Frances Morris. Sala 5 (2º piso), sala 1 (planta baja) y fachada. Inauguración: sábado 29 de junio a las 19:00 Yayoi Kusama. Obsesión infinita será la primera muestra retrospectiva en América Latina de la mayor artista japonesa viva. Organizada por Malba – Fundación Costantini, en colaboración con el estudio de la artista, la muestra presentará un recorrido exhaustivo a través de más de 100 obras creadas entre 1950 y 2013, que incluyen pinturas, trabajos en papel, esculturas, videos, slideshows e instalaciones. Curada por Philip Larratt-Smith (Vice Curador en Jefe, Malba, Buenos Aires) y Frances Morris (curadora de la retrospectiva de Kusama en la Tate Modern, Londres), la exposición presenta la trayectoria de esta artista que va desde el ámbito privado a la esfera pública, desde la pintura a la performance, del estudio a la calle. Yayoi Kusama nació en Matsumoto, Japón, en 1929. Después de un poético conjunto de obras semi-abstractas en papel que marcaron sus comienzos en los 40, Kusama creó la célebre serieInfinity Net (Red Infinita) a fines de los 50 y comienzos de los 60. Estas obras originalísimas se caracterizan por la repetición obsesiva de pequeños arcos de pintura que se acumulan en grandes superficies siguiendo patrones rítmicos. El traslado de Kusama a Nueva York en 1957, donde conoció a Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg y Joseph Cornell, marcó un hito en su carrera artística. De la práctica pictórica pasó a las esculturas blandas conocidas como Accumulations(Acumulaciones) y luego a performances en vivo y happenings, claros exponentes de la cultura alternativa neoyorquina con los que ganó reconocimiento y notoriedad en la escena artística local. En 1973 Kusama volvió a Japón y en 1977 se instaló voluntariamente en una clínica psiquiátrica en la que reside desde entonces. A la marcada peculiaridad psicológica de su obra, se suma un amplio espectro de innovaciones formales y reinvenciones que le permiten a la artista compartir con un público amplio su singular visión, a través de los infinitos espacios espejados y las superficies obsesivamente cubiertas de puntos que le han dado fama internacional. En obras más recientes, Kusama ha recuperado el contacto con sus instintos más radicales en instalaciones envolventes y piezas que invitan a la colaboración, obras que la han convertido en la artista viva más célebre de Japón. En ocasión de la muestra, Malba publicará un volumen especial editado en español e inglés. El libro incluirá una sección de ilustraciones en color de las obras de la muestra, ensayos de Larratt-Smith y Francis Morris, y una cronología visual de la vida de la artista. También en el marco de la muestra, y como continuación de la colaboración lanzada con el libroProximidad del Amor de Tracey Emin, Malba y Mansalva editarán un libro con dos cuentos y una nouvelle escritas por Kusama, en su primera traducción al español por Anna Kazumi-Stahl y su madre, Tomiko Sasagawa Stahl. Itinerancia Malba – Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires 30 de junio – 16 de setiembre, 2013 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Río de Janeiro 12 de octubre, 2013 – 26 de enero, 2014 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia 17 de febrero – 27 de abril, 2014 Instituto Tomie Ohtake, San Pablo 21 de mayo– 27 de julio, 2014 Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de México 25 de septiembre, 2014 – 19 de enero, 2015 Exposición realizada con la colaboración de Kusama Studio con el apoyo de IRB-Brasil Re y las galerías Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Victoria Miro Gallery, London y David Zwirner, New York Socios corporativos Citi | Manlab | Consultatio Auspiciantes Mercedes-Benz | El Esteco | Paseo Alcorta Soporte tecnológico Samsung Medios asociados La Nación | Telefé Con el apoyo de Knauf | Blomberg | Blue | Stella Artois |Plavicon | Osde | Park Hyatt Buenos Aires |
domingo, 23 de junio de 2013
Monte Fuji Patrimônio Mundial
A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, Ciência e Cultura (Unesco) reconheceu no dia 22 de Junho, o Monte Fuji, ícone do Japão e mundialmente conhecido por seu cone vulcânico coroado de neve, como Patrimônio Mundial, ressaltando a importância da montanha para a cultura japonesa.
O comitê da Unesco reconheceu o Monte Fuji durante seu 37º encontro, realizado em Phnom Penh, no Camboja. Ele foi classificado com o um patrimônio cultural, ao invés de natural. As razões são as seguintes:
O Fujisan (Monte Fuji), com seu cone vulcânico solitário, muitas vezes coroados de neve, que se eleva acima das aldeias, mar e lagos arborizados, inspira artistas e poetas há séculos e é um local de peregrinação – ressaltou a Unesco em seu relatório preparatório para a reunião.
O respeito e o temor inspirados pela forma majestosa do Monte Fuji e sua atividade vulcânica intermitente deram origem a práticas religiosas associadas ao xintoísmo e ao budismo – acrescenta o texto.
A forma cônica quase perfeita do Monte Fuji inspirou os artistas do início do século XIX, que produziram imagens que transcendem culturas e que permitiram a divulgação da montanha em todo o mundo e que tiveram uma profunda influência sobre o desenvolvimento da arte ocidental .
A parte inscrita pela Unesco inclui o cume da montanha e, espalhados pelas encostas até a base, sete santuários, abrigos que recebem peregrinos e um grupo de “fenômenos naturais reverenciados” como fontes, cascatas, pinheiros e árvores moldadas na lava.
O Comitê do Patrimônio Mundial da Unesco deve analisar ainda nesta reunião o registro de 31 sítios naturais e culturais para entrar na lista do patrimônio mundial. Entre os candidatos que esperam receber o reconhecimento pelo seu “valor universal excepcional”, estão a cidade de Agadez (Níger), as vilas Medicis (Itália) e a estação balneária canadense de Red Bay.
"A Grande Onda de Kanagawa", Katsushika Hokusai
Ouça aqui, La Mer, de Claude Debussy, com a Orquestra de Cleveland e regência de Vladimir Ashkenazy
Van Gogh, Degas, Manet, Monet, Gauguin e Seurat, todos esses foram, em algum momento, influenciados pelas xilogravuras “ukiyo-e”, cujo precursor foi Utagawa Hiroshige no século XIX.
