Dear Colleagues:
I would like to announce a combined workshop and
conference on “New Sources for the Study of Japanese Religion,” organized by
Prof. Kikuchi Hiroki of the Historiographical Institute (Shiryō Hensanjo) of the
University of Tokyo and myself, to be held at Princeton University on March
14-16, 2014 (opening reception March 13).
A complete schedule for this
event, abstracts of workshops and presentations, and a link for online
registration are now available at http://religion.princeton.edu/newsources/.
The deadline
for registration is February 21, 2014. Please feel free to pass this
announcement on to your graduate students or anyone else who might be
interested. Queries may be addressed to newsources@princeton.edu. I very much
hope to see some of you at the workshop!
Jacqueline Stone
Dept. of
Religion
Princeton University
Workshop Description:
In the last
few decades, scholars of Japanese history and religion, especially of the
ancient and medieval periods, have expanded their research beyond formal
doctrinal writings and written historical records to include texts written on
the reverse side of documents (shihai monjo 紙背文書), hagiography, narratives, and
other little known or understudied textual sources, as well as pictorial scrolls
and other art historical materials, stone and bronze inscriptions, sites and
archaeological remains. Led by a number of prominent scholars from Japan, this
combined workshop/conference aims to introduce some of these new sources and the
interdisciplinary possibilities they offer for the study of premodern Japanese
Religion and History, and also provide some preliminary training in their use.
We envision a workshop of somewhere between 25-30 people, mostly faculty and
graduate students. Apart from talks by American presenters on March 16, the
workshop will be conducted primarily in Japanese.
