Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are happy to announce an upcoming
conference titled,
"Bordering the Borderless: Faces of Modern Buddhism in
East Asia"
Time and Place: October 4th – 5th, 2013, 501 McClendon Tower,
Duke University
For more information: http://religiondepartment.duke.edu/
Co-organizers:
Richard Jaffe and Hwansoo Kim (Duke University), Sungtaek
Cho (Korea
University, Seoul Korea), and Jin Y. Park (American
University)
Sponsors: Duke’s Asian Pacific Studies
Institute
(APSI) and Religion and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
departments;
Research Institute for Korean Studies at Korea University
(RIKS); The Anguk Seon
Center Foundation; Young Do Cultural Center
Foundation; Duke's Office of Global Strategy and Programs; Triangle
Center
for Japanese Studies; Carolina Asia Center; Duke Korea
Forum
Timetable
October 4 (Friday)
9:30-11:30: Panel
1
Justin Ritzinger (Uni. of
Miami): “Populating
the Lesser
Vehicle: The Chinese Buddhist Encounter with “Hinayanists” in the
Republican
Period.”
Richard
Jaffe (Duke Uni.): “Kawaguchi
Ekai, India, and the
Globalization of Japanese Buddhism.”
Brooks
Jessup (Free
University
of Berlin): “Who Will
Enter Hell?”: Chinese
Buddhist Elites
Under
Japanese Wartime Occupation, 1937-1945.”
Okuyama
Naoji (Koyasan Uni.):
“Japanese ‘Students
in India’ of the Meiji era: The Monastic Lives of Shaku
Kōzen and Shaku Sōen in
Colonial Ceylon.”
Discussant:
Barbara
Ambros (Uni. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
13:00-14:40:
Panel 2
Francesca Tarocco (New York
Uni.): “Dharma Frames: Looking at
Photography and Chinese Buddhism.”
Justin McDaniel (Uni.
of
Pennsylvania): “Chinese
Collectors of Southeast Asian Buddhist
Art.”
Hwansoo Kim (Duke Uni.): “Valorization of the
Koryŏ Canon (Koryŏ
taejanggyŏng) in
the Context of Colonialism,
1910–1945.”
Amy
Holmes-Tagchungdarpa (Uni.
of Alabama):“The
Buddhist Other: Internal
Orientalism, Nation Building, and Pan-Asian
Imaginings of Tibetan Buddhism in
the Photography of Zhuang
Xueben.”
Discussant: Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State
Uni.)
15:00-16:40: Panel 3
Jin Park (American Uni.): “Burdens of
Modernity:
Formation of Buddhist Philosophy in Paek Sŏnguk and Inoue
Enryō.”
Charles
Jones (the Catholic Uni. of America):
“The
Establishment of Chinese Ordination Platforms in Taiwan during the
Japanese
period 1895-1945.”
Yoshinaga
Shin'ichi
(Maizuru
National College of Technology): “English language Buddhist
periodicals in
Japan from Bijou of Asia to Young East.”
Discussant:
Pierce Salguero (Penn State Uni.)
October 5
(Saturday)
10:00-11:40: Panel 4
Hoshino Seiji (Kokugaku
Uni.):
“(In)Expedient Others: Visions of Asia in
Modern Buddhism in
Japan."
Namlin Hur (Uni.
of British Columbia): “A Buddhist Triangle of
Progressivism in Late Nineteenth-Century Korea: Yi
Tong’in, T’ak Chŏngsik,
Kim Okkyun, and their Japanese Honganji Connections."
Mark Nathan
(University
of Buffalo): “Buddhist Missions and Dharma
Transmissions:
Propagation as Paradigm in Modern Korean and East Asian
Buddhism.”
Discussant: Lauren Leve (Uni. of
North Carolina, Chapel
Hill)
13:00-14:00: Keynote
Speech-Brian Bocking (Uni. College
Cork)
14:15-15:30: Roundtable
Discussion-Inken
Prohl (Uni.
Heidelberg)
Sincerely,
Hwansoo
=================
Hwansoo
Ilmee Kim
Assistant
Professor
The Department of Religion and
the
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department
Duke University
Fax (919)
660-3530