O monte Fuji recebe cerca de 300 mil turistas durante os dois meses de verão em que o montanhismo é autorizado e a recomendação de reconhecê-lo como patrimônio pelo Conselho Internacional de Monumentos e Sítios (ICOMOS) está associado ao desejo das autoridades japonesas em aumentar a vigilância para preservar este local de cerca de 70.000 hectares.
O Monte Fuji é o 17º local do Japão a ser inscrito pela Unesco. Além dos monumentos históricos da Antiga Kyoto, o Memorial da Paz em Hiroshima, santuários e templos da cidade de Nikko, os monumentos da antiga capital Nara e o famoso santuário Itsukushima, com o seu “torii” vermelho, já foram reconhecidos.
Fuente: Jojospe- Conexâo Brasil- Japâo
viernes, 21 de junio de 2013
BAE Negocios con China
China apuntala el vínculo con América latina para sostener el comercio bilateral
Argentina aún tiene déficit en el intercambio con el país asiático
Gustavo Girado, especial para BAE INTERNACIONAL
(Consultor y docente universitario)
El comercio exterior de China siguió creciendo en el 2012, aunque menos d el 10% planeado, a pesar de la profundización de la crisis en la eurozona y la debilidad manifiesta en la recuperación económica global que, por el lado de la demanda, supone menores horizontes para la economía china. Aunque el crecimiento de las exportaciones se desaceleró un 7,9% en comparación con el 20,3% del 2011, el nivel de ventas al exterior aseguró la posición de China como el mayor exportador del mundo. Sus importaciones crecieron un 4,3% (un 24,9% en el 2011), convirtiendo a China en el segundo mayor importador global.
El politburó se planteó el objetivo de aumentar el volumen total del comercio exterior en alrededor de un 8% en el 2013. Esto fue escrito en aquel pobre contexto y ante el aumento del proteccionismo comercial, y también señala que “las perspectivas de exportación de China siguen siendo sombrías. El crecimiento económico mundial seguirá siendo lento. La demanda global de las principales economías seguirá siendo débil. Todas las formas de proteccionismo se están reafirmando; el gobierno debe implementar una estrategia de apertura más activa y reaccionar rápidamente para crear nuevas ventajas competitivas, estabilizar y ampliar la cuota de China en el mercado internacional y seguir mejorando su economía abierta”, subraya después. Y es por esto que el año pasado China lanzó unas medidas que incluyen la aceleración del proceso de reembolso de los impuestos a la exportación.
En ese contexto, Latinoamérica se inserta como una de sus regiones más dinámicas para comerciar. Según el FMI, en el 2012 el comercio total entre China y América latina aumentó 8% hasta alcanzar los u$s255.496 millones.
Las ventas chinas a América latina crecieron 11% a u$s131.042 millones, mientras las exportaciones latinoamericanas hacia China aumentaron 5% a u$s124.454 millones (casi la mitad son ventas de Brasil).
Por su parte, la Argentina en el 2012 tuvo un superávit comercial total de poco más de u$s12,6 mil millones, pero con China tuvo un déficit de u$s4.497 millones: le vendió un 16,3% menos y aumentaron sus compras desde allí un 11%, profundizando el desbalance. Sin embargo, creemos que hay justificado optimismo en la relación comercial bilateral, pues a mediados de abril se abrieron dos mercados de productos que constituyen parte de la canasta exportable clásica argentina: maíz y carne bovina, mientras las negociaciones para el ingreso de la alfalfa son promisorias.
Estos eventos políticos se entrelazan con la coyuntura: Forbes destacó que las importaciones chinas de materias primas clave repuntaron en marzo pasado. Entre otros productos, importó 3,84 millones de toneladas de semillas de soja, un alza del 32,4%, lo que impacta positivamente en la balanza comercial y finanzas públicas argentinas. Las consecuencias del crecimiento chino también se aprecian en otro emblema de la economía sudamericana: el vino. China actualmente es el sexto mercado en importancia para el vino argentino, concentrando el 3% de las exportaciones de vino embotellado, pero en el 2002 el 90% de las exportaciones a China estaban concentradas en seis bodegas, y hasta abril del 2013 ya hay 72 bodegas argentinas exportando a la potencia oriental.
Pero, claro, habría un mundo posible más allá de los commodities. A la aprobación de los protocolos que permitirán que laboratorios argentinos exporten embriones y semen bovinos, se suma este junio una misión comercial de empresas argentinas de base científica, que se encuentra en Shanghai y Beijing llevando adelante intensas negociaciones.
El nivel del trabajo de científicos argentinos permite posicionar al país como proveedor y exportador de conocimiento, tecnología y productos con alto valor agregado por su grado de innovación. Las tratativas para la renovación de un acuerdo (swap) contingente de monedas de ambas economías rubrica lo aceitado de la relación bilateral.
Argentina aún tiene déficit en el intercambio con el país asiático
Gustavo Girado, especial para BAE INTERNACIONAL
(Consultor y docente universitario)
El comercio exterior de China siguió creciendo en el 2012, aunque menos d el 10% planeado, a pesar de la profundización de la crisis en la eurozona y la debilidad manifiesta en la recuperación económica global que, por el lado de la demanda, supone menores horizontes para la economía china. Aunque el crecimiento de las exportaciones se desaceleró un 7,9% en comparación con el 20,3% del 2011, el nivel de ventas al exterior aseguró la posición de China como el mayor exportador del mundo. Sus importaciones crecieron un 4,3% (un 24,9% en el 2011), convirtiendo a China en el segundo mayor importador global.
El politburó se planteó el objetivo de aumentar el volumen total del comercio exterior en alrededor de un 8% en el 2013. Esto fue escrito en aquel pobre contexto y ante el aumento del proteccionismo comercial, y también señala que “las perspectivas de exportación de China siguen siendo sombrías. El crecimiento económico mundial seguirá siendo lento. La demanda global de las principales economías seguirá siendo débil. Todas las formas de proteccionismo se están reafirmando; el gobierno debe implementar una estrategia de apertura más activa y reaccionar rápidamente para crear nuevas ventajas competitivas, estabilizar y ampliar la cuota de China en el mercado internacional y seguir mejorando su economía abierta”, subraya después. Y es por esto que el año pasado China lanzó unas medidas que incluyen la aceleración del proceso de reembolso de los impuestos a la exportación.
