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- FELLOWSHIP> Call for Applicants for Nanzan Post-Doc Research Fellowship 2016
- ANNOUNCEMENT> AAR papers and panels related to Tibetan and Himlayan Religions
FELLOWSHIP> Call for Applicants for Nanzan Post-Doc Research Fellowship 2016
by Paul Swanson
The Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture is happy to announce a new fellowship for one post-doctoral student who has received a PhD from a university outside of Japan in the field of religious studies with a focus on some aspect of religion in Japan. The fellowship is supported by a Nanzan University program for the promotion of global exchanges.
CONDITIONS
Period of the fellowship: 1 September 2016–31 March 2017 (7 months)
Number of recipients: 1
The fellow will receive a round-trip airplane
ticket between the international airport closest to his or her current address
and the Central Japan International Airport (Centrair).
The fellow will receive a stipend of 200,000 JPY
per month during the period mentioned above.
The fellow is expected to concentrate 60% of his
or her work on post-doctoral research, for which a private office will be
provided in the Nanzan Institute building.
The fellow is expected to spend the other 40% on
research activities of the Nanzan Institute, such as assisting editorial work
for the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies and participating in
research projects and meetings at the Institute.
The fellow may apply for room and board at the
Paulus Heim, located near the Institute (see http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/facilities/
for details).
APPLICATIONApplicants should send the following documents by e-mail attachment no later than 29 February 2016 to pswanson@nanzan-u.ac.jp and nirc-office@ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp .
- Full CV/resume, including list of publications
- Two letters of recommendation
For further information or questions, please contact Paul Swanson at pswanson@nanzan-u.ac.jp.
ANNOUNCEMENT> AAR papers and panels related to Tibetan and Himlayan Religions
by Sarah Jacoby
Dear Colleagues,
We’d like to announce all papers
and panels related to Tibetan and Himalayan Religions that will take place at
the AAR this year in Atlanta. Please note that there is a Mandala Sand
Painting Ceremony by monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery, listed first in
what follows, followed by the 4 THRG co/sponsored sessions and then all other
related papers and panels.
For the full list of Tibetan and
Himalayan Religions-related panels and papers, see
http://campuspress.yale.edu/thrg/2015-atlanta-related-paperspanels/
Best wishes, Sarah and Ben
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore
College
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern
University
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions
Group co-chairs
AAR, Atlanta 2015
Tibetan and Himalayan
Religions Group
Panels and Papers of Interest
A21-4
Arts Series
Theme: Mandala
Sand Painting Opening Ceremony
Saturday - 8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Marriott-Imperial B (Marquis
Level)
Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung
Loseling Monastery will construct a Mandala Sand Painting from Saturday,
November 21, 8:30 am-Monday November 23, 6:30 pm.
The mandala sand painting begins
with an opening ceremony, during which the lamas consecrate the site and call
forth the forces of goodness. This is done by means of chanting, music and
mantra recitation, and will be held on Saturday, November 21 at 8:30 am.
The closing ceremony will be held
on Monday November 23, at 6:30 pm.
4 SESSIONS CO-/SPONSORED BY THE
TIBETAN AND HIMALAYAN RELIGIONS GROUP:
A21-242
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions
Group
Theme: Female Lives and
Narratives in Tibet: New Materials and New Perspectives
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Marriott-A705 (Atrium Level)
Micheal Sheehy, Tibetan Buddhist
Resource Center
The Bibliographic Scope of
Buddhist Women Literati in Tibet
Jue Liang, University of Virginia
Garland of Seven Strands: An
Early Corpus of Yeshé Tsogyel's Hagiographies
Elizabeth Angowski, Harvard
University
Intimate Relationships in the
Early Lives of Yeshé Tsogyel
Alison Melnick, Bates College
Female Authority and the Lives
of Women in Eighteenth Century Tibet: Reading Hagiography as History
Holly Gayley, University of
Colorado
Situating Female Religious
Authority: Gender, Genre, and Geography in Eastern Tibet
Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
Business Meeting:
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern
University
A22-327
Tantric Studies Group and Tibetan
and Himalayan Religions Group
Theme: Ritual (and) Practice in
Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-L508 (Lobby Level)
Rae Erin Dachille-Hey, University
