Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego,
November
22-25, 2014
Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in
Twentieth-Century China Seminar
This seminar will celebrate the
significant scholarly contributions made by
Holmes Welch (1924-1981) to the
study of twentieth-century Chinese
Buddhism, and also explore how we might
advance the field beyond the
boundaries and scope of his original ideas
through the use of new sources
and methodologies.
For this, the first
year of a five-year seminar series, we are seeking
proposals for full
research papers that directly address any aspect of
Welch’s scholarship, and
which use original work to critique it, bring it
up to date, and to suggest
new avenues of research within the field. We
welcome submissions from all
scholars, but scheduling priority will be
given to previously-confirmed
participants. In order to facilitate
substantive conversation during the
panel, this seminar will participate in
the AAR Full Paper Submission system.
Full drafts of all accepted papers
must be posted online several weeks prior
to the Annual Meeting, and will
be accessible to AAR members only.
Participants will read all papers in
advance, and the meeting time will be
devoted to comments and suggestions
on those papers. At the conclusion of
this five-year seminar, the best
papers in the seminar series will be
collected into an edited volume on
Welch’s life and work.
Please
submit papers through the AAR's PAPERS system, online at
http://papers.aarweb.org/
For additional information,
please contact the seminar chairs,
Erik Hammerstrom, Pacific Lutheran
University <hammerej@plu.edu>
Gregory Adam Scott,
University of Edinburgh <gscott23@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