En ese contexto, Latinoamérica se inserta como una de sus regiones más dinámicas para comerciar. Según el FMI, en el 2012 el comercio total entre China y América latina aumentó 8% hasta alcanzar los u$s255.496 millones.
Las ventas chinas a América latina crecieron 11% a u$s131.042 millones, mientras las exportaciones latinoamericanas hacia China aumentaron 5% a u$s124.454 millones (casi la mitad son ventas de Brasil).
Por su parte, la Argentina en el 2012 tuvo un superávit comercial total de poco más de u$s12,6 mil millones, pero con China tuvo un déficit de u$s4.497 millones: le vendió un 16,3% menos y aumentaron sus compras desde allí un 11%, profundizando el desbalance. Sin embargo, creemos que hay justificado optimismo en la relación comercial bilateral, pues a mediados de abril se abrieron dos mercados de productos que constituyen parte de la canasta exportable clásica argentina: maíz y carne bovina, mientras las negociaciones para el ingreso de la alfalfa son promisorias.
Estos eventos políticos se entrelazan con la coyuntura: Forbes destacó que las importaciones chinas de materias primas clave repuntaron en marzo pasado. Entre otros productos, importó 3,84 millones de toneladas de semillas de soja, un alza del 32,4%, lo que impacta positivamente en la balanza comercial y finanzas públicas argentinas. Las consecuencias del crecimiento chino también se aprecian en otro emblema de la economía sudamericana: el vino. China actualmente es el sexto mercado en importancia para el vino argentino, concentrando el 3% de las exportaciones de vino embotellado, pero en el 2002 el 90% de las exportaciones a China estaban concentradas en seis bodegas, y hasta abril del 2013 ya hay 72 bodegas argentinas exportando a la potencia oriental.
Pero, claro, habría un mundo posible más allá de los commodities. A la aprobación de los protocolos que permitirán que laboratorios argentinos exporten embriones y semen bovinos, se suma este junio una misión comercial de empresas argentinas de base científica, que se encuentra en Shanghai y Beijing llevando adelante intensas negociaciones.
El nivel del trabajo de científicos argentinos permite posicionar al país como proveedor y exportador de conocimiento, tecnología y productos con alto valor agregado por su grado de innovación. Las tratativas para la renovación de un acuerdo (swap) contingente de monedas de ambas economías rubrica lo aceitado de la relación bilateral.
"Teaching Asia through Field Trips and Experimental Learning"
Call for Manuscripts: "Teaching Asia through Field Trips and Experimental
Learning" for EAA: Education About Asia
Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies. Our approximately 1,800 readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Qualified referees evaluate all manuscripts submitted for consideration. Most of our subscribers teach and work in history, the social sciences, or the humanities.
We are developing a special section that will be published in spring 2014 on teaching Asia through field trips and experiential learning. We are not seeking manuscripts where authors address study abroad programs of one semester or longer. We seek articles by secondary school and university survey-level instructors that focus upon a wide range of short term activities including study tours in Asia, visits to Asian communities in North America or elsewhere, field trips to art or history museums, or any assignment or project at the secondary school or university survey level in which students learn about Asia by experiential activities other than exclusively didactic learning (lectures, reading, or film).
Prospective authors should be aware that approximately fifty percent of our readers teach at the undergraduate level and the rest are secondary or middle school teachers. Please consult the EAA guidelines, available on the website under my signature before submitting a manuscript for this special section. Pay particular attention to feature and teaching resources manuscript word-count ranges. Prospective authors are also encouraged to share possible manuscript ideas with me via email. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is November 10, 2013. Prospective authors are welcome to email me at the address below if they have questions.
Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423) 425-2118
e-mail: l-ellington@comcast.netl-ellington@comcast.net
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Web Site http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/
Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies. Our approximately 1,800 readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Qualified referees evaluate all manuscripts submitted for consideration. Most of our subscribers teach and work in history, the social sciences, or the humanities.
We are developing a special section that will be published in spring 2014 on teaching Asia through field trips and experiential learning. We are not seeking manuscripts where authors address study abroad programs of one semester or longer. We seek articles by secondary school and university survey-level instructors that focus upon a wide range of short term activities including study tours in Asia, visits to Asian communities in North America or elsewhere, field trips to art or history museums, or any assignment or project at the secondary school or university survey level in which students learn about Asia by experiential activities other than exclusively didactic learning (lectures, reading, or film).
Prospective authors should be aware that approximately fifty percent of our readers teach at the undergraduate level and the rest are secondary or middle school teachers. Please consult the EAA guidelines, available on the website under my signature before submitting a manuscript for this special section. Pay particular attention to feature and teaching resources manuscript word-count ranges. Prospective authors are also encouraged to share possible manuscript ideas with me via email. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is November 10, 2013. Prospective authors are welcome to email me at the address below if they have questions.
Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423) 425-2118
e-mail: l-ellington@comcast.net
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Web Site http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/
Shinto studies
Dear Colleagues,
Please permit me to announce the formation of an electronic list for
Shinto studies, whether pre-modern, modern or contemporary. The name
of the list is Shinto-ISSA. Here is the list information:
The list carries announcements and discussion relating to the academic
study of Shinto. It also provides information about the activities of
the International Shinto Studies Association (ISSA). ISSA is a
non-profit organization with a legal base in Japan which arranges
seminars and conferences both in Japan and abroad.
We do not expect a lot of traffic, and even if your interest in Shinto
is tangential you may find it worthwhile to join.
The International Shinto Studies Association is known in Japanese as
神道国際学会 and has an academic orientation. (It should be distinguished
from the International Shinto Foundation (ISF).) It is not necessary
to be a member of ISSA to register for the list, which is based at the
University of Marburg in Germany. The main languages used will
presumably be English and Japanese.
If anyone would like to join this list, please send me a simple mail request:
"please subscribe to Shinto-ISSA"
and I will add you to the membership.
With all best wishes, Michael Pye
...............................................................
Professor (em.) of the Study of Religions, University of Marburg
Research Associate in Buddhist Studies, Otani University, Kyoto
Please permit me to announce the formation of an electronic list for
Shinto studies, whether pre-modern, modern or contemporary. The name
of the list is Shinto-ISSA. Here is the list information:
The list carries announcements and discussion relating to the academic
study of Shinto. It also provides information about the activities of
the International Shinto Studies Association (ISSA). ISSA is a
non-profit organization with a legal base in Japan which arranges
seminars and conferences both in Japan and abroad.