of California, Berkeley
Tantric Ritual and the Problem
of Imagination
Patricia Sauthoff, University of
London
Controlling Death to Control
Perceptions: Understanding How Kashmir Śaiva Death Rituals Lead to Social
Influence
Michael Reading, Claremont School
of Theology
Brahmacharya in Focus: Tantric
and Advaita Vedantic Perspectives on the Spiritual Utility of Celibacy
A23-130
Religion and Popular Culture Group
and Religion and Science Fiction Group and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions
Group and Yoga in Theory and Practice Group
Theme: (Re)presentations of
Science and Yogic Religion in Pop Culture
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton-Grand Salon B (Level 2)
Anna Pokazanyeva, University of
California, Santa Barbara
The Turbaned Superman: Popular
Depictions of Yogi Figures and the Shift to a Scientific Universalism
Joel Gruber, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Tibetan Yogic Practices in the
Batman Epic: The Dark Yoga of the Dark Knight
Adam Krug, University of California,
Santa Barbara
“I’ll See You Again in
Twenty-Five Years:” Tibetan Buddhism in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and in
American Pop Culture in the 90s
Paul G. Hackett, Columbia
University
The Future Is Not What It Used
To Be: Religion, Yoga, and Tibet in Star Trek and Doctor Who
Rex Barnes, Columbia University
The Implied Spider-Man:
Transcreating Religious Imagery, Symbol, and Meaning in Spider-Man India
Responding:
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of
the West
A24-112
Buddhism Section and Tibetan and
Himalayan Religions Group
Theme: Tibetan Teachers,
Tibetan Performers: Can Performance Theories Help Us Understand Buddhist
Pedagogical Practices?
Tuesday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott-A702 (Atrium Level)
Joshua Schapiro, Fordham University
Performative Framing and
Reflexivity: Patrul Rinpoche's Teachings about Teaching
Elizabeth Monson, Harvard
University
The Performance of Truth
Telling: Spiritual Transformation in the Writings of Drukpa Kunle (1455-1529)
Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University
Dazzling Displays and
Mysterious Departures: Bodhisattva Pedagogy as Performance in the Biographies
of Two Twentieth Century Tibetan Buddhist Masters
Ryan Jones, McGill University
Performativity and Personhood
between Teachers and Students in Tibetan Buddhist Preliminary Practices (Sngon
‘Gro)
OTHER SESSIONS RELATED TO TIBETAN
AND HIMALAYAN RELIGIONS:
M20-204
Dharma Academy of North America
(DANAM)
Theme: Icons, Imagery,
Imagination
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, Wellesley
College, Presiding
Friday - 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Marriott-International 2
(International Level)
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of
San Diego
Imagining Enlightenment: Icons
and Ideology in Tibetan Buddhist Practice
A21-116
Buddhist Critical–Constructive
Reflection Group
Theme: Buddhist Responses to
Religious Pluralism
Francisca Cho, Georgetown
University, Presiding
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton-302 (Level 3)
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple
University
Buddhism and Beyond: The
Question of Pluralism
Rachel Pang, Davidson College
The Contemporary Relevance of
Shabkar’s (1781-1851) Response to Religious Pluralism
A21-107
Buddhism Section
Theme: Formations of Doctrine
in Buddhist Modernity
Jason Josephson, Williams College,
Presiding
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott-International 2
(International Level)
Holly Gayley, University of
Colorado
Padmatsho, Sichuan Nationalities
University
Buddhist Modernism and Ethical
Reform on the Tibetan Plateau: New Articulations of Non-Violence
A21-119
Contemplative Studies Group
Theme: Listening Closely:
Toward an Interdisciplinary Ethnographic Neuroscience of Contemplative Practice
Jeffrey C. Ruff, Marshall
University, Presiding
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton-Grand Ballroom C (Level
2)
Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Emory
University
Contemplative Science, Secular
Ethics, and the Lojong Tradition: A Case Study
Jeffrey Stephen Lidke, Berry
College
The Potential of the
Bi-Directional Gaze: A Call for Neuroscientific Research on the Activation of
the Autonomic Nervous System through Tantric Practice
A21-246
Holmes Welch and the Study of
Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar
Theme: Prescriptive Ideals
(Sectarian and Institutional) in Holmes Welch’s Work on Chinese Buddhism
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Hyatt-222 (2nd Level)
Wei Wu, Princeton University
Distinction and Inclusiveness:
The Rise of A Tibetan Esoteric School in Anti-Sectarian Trends in Republican
China
A21-229
Religion and Ecology Group
Theme: The Religion and
Politics of Sacred Space
