Dear Colleagues,
Research mini-cluster "Negotiating Religions" (MC 3) based at the Cluster
of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (University of
Heidelberg) is pleased to announce the following event. We look forward to
see many of you there!
On behalf of the organisers,
Dr Anna Andreeva
Research Fellow and Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
University of Heidelberg
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Conference
"Putative Purities: Transcultural Dimensions of Master Narratives in
Religion"
Date: 16th – 18th of December, 2013
Venue: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Hauptstraße
242, D-69117 Heidelberg
ABSTRACT
Master narratives provide collectivities with a coherent vision of their history and a sense of homogeneity. They are continually reiterated and stabilized constructions which tend to mask particularity and bias behind universalized representations of objective truth. Especially in postmodern and postcolonial critique, master narratives have been problema-tized in
view of their homogenizing as well as exclusionary potential.
But beyond such critique, master narratives also offer a fruitful avenue to investigate dynamics involved in, and issuing from, intense cultural contact, and the possibilities of representing, performing and materializing cultural alterity in their framework.
With a view towards transcultural dimensions involved in establishing, supporting and subverting master narratives, this conference places a special focus on religion: on narratives which support, challenge or displace religious identities, on their own or possibly also in synergy with other forms of collective identity (culture, race, nation).
The conference “Putative Purities” is conceptualized and organized by the research group “Negotiating Religion in a Transcultural Framework” (MC3) of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context – the Dynamics of Transculturality” of the University of Heidelberg."
PROGRAMME
Monday, December 16th
13:30 Welcome address
Session 1: Inventing Orthodoxy and Homogeneity
14:00-14:45 Nicholas Vogt: “Sloughing Off the Shang: The Conflicted Zhou
Legacy and Narratives of Early Chinese Ritual”.
14:45-15:30 Giulia Gebke: “The Ideology of Purity-of-Blood. A Master
Narrative in Early Modern Spain”.
Session 2: Buddhist Narratives and Identity
16:00-16:45 Sven Bretfeld: “The Buddha's Treasure Houses: Sri Lanka and
Tibet as Subjects of Religious Master Narratives”
16:45-17:30 Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya: “Transculturalism in the Peace
Narratives of Japanese Buddhism”
Tuesday, December 17th
Session 3: A Taxonomy of Difference
10:00-10:45 Federico Squarcini: “In the Beginning was Purity. Shaping and
Sharing Master Narratives on Origins in Sanskrit Metrical Dharmaśāstra”.
10:45-11:30 Sita Steckel: “Contrasting, Comparing, Connecting.
Thirteenth-century Christian Polemics and their Contributions to a
Discourse of Religious Diversity”.
Session 4: Ordering the Past
12:00-12:45 Alexandra Walsham: “Making a Master Narrative: Memory, The
Reformation and Modern Academic Writing”
12:45-13:30 Erik Schicketanz: “The Formation of Modern Chinese Buddhist
Historical Narratives Under Japanese Influence”
Session 5: Translating Narratives
14:30-15:15 Stuart Lachs: “Public Expectations Meet A Self-Fulfilling
Prophesy: A Contemporary Zen Autobiography”
15:15-16:00 Antje Flüchter/Giulia Nardini: “Christianity between Orthodoxy
and Ambiguity. The Jesuit Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656) Translating between
the Worlds“
Session 6: Nation and the City
16:30-17:15 Benjamin Zachariah: “The Invention of Hinduism for National
Use”
17:15-18:00 Sadaf Ahmad: “Al-Huda and the Making of an Authoritative Master
Narrative in Urban Pakistan”
Wednesday, December 18th
Session 7: Travelling Words
10:00-10:45 Andrew Quintman: “Geographical Narratives, Narrative
Geographies: Transformations of Lives and Landscapes on the Himalayan
Borderlands”
10:45-11:30 Davide Torri: “From Geographical Periphery to Conceptual
Centre: the Travels of Ngagchang Shakya Zangpo and the Discovery of Yolmo
Identity”.
Session 8: From Myth to Stone
12:00-12:45 Stefano Beggiora: “Migration, Cultural Adaptation Strategies,
Negotiation of Space in the Mythical Narrative of Apatanis of Arunachal
Pradesh”
12:45-13:30 Hasan Ali Khan: “How the Architecture of a Secret Belief System
Affected the Larger Religious Milieu: the Case of the Suhrawardi Building
Archetype in Medieval Multan and Uch”
A programme folder with abstracts is available for download from:
www.putative-purities.uni-hd.de<https://exchange.uni-heidelberg.de/owa/redir.aspx?C=DloJ0yedB0mP15eBdwNRQpUut3e0v9BIjvfJTuIlhLOhIH2wv19j8kjqPKVxfixQu7sbrC9zJIc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.putative-purities.uni-hd.de>
The conference is open to the public and can be attended free of charge.