We do not expect a lot of traffic, and even if your interest in Shinto
is tangential you may find it worthwhile to join.
The International Shinto Studies Association is known in Japanese as
神道国際学会 and has an academic orientation. (It should be distinguished
from the International Shinto Foundation (ISF).) It is not necessary
to be a member of ISSA to register for the list, which is based at the
University of Marburg in Germany. The main languages used will
presumably be English and Japanese.
If anyone would like to join this list, please send me a simple mail request:
"please subscribe
and I will add you to the membership.
With all best wishes, Michael Pye
...............................................................
Professor (em.) of the Study of Religions, University of Marburg
Research Associate in Buddhist Studies, Otani University, Kyoto
Marburg Journal of Religion: Hisamatsu on Zen Art
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw attention to the latest issue of Marburg Journal of Religion - Volume 17 (2013)(open access, internet only) at:
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/current_issue
It contains two items of interests for Buddhist Studies:
Article:
Hisamatsu Shin’ichi:
"On Zen Art" (republished by permission from The Eastern Buddhist).
The well-known article by Hisamatsu (previously circulated in an unsatisfactory form elsewhere on the net) has been taken through a careful editorial up-date and is now, I believe, an excellent brief resource for students on the subject of Zen art.
The second item is a substantial review:
Yao, Yu-shuang:
Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact
reviewed by Richard Gombrich
I'm sorry that this is a late announcement. The issue has been "up" for some time, but there were a few small technical problems to be resolved.
With all best wishes, Michael Pye
...............................................................
Professor (em.) of the Study of Religions, University of Marburg
Research Associate in Buddhist Studies, Otani University, Kyoto
General Editor, The Eastern Buddhist
...............................................................
For collected essays on method and theory in the study of religions, with case studies, see:
Strategies in the Study of Religions Vols. 1 and 2(2013):
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/184080
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/184339
For the series Eastern Buddhist Voices (three volumes now available), see the website of Equinox Press.
Web Site: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/>
I would like to draw attention to the latest issue of Marburg Journal of Religion - Volume 17 (2013)(open access, internet only) at:
http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb03/ivk/mjr/current_issue
It contains two items of interests for Buddhist Studies:
Article:
Hisamatsu Shin’ichi:
"On Zen Art" (republished by permission from The Eastern Buddhist).
The well-known article by Hisamatsu (previously circulated in an unsatisfactory form elsewhere on the net) has been taken through a careful editorial up-date and is now, I believe, an excellent brief resource for students on the subject of Zen art.
The second item is a substantial review:
Yao, Yu-shuang:
Taiwan's Tzu Chi as Engaged Buddhism: Origins, Organization, Appeal and Social Impact
reviewed by Richard Gombrich
I'm sorry that this is a late announcement. The issue has been "up" for some time, but there were a few small technical problems to be resolved.
With all best wishes, Michael Pye
...............................................................
Professor (em.) of the Study of Religions, University of Marburg
Research Associate in Buddhist Studies, Otani University, Kyoto
General Editor, The Eastern Buddhist
...............................................................
For collected essays on method and theory in the study of religions, with case studies, see:
Strategies in the Study of Religions Vols. 1 and 2(2013):
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/184080
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/184339
For the series Eastern Buddhist Voices (three volumes now available), see the website of Equinox Press.
Web Site: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/>
miércoles, 19 de junio de 2013
International Symposium on Religious Performance in East Asia, University of Illinois
The University of Illinois will host an international symposium, “Religious
Performance, City and Country in East Asia,” October 9-10, 2013, at Levis Center
of the Urbana-Champaign Campus. For details concerning the event, including
registration and schedule, see below.
Brian Ruppert
University of Illinois
This conference brings together leading scholars in the field from North America and Japan for a two-day symposium, October 9-10, 2013 (Levis Center), to examine the relationship between metropole and rural religious performance by drawing a set of clear lines of liturgical practice in the East Asia case, with special reference to Japan. The keynote speakers will be Professors Matsuo Kōichi, National Museum of Japanese History, and Haruo Shirane, Columbia University. First, we pay attention to the position of medieval Japanese religious performance vis-à-vis continental East Asia. What were the ritual and cultural flows that informed the development of medieval Japanese Buddhist and other religious performance (Kami worship, Shugendō [mountain asceticism])? Second, we consider the character and movement of a series of religious performances in the Japanese isles. What were the producers and audiences of these performances? How, moreover, were these performative modes translated between groups in the metrapole and countryside? Third, how did performance genres such as divine dance (kagura), visual didactic performance (etoki), and biwa lute playing influence religious performance and reception through their mixture of multiple media? Finally, how did the mobility of performers and media influence the development of religious performance? That is, how did the travel of the monk Ennin to China influence his production of shōmyō chanting in Japan? What does archeological study tell us about the movement of Pure Land Buddhist performative practices? How did performances of Kumano believers and Shugendō practitioners transmit or otherwise transform their practices in currents between metropole and mountainside? Furthermore, how were textual-performative practices related to temple arts and ritual transmission in the city and country?
Registration is free but required (contact ruppertshogyo@gmail.com) since there is limited seating. Booklets with the full lectures by participants, including translations into Japanese and English, will be provided to all registrants at the event; discussants, with the exception of Professor Matsuo, will comment in English, and discussion will be in both English and Japanese. Japanese participants will present in Japanese.
Religious Performance, City and Country in East Asia
Schedule
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
9:00-11:45 AM Public Screening and Discussion of the Documentary “Divine Dancing (Kagura) to The Chaotic Deities of Hiba”
Public Screening and Discussion (Levis): “Divine Dancing (Kagura) to The Chaotic Deities of Hiba: Faith and Countryside” (2012).