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Hilton-Crystal BE (Level 1)
Luke Whitmore, University of
Wisconsin, Steven's Point
Understanding the Destructive
Dance of Nature
Chris Crews, The New School
Sumak Kawsay, Pachamama, and
Cosmopolitics: The Rights of Nature, Earthbound People and Global Indigenous
Struggles
A22-211
African Diaspora Religions Group
and Indigenous Religious Traditions Group and Native Traditions in the Americas
Group
Theme: Decolonization through
Therapeutic and Culinary Practices
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hyatt-Roswell (Atlanta Conference
Level)
Natalie Avalos Cisneros, University
of California, Santa Barbara
Healing as Liberation: Native
American and Tibetan Decolonization
A22-205
Buddhism Section and Buddhist
Critical–Constructive Reflection Group and Buddhist Philosophy Group and
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group
Theme: Women And Buddhist
Philosophy
Sunday - 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Marriott-A704 (Atrium Level)
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of
San Diego
Buddhist Women’s Ways of
Knowing: Gender and Philosophical Analysis in the Tibetan Tradition
Constance Kassor, Smith College
Rhetoric and Marginalization
through a Tibetan Buddhist Perspective
A22-305
Buddhism Section
Theme: Books and Bodies, Caves
and Technologies
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-International 9
(International Level)
Eric Huntington, Princeton
University
Creating Universes: Divergent
Ritual Cosmologies in Nepalese and Tibetan Contexts
A22-313
Contemplative Studies Group and
Mysticism Group
Theme: Mystics and
Contemplatives in the Academy Today: Religious Experience from the Outside In
and Inside Out
June McDaniel, College of
Charleston, Presiding
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-International 3
(International Level)
Panelists:
Anne C. Klein, Rice University
Lola L. Williamson, Millsaps
College
Christopher Chapple, Loyola
Marymount University
Barbara A. B. Patterson, Emory
University
Jay Michaelson, Chicago Theological
Seminary
Frederick Colby, University of
Oregon
Responding:
Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University
A23-119
Buddhist Critical-Constructive
Reflection Group and Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and
Culture Group
Theme: Buddhist Approaches to
Moral Injury and Recovery
Christopher Ives, Stonehill
College, Presiding
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton-Grand Ballroom C (Level
2)
Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Emory
University
Theoretical and Practical
Resources of the Tibetan Lojong (Blo Sbyong) Tradition for Addressing Moral
Injury
Jennifer Wade, Boston College
Mind Training Informed by the
Transformational Anger of Judith Butler as Resource to Support Recovery from
Moral Injury
A23-133
Science, Technology, and Religion
Group
Theme: Technology and the
Sacred
Sarah Fredericks, University of
Chicago, Presiding
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton-401-402 (Level 4)
Yasmin Cho, Duke University
Taking Photos of Sacredness:
Technology, (In)Visibility, and the Production of Sacredness in the Practice of
Tibetan Buddhism
P23-100
Society for Buddhist-Christian
Studies and Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Theme: Thomas Merton at 100:
His Influence on the Study of Hinduism and Buddhism
George Kilcourse, Bellarmine
College, Presiding
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott-M104 (Marquis Level)
Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa
University
Communicating In Depth:
Merton’s Practice Dialogue with Tibetan Buddhism
A23-218
Buddhist Philosophy Group
Theme: Siddha-Scholars and
Scholar-Siddhas: Tantra and Philosophy in Indian Buddhism
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Hyatt-Roswell (Atlanta Conference
Level)
Kammie Takahashi, Muhlenberg
College
Birds and Fishes: View and
Method in the Mahāyoga Texts of Buddhaguhya
Adam Krug, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Philosophy and Polemics in
Indrabhūti's Jñānasiddhi
Davey Tomlinson, University of
Chicago
The Tantric Context of a
Philosophical Debate About Consciousness: Ratnākaraśānti's Nirākāravāda
Alexander Yiannopoulos, Emory
University
Continuity and Convergence in
Epistemology and Meditation: Ratnākaraśānti's Synthesis of Sūtra and Tantra
Responding:
John D. Dunne, University of Wisconsin
A23-316
Animals and Religion Group
Theme: Animals as Harbingers of
Fortune, Disaster, and Power in Asian Religions
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-206 (Level 2)
Brandon Dotson, Ludwig Maximilians
Universität München
Wild Animals, Fortune, and the
Hunt in Old Tibetan Dice Divination
A23-333
Tantric Studies Group
Theme: Fear and Loathing in
Samsara: a Study in Terror across Tantric Literature and Practice Systems
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Marriott