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H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network)
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Research mini-cluster "Negotiating Religions" (MC 3) based at the Cluster
of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (University of
Heidelberg) is pleased to announce the following event. We look forward to
see many of you there!
On behalf of the organisers,
Dr Anna Andreeva
Research Fellow and Lecturer in Japanese Studies
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
University of Heidelberg
===============================================
Conference
"Putative Purities: Transcultural Dimensions of Master Narratives in
Religion"
Date: 16th – 18th of December, 2013
Venue: Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Hauptstraße
242, D-69117 Heidelberg
ABSTRACT
Master narratives provide collectivities with a coherent vision of their history and a sense of homogeneity. They are continually reiterated and stabilized constructions which tend to mask particularity and bias behind universalized representations of objective truth. Especially in postmodern and postcolonial critique, master narratives have been problema-tized in
view of their homogenizing as well as exclusionary potential.
But beyond such critique, master narratives also offer a fruitful avenue to investigate dynamics involved in, and issuing from, intense cultural contact, and the possibilities of representing, performing and materializing cultural alterity in their framework.
With a view towards transcultural dimensions involved in establishing, supporting and subverting master narratives, this conference places a special focus on religion: on narratives which support, challenge or displace religious identities, on their own or possibly also in synergy with other forms of collective identity (culture, race, nation).
The conference “Putative Purities” is conceptualized and organized by the research group “Negotiating Religion in a Transcultural Framework” (MC3) of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context – the Dynamics of Transculturality” of the University of Heidelberg."
PROGRAMME
Monday, December 16th
13:30 Welcome address
Session 1: Inventing Orthodoxy and Homogeneity
14:00-14:45 Nicholas Vogt: “Sloughing Off the Shang: The Conflicted Zhou
Legacy and Narratives of Early Chinese Ritual”.
14:45-15:30 Giulia Gebke: “The Ideology of Purity-of-Blood. A Master
Narrative in Early Modern Spain”.
Session 2: Buddhist Narratives and Identity
16:00-16:45 Sven Bretfeld: “The Buddha's Treasure Houses: Sri Lanka and
Tibet as Subjects of Religious Master Narratives”
16:45-17:30 Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya: “Transculturalism in the Peace
Narratives of Japanese Buddhism”
Tuesday, December 17th
Session 3: A Taxonomy of Difference
10:00-10:45 Federico Squarcini: “In the Beginning was Purity. Shaping and
Sharing Master Narratives on Origins in Sanskrit Metrical Dharmaśāstra”.
10:45-11:30 Sita Steckel: “Contrasting, Comparing, Connecting.
Thirteenth-century Christian Polemics and their Contributions to a
Discourse of Religious Diversity”.
Session 4: Ordering the Past
12:00-12:45 Alexandra Walsham: “Making a Master Narrative: Memory, The
Reformation and Modern Academic Writing”
12:45-13:30 Erik Schicketanz: “The Formation of Modern Chinese Buddhist
Historical Narratives Under Japanese Influence”
Session 5: Translating Narratives
14:30-15:15 Stuart Lachs: “Public Expectations Meet A Self-Fulfilling
Prophesy: A Contemporary Zen Autobiography”
15:15-16:00 Antje Flüchter/Giulia Nardini: “Christianity between Orthodoxy
and Ambiguity. The Jesuit Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656) Translating between
the Worlds“
Session 6: Nation and the City
16:30-17:15 Benjamin Zachariah: “The Invention of Hinduism for National
Use”
17:15-18:00 Sadaf Ahmad: “Al-Huda and the Making of an Authoritative Master
Narrative in Urban Pakistan”
Wednesday, December 18th
Session 7: Travelling Words
10:00-10:45 Andrew Quintman: “Geographical Narratives, Narrative
Geographies: Transformations of Lives and Landscapes on the Himalayan
Borderlands”
10:45-11:30 Davide Torri: “From Geographical Periphery to Conceptual
Centre: the Travels of Ngagchang Shakya Zangpo and the Discovery of Yolmo
Identity”.
Session 8: From Myth to Stone
12:00-12:45 Stefano Beggiora: “Migration, Cultural Adaptation Strategies,
Negotiation of Space in the Mythical Narrative of Apatanis of Arunachal
Pradesh”
12:45-13:30 Hasan Ali Khan: “How the Architecture of a Secret Belief System
Affected the Larger Religious Milieu: the Case of the Suhrawardi Building
Archetype in Medieval Multan and Uch”
A programme folder with abstracts is available for download from:
www.putative-purities.uni-hd.de<https://exchange.uni-heidelberg.de/owa/redir.aspx?C=DloJ0yedB0mP15eBdwNRQpUut3e0v9BIjvfJTuIlhLOhIH2wv19j8kjqPKVxfixQu7sbrC9zJIc.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.putative-purities.uni-hd.de>
The conference is open to the public and can be attended free of charge.
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