Discussants: Matsuo Kōichi, Director, Ronald Toby (University of Illinois), and David Plath (University of Illinois)
10:35 Intermission
10:50-Noon
Biwa and Etoki: Performance and Lecture
Biwa Lute and Visual-Didactic Preaching Performance:
Bakawa Tooru, Buddhist monk
Hisano Toshihiko: “Visual-Didactic Preaching: Its History and Social Milieux”
Discussant: Elizabeth Oyler (UI, EALC), Megan McLaughlin (UI, History)
1:30 PM-3:15 PM: Keynote Addresses (Levis):
Matsuo Kōichi (N. Museum of J. History): “Japanese Buddhist Rites and Performance: Transmission and History”
Haruo Shirane (Columbia U.): “ Japanese Performing Arts, Demons, and The Pacification of Angry Spirits”
3:30-5:30 PM: Session 1 (Levis): “Japanese Buddhism in East Asia: Research History and Contemporary Issues”
Arami Hiroshi (Hiroshima U.) “Religious Ritual and Literature in 9th-10th century East Asia”
Uejima Susumu (Kyoto Prefectural University) “Re-visioning ‘Japanese Buddhism’ in East Asian Buddhist History”
David Quinter (U. Alberta) “Eison’s (1201-1290) Prince Shōtoku (ca. 574-ca. 622) Images: Visually Performative
Prayer, East Asian Kingship, and the Construction of Japanese Precepts Tradition”
Discussant: Alexander Mayer (UI, Religion), Robert Tierney (UI, EALC, CWL), Anne Burkus-Chasson (UI, Art History)
Thursday, October 10, 2013
9:30 – 11:50 AM: Session 2 (Levis): “Early and Medieval Religious Ritual and Performance: Between City and Country”
Abe Yasuro (Nagoya U.): “Medieval Religious Ritual, Text, and the Performance of the Senses”
Muraki Jirō (N. Museum of J. History) “Archaeological Study of Pure Land Buddhism in City and Countryside”
Elizabeth Oyler (UI) : “The Phantom Capital in the Noh Plays Nue and Yorimasa”
Chikamoto Kensuke (Tsukuba U.) “Religious Policies and Temple Arts in the Late Ancient Period”
Discussant: Brian Ruppert and Rodney Wilson (UI)
1:15-3:15 PM: Session 3 (Levis): “Combinatory Religious Performance”
Furukawa Motoya (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum): “Kumano Belief in Eastern Japan”
Kawasaki Takeshi (Shūjitsu U.) “Shugendō and Local Culture”
Ikumi Kaminishi (Tufts U.) “The Butsumyō-e ceremony: a means for pacifying hell in Kitano Tenjin emaki”
Daitō Takaaki (Kokugakuin U.) “The ‘Shintō’ Nakatomi Purification Performance in Medieval Buddhist Temples”
Discussant: Heather Blair (U. Indiana)
3: 30-5:30 PM: Session 4 (Levis): “Medieval Religion and Culture”
Brian Ruppert (UI) “ Sacred works (Shōgyō) and Religious Performance in Late Medieval Japan: The Monk Chō’is Networks and Ninnaji Liturgical Practice”
Michael Jamentz (Kyoto U.) “Sōshō’s copy of the ‘Bodhisattva Fugen Liturgy’ and the Medieval Buddhist Audience”
Abe Mika (Wako U.) “The Cleveland/Chicago Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi scrolls and Pure Land Buddhist Textual Performance”
Discussant: Elizabeth Oyler (UI)
This symposium is part of “Exchanges and Regional Activities of East Asian Religions” (「東アジアの宗教をめぐる交流と地域的展開」) and “Changes and Exchange in East Asian Religions” (「東アジアの宗教をめぐる交流と変容」), collaborative research groups which have been funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The event is also prominently sponsored by the University of Illinois School of Language, Culture, and Linguistics, the National Museum of Japanese History, Nagoya University, the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Religion, Program in Medieval Studies, and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.
Brian Ruppert
University of Illinois
This conference brings together leading scholars in the field from North America and Japan for a two-day symposium, October 9-10, 2013 (Levis Center), to examine the relationship between metropole and rural religious performance by drawing a set of clear lines of liturgical practice in the East Asia case, with special reference to Japan. The keynote speakers will be Professors Matsuo Kōichi, National Museum of Japanese History, and Haruo Shirane, Columbia University. First, we pay attention to the position of medieval Japanese religious performance vis-à-vis continental East Asia. What were the ritual and cultural flows that informed the development of medieval Japanese Buddhist and other religious performance (Kami worship, Shugendō [mountain asceticism])? Second, we consider the character and movement of a series of religious performances in the Japanese isles. What were the producers and audiences of these performances? How, moreover, were these performative modes translated between groups in the metrapole and countryside? Third, how did performance genres such as divine dance (kagura), visual didactic performance (etoki), and biwa lute playing influence religious performance and reception through their mixture of multiple media? Finally, how did the mobility of performers and media influence the development of religious performance? That is, how did the travel of the monk Ennin to China influence his production of shōmyō chanting in Japan? What does archeological study tell us about the movement of Pure Land Buddhist performative practices? How did performances of Kumano believers and Shugendō practitioners transmit or otherwise transform their practices in currents between metropole and mountainside? Furthermore, how were textual-performative practices related to temple arts and ritual transmission in the city and country?
Registration is free but required (contact ruppertshogyo@gmail.com) since there is limited seating. Booklets with the full lectures by participants, including translations into Japanese and English, will be provided to all registrants at the event; discussants, with the exception of Professor Matsuo, will comment in English, and discussion will be in both English and Japanese. Japanese participants will present in Japanese.
Religious Performance, City and Country in East Asia
Schedule
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
9:00-11:45 AM Public Screening and Discussion of the Documentary “Divine Dancing (Kagura) to The Chaotic Deities of Hiba”
Public Screening and Discussion (Levis): “Divine Dancing (Kagura) to The Chaotic Deities of Hiba: Faith and Countryside” (2012).
