Colleagues,
On behalf of the North American District of the
International
Association of Shin Buddhist Studies (IASBS), I would like to
bring to
your attention the following events at this year's annual meeting
of
the American Academy of Religion in Baltimore.
The IASBS was
recently granted Related Scholarly Organization status
with the AAR. We hope
to use this new status to both help attract
attention to our organization
among scholars interested in Pure Land
Buddhist Studies and to expand our
organization's research into Pure
Land studies beyond Japan.
To
celebrate our new status as RSO, we are hosting a reception on
Saturday,
November 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Royal Sonesta
Hotel, Whitehall
Ballroom North. Please join us for hors d'oeuvres and
drinks. All are
welcome.
Secondly, we will be hosting a panel presentation on Sunday,
November
24 at 2 p.m. at the Marriott Inner Harbor, Grand Ballroom West.
The
panel, "(Re)imagining the Founder: Shinran in Modern
Japanese
History," focuses on modern interpretations of Shinran and
includes
the following panelists:
Orion Klautau, University of
Heidelberg
A World Unifying Prophet: Shinran and Nationalism in Imperial
Japan
Ryan Ward, Meiji University
Shinran and the Fictive
Imagination
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, University of Iowa
For Myself,
Shinran Alone: The Separation of Shinran and Shinshū in
Kyoto School
Philosophy
Daniel Friedrich, McMaster University
Conjuring the
founder: Images of Shinran in Contemporary Shin
Buddhist
Practice
Responding:
Makoto Hayashi, Aichi Gakuin
University
Please join us for both the reception and panel. See you in
Baltimore!
Regards,
Scott Mitchell
--
Scott A.
Mitchell
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Institute of Buddhist
Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union
Editorial
Committee, Pacific World Journal
scott@shin-ibs.edu
www.shin-ibs.edu
scottmitchell.shin-ibs.edu
510-809-1449
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