Discussants: Matsuo Kōichi, Director, Ronald Toby (University of Illinois), and David Plath (University of Illinois)
10:35 Intermission
10:50-Noon
Biwa and Etoki: Performance and Lecture
Biwa Lute and Visual-Didactic Preaching Performance:
Bakawa Tooru, Buddhist monk
Hisano Toshihiko: “Visual-Didactic Preaching: Its History and Social Milieux”
Discussant: Elizabeth Oyler (UI, EALC), Megan McLaughlin (UI, History)
1:30 PM-3:15 PM: Keynote Addresses (Levis):
Matsuo Kōichi (N. Museum of J. History): “Japanese Buddhist Rites and Performance: Transmission and History”
Haruo Shirane (Columbia U.): “ Japanese Performing Arts, Demons, and The Pacification of Angry Spirits”
3:30-5:30 PM: Session 1 (Levis): “Japanese Buddhism in East Asia: Research History and Contemporary Issues”
Arami Hiroshi (Hiroshima U.) “Religious Ritual and Literature in 9th-10th century East Asia”
Uejima Susumu (Kyoto Prefectural University) “Re-visioning ‘Japanese Buddhism’ in East Asian Buddhist History”
David Quinter (U. Alberta) “Eison’s (1201-1290) Prince Shōtoku (ca. 574-ca. 622) Images: Visually Performative
Prayer, East Asian Kingship, and the Construction of Japanese Precepts Tradition”
Discussant: Alexander Mayer (UI, Religion), Robert Tierney (UI, EALC, CWL), Anne Burkus-Chasson (UI, Art History)
Thursday, October 10, 2013
9:30 – 11:50 AM: Session 2 (Levis): “Early and Medieval Religious Ritual and Performance: Between City and Country”
Abe Yasuro (Nagoya U.): “Medieval Religious Ritual, Text, and the Performance of the Senses”
Muraki Jirō (N. Museum of J. History) “Archaeological Study of Pure Land Buddhism in City and Countryside”
Elizabeth Oyler (UI) : “The Phantom Capital in the Noh Plays Nue and Yorimasa”
Chikamoto Kensuke (Tsukuba U.) “Religious Policies and Temple Arts in the Late Ancient Period”
Discussant: Brian Ruppert and Rodney Wilson (UI)
1:15-3:15 PM: Session 3 (Levis): “Combinatory Religious Performance”
Furukawa Motoya (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum): “Kumano Belief in Eastern Japan”
Kawasaki Takeshi (Shūjitsu U.) “Shugendō and Local Culture”
Ikumi Kaminishi (Tufts U.) “The Butsumyō-e ceremony: a means for pacifying hell in Kitano Tenjin emaki”
Daitō Takaaki (Kokugakuin U.) “The ‘Shintō’ Nakatomi Purification Performance in Medieval Buddhist Temples”
Discussant: Heather Blair (U. Indiana)
3: 30-5:30 PM: Session 4 (Levis): “Medieval Religion and Culture”
Brian Ruppert (UI) “ Sacred works (Shōgyō) and Religious Performance in Late Medieval Japan: The Monk Chō’is Networks and Ninnaji Liturgical Practice”
Michael Jamentz (Kyoto U.) “Sōshō’s copy of the ‘Bodhisattva Fugen Liturgy’ and the Medieval Buddhist Audience”
Abe Mika (Wako U.) “The Cleveland/Chicago Yūzū Nenbutsu Engi scrolls and Pure Land Buddhist Textual Performance”
Discussant: Elizabeth Oyler (UI)
This symposium is part of “Exchanges and Regional Activities of East Asian Religions” (「東アジアの宗教をめぐる交流と地域的展開」) and “Changes and Exchange in East Asian Religions” (「東アジアの宗教をめぐる交流と変容」), collaborative research groups which have been funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The event is also prominently sponsored by the University of Illinois School of Language, Culture, and Linguistics, the National Museum of Japanese History, Nagoya University, the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Religion, Program in Medieval Studies, and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies.
Manuscripts and Writing in Buddhist Monasteries
Dear colleagues,
may I draw your attention to the following panel to be organized by Stefan Baums (Munich) and Ingo Strauch (Lausanne) at the next IABS conference 2014 in Vienna (see information below).
Those of you who are interested in participating, please *contact* Stefan Baums (baums@lmu.de) or Ingo Strauch (ingo.strauch@unil.ch) *as soon as possible*.
The web submission deadline for the conference is fixed at November 1st. Therefore we would like to get your *abstracts by October 20th*.
Best regards
Ingo Strauch (Lausanne)
*Manuscripts and Writing in Buddhist Monasteries: New Discoveries and Research*
Our knowledge of the literature and doctrines of early Buddhism has been greatly improved by recent manuscript discoveries, especially in the northwestern regions of South Asia (ancient Gandha-ra). At the same time, these oldest Indian manuscripts, among them many unknown and incompletely preserved texts, raise many new questions that can only be answered by detailed studies comparing this corpus to other Buddhist manuscript traditions. Among other topics, this concerns their modes of production and use, their relationship to oral modes of knowledge reproduction, and in general their /Sitz im Leben/. While the majority of the manuscripts in question contain religious texts, secular texts that were used by Buddhist monastic communities -- such as administrative and legal documents -- will also have to form part of this study. This panel will therefore present results from the ongoing research on the earliest Buddhist manuscripts and confront these with insights from the study of other Buddhist manuscript traditions. The intended geographical scope of the panel will extend beyond the South Asian cultural area to historical and contemporary manuscript traditions of Central and East Asia, Southeast Asia and Tibet.
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Sanskrit et Études Bouddhiques
Université de Lausanne
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may I draw your attention to the following panel to be organized by Stefan Baums (Munich) and Ingo Strauch (Lausanne) at the next IABS conference 2014 in Vienna (see information below).
Those of you who are interested in participating, please *contact* Stefan Baums (baums@lmu.de) or Ingo Strauch (ingo.strauch@unil.ch) *as soon as possible*.
The web submission deadline for the conference is fixed at November 1st. Therefore we would like to get your *abstracts by October 20th*.
Best regards
Ingo Strauch (Lausanne)
*Manuscripts and Writing in Buddhist Monasteries: New Discoveries and Research*
Our knowledge of the literature and doctrines of early Buddhism has been greatly improved by recent manuscript discoveries, especially in the northwestern regions of South Asia (ancient Gandha-ra). At the same time, these oldest Indian manuscripts, among them many unknown and incompletely preserved texts, raise many new questions that can only be answered by detailed studies comparing this corpus to other Buddhist manuscript traditions. Among other topics, this concerns their modes of production and use, their relationship to oral modes of knowledge reproduction, and in general their /Sitz im Leben/. While the majority of the manuscripts in question contain religious texts, secular texts that were used by Buddhist monastic communities -- such as administrative and legal documents -- will also have to form part of this study. This panel will therefore present results from the ongoing research on the earliest Buddhist manuscripts and confront these with insights from the study of other Buddhist manuscript traditions. The intended geographical scope of the panel will extend beyond the South Asian cultural area to historical and contemporary manuscript traditions of Central and East Asia, Southeast Asia and Tibet.
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Please, use for further mails MY NEW EMAIL ADDRESS ingo.strauch@unil.ch.
Prof. Dr. Ingo Strauch
Sanskrit et Études Bouddhiques
Université de Lausanne
Anthropole 4118
CH-1015 Lausanne
Phone ++41-(0)21-692-3005
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martes, 18 de junio de 2013
Asian Currents
The June 2013 issue of "Asian Currents" from the
Asian Studies Association of Australia is now available from the ASAA web site
at http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/ac/2013/asian-currents-13-06.pdf
In This Issue
The index page listing all available issues is at
http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/asian_current_issues.html
regards
--
Stephen Meatheringham
ASAA Web Coordinator
In This Issue
- Western voices unheard as human rights continue to decline in Sri Lanka(Sandy Gordon)
- The emptiness at the heart of Xi Jinping’s China Dream (Gerry Groot)
- Indonesian human rights report on 1965 killings: a bridge too far (Ken Setiawan)
- Malaysia’s election result—no surprise to the knowledgeable (Clive Kessler)
- Pakistan’s hopes rest with third-chance prime minister (Alicia Mollaun)
- North Korea’s ‘rational’ belligerence (Benajamin Habib)
- Nepal’s democratic Maoists move toward economic transformation(Ramesh Sunam, Keshab Goutam)
- Hindi as a priority language (Richard Iles)
- Researching Buddhism in Australia (Anna Halafoff and Ruth Fitzpatrick)
- Books on Asia
- Bulletin board
- Coming events
The index page listing all available issues is at
http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/asian_current_issues.html
regards
--
Stephen Meatheringham
ASAA Web Coordinator
lunes, 17 de junio de 2013
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Vikramasila Foundation and Palden Sakya Centers
Special Event: Join us for a special day with
His Holiness Sakya Trizin
| A day-long
program of teachings, refuge*, oral reading transmissions, and "Ka’go" for
personal blessings We are delighted to announce that His Holiness the Sakya Trizin will give a special public teaching to all — students, families, and friends alike — at Tsechen Kunchab Ling in Walden, New York. This is a unique opportunity to receive teachings of Buddha with blessings and oral reading transmissions on various sutras from one of the great living masters of Tibetan Buddhism, and to experience His Holiness’s kindness and wisdom in an extraordinarily personal way. Everyone, including children, is invited to participate in this day-long event (lunch included). There will be a special meeting with Her Eminence Gyalyum Kusho La, His Holiness’s wife, and Her Eminence Jetsun Kusho La. Participants will also have a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful temple grounds. There is ample space for children to walk around and be outdoors. Date, Time and Location Sunday, June 23, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 12 Edmunds Lane, Walden, NY 12586 Fees & Registration Adults: $45 | Children 13–16: $25 | 12 and under free (Lunch included) Register online vikramasila.org using PayPal (if you would like to take refuge* for the first time, list your name(s) in the PayPal comment box.) If you would like to pay by check, mail to: Vikramasila Foundation, 289 Brookside Ave., Cresskill, NJ 07626. Make sure to include your contact info for registration and/or bus transportation reservations and names of people taking refuge*. Transportation Charter bus, per seat: $20 | Reserve your bus seat by Friday, June 14 A chartered bus will depart from the New York City Vikramasila Center at 7:00 a.m. and will return to the Center by 7:00 p.m.. Please arrive at 4 West 101 St. (Central Park West) no later than 6:45 a.m. Please add your transportation to your registration fees. Program 9:00-9:50 Meditation 10:00-12:00 Refuge*, Heart Sutra and Samantabhadra Prayer oral reading transmissions, teachings on the Parting from the Four Attachments, and Ka’go for protection blessings. Noon Lunch (served for everyone) 2:00-2:30 Meditation and Heart Sutra reading 2:30-3:30 Afternoon talk on excerpts from the Jewel Garland by Chögyal Phagpa 3:30-4:30 Her Eminence Gyalyum Kusho La and Her Eminence Jestun Kusho La, mothers of designate masters and leaders of Tibetan Buddhism, will share their unique wisdom and experiences from which we all can benefit as parents and elders. This session will be in the form of question and answers. 4:30-4:45 Dedication prayers *His Holiness will offer refuge to those students who have not taken refuge before. Email paldensakya@vikramasila.org with your name. For more information, please e-mail paldensakya@vikramasila.org or call 212-866-4339. | ||
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sábado, 15 de junio de 2013
miércoles, 12 de junio de 2013
5 Korean Universities Make Top 20 in Asian Rankings
Five Korean universities made it to this year's top 20 in the Asian University Rankings, which is compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds and the Chosun Ilbo.
Seoul National University came fourth in Asia, ahead of Beijing University in fifth and the University of Tokyo in ninth.
This is the fifth year the rankings have been released, and Korean universities' have consistently improved their standing.
This year's rankings evaluated 457 universities in 16 countries. It is the first time that five Korean universities were placed in the top 20. In 2009, three were included, and four in 2010 to 2012
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) ranked sixth and seventh, and Yonsei University and Korea University came in 16th and 19th.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was once again at the top, the same as last year, and National University of Singapore and University of Hong Kong shared second place. The Chinese University of Hong Kong shared seventh place with POSTECH, and Kyoto University was 10th.
Ben Sowter of QS said that the improvement of Korea's top universities over the last several years along with that of Chinese universities has been "a topic of conversation around the world."
The average ranking of SNU, KAIST, POSTECH, Yonsei University, and Korea University taken together was 18th in Asia in 2009 but it jumped to 10th this year.
While the global ranking of top Korean universities is soaring, the number of those in 100th to 200th place is dwindling. There were 44 Korean universities in the top 200 in 2009 but only 33 this year. The competitiveness of mid- to upper-middle ranked universities is evidently falling against those in other Asian countries.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was once again at the top, the same as last year, and National University of Singapore and University of Hong Kong shared second place. The Chinese University of Hong Kong shared seventh place with POSTECH, and Kyoto University was 10th.
Ben Sowter of QS said that the improvement of Korea's top universities over the last several years along with that of Chinese universities has been "a topic of conversation around the world."
The average ranking of SNU, KAIST, POSTECH, Yonsei University, and Korea University taken together was 18th in Asia in 2009 but it jumped to 10th this year.
While the global ranking of top Korean universities is soaring, the number of those in 100th to 200th place is dwindling. There were 44 Korean universities in the top 200 in 2009 but only 33 this year. The competitiveness of mid- to upper-middle ranked universities is evidently falling against those in other Asian countries.
nglishnews@chosun.com / Jun. 12, 2013 13:29 KST
"Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions Program"
Dear Colleagues,
In a recent note Brian Victoria has raised the issue of student health
and safety this fall in Japan.I would like you to know that Antioch
Education Abroad has taken the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident very
seriously since it occurred in 2011.We continue to monitor the situation
in Japan extensively, and this year we have determined that it is indeed
safe for our students to attend the Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions
program in Kyoto in the fall.
In our review of the situation Antioch Education Abroad has used
information from the US State Department, the Center for Disease
Control, the World Health Organization, and the International Atomic
Energy Commission as well as public news sources.In addition we have
consulted our sister institutions who send students to Japan, and found
that none of the programs planned for American students in Japan this
year will be cancelled for reasons related to the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear accident.We are confident that our decision to continue the
Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions program in Kyoto this fall is
responsible and takes seriously the health and safety of our students.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Dr. George
Klonos who is the new Director of the Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions
program.He is a Japanese Religions scholar who recently completed his
doctorate from the Religion Department at Stanford University. His
research interests include Shugendō, Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, the
ecology of religion, sacred geography, asceticism in East Asian
traditions, and elements of Daoism in Japan.Dr. Klonos has taught
Japanese Religion courses to undergraduates at Stanford as well as
co-led a study abroad program in Kyoto. We are very happy to welcome him
to Antioch, and are confident that with his guidance our students will
flourish in Kyoto.
With Best Wishes,
Robert Pryor
Director
Buddhist Studies in India Program
Antioch Education Abroad
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio
45387 USA
In a recent note Brian Victoria has raised the issue of student health
and safety this fall in Japan.I would like you to know that Antioch
Education Abroad has taken the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident very
seriously since it occurred in 2011.We continue to monitor the situation
in Japan extensively, and this year we have determined that it is indeed
safe for our students to attend the Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions
program in Kyoto in the fall.
In our review of the situation Antioch Education Abroad has used
information from the US State Department, the Center for Disease
Control, the World Health Organization, and the International Atomic
Energy Commission as well as public news sources.In addition we have
consulted our sister institutions who send students to Japan, and found
that none of the programs planned for American students in Japan this
year will be cancelled for reasons related to the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear accident.We are confident that our decision to continue the
Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions program in Kyoto this fall is
responsible and takes seriously the health and safety of our students.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to Dr. George
Klonos who is the new Director of the Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions
program.He is a Japanese Religions scholar who recently completed his
doctorate from the Religion Department at Stanford University. His
research interests include Shugendō, Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, the
ecology of religion, sacred geography, asceticism in East Asian
traditions, and elements of Daoism in Japan.Dr. Klonos has taught
Japanese Religion courses to undergraduates at Stanford as well as
co-led a study abroad program in Kyoto. We are very happy to welcome him
to Antioch, and are confident that with his guidance our students will
flourish in Kyoto.
With Best Wishes,
Robert Pryor
Director
Buddhist Studies in India Program
Antioch Education Abroad
900 Dayton Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio
45387 USA
Summer school announcement
Dear colleagues,
please note the following announcement of summer school programme of
interest, the well-known Leiden Languages Summer School, which contains an
always
very stimulating Indological Programme:
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/programmes-2013/indological-programme.html
,
with Buddhist content this year (as often in the past), this time from
Vincent Tournier.
For the whole summer school, here is the announcement from my colleagues:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are happy to announce the eighth edition of the*** Leiden Summer School
in Languages and Linguistics* which will be held from*** 15 July – 26 July
2013* at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.
The Summer School offers a number of courses on a wide range of subjects in
the field of languages and linguistics.
This year, the Summer School will consist of nine programmes, including
courses for beginners as well as for advanced students, taught by
internationally renowned specialists:
· *** Germanic Programme*
· * Indo-European Programme for beginners*
· * Indo-European Programme for advanced students*
· *** Indological Programme*
· * Iranian Programme*
· * Language Description Programme*
· * Romance Languages Programme*
· * Semitic Programme*
· * Russian Programme*
In addition to these programmes, a Tashelhiyt Berber Language
Course<
http://hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/programmes-2013/tashelhiyt-berber-language-course-.html
>
will
be taught daily from 14.00 to 15.30 h.
For more information and registration, visit: ***
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/*<
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/>
.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Lubotsky (director)
Tina Janssen (organizer)
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Leiden University
PO Box 9515
NL-2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
summerschool@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
The Netherlands
copies of my publications may be found at
http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/silk_publications.html
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please note the following announcement of summer school programme of
interest, the well-known Leiden Languages Summer School, which contains an
always
very stimulating Indological Programme:
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/programmes-2013/indological-programme.html
,
with Buddhist content this year (as often in the past), this time from
Vincent Tournier.
For the whole summer school, here is the announcement from my colleagues:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are happy to announce the eighth edition of the*** Leiden Summer School
in Languages and Linguistics* which will be held from*** 15 July – 26 July
2013* at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.
The Summer School offers a number of courses on a wide range of subjects in
the field of languages and linguistics.
This year, the Summer School will consist of nine programmes, including
courses for beginners as well as for advanced students, taught by
internationally renowned specialists:
· *** Germanic Programme*
· * Indo-European Programme for beginners*
· * Indo-European Programme for advanced students*
· *** Indological Programme*
· * Iranian Programme*
· * Language Description Programme*
· * Romance Languages Programme*
· * Semitic Programme*
· * Russian Programme*
In addition to these programmes, a Tashelhiyt Berber Language
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will
be taught daily from 14.00 to 15.30 h.
For more information and registration, visit: ***
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/*<
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/summerschool/>
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Yours sincerely,
Alexander Lubotsky (director)
Tina Janssen (organizer)
Comparative Indo-European Linguistics
Leiden University
PO Box 9515
NL-2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
summerschool@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
The Netherlands
copies of my publications may be found at
http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/silk_publications.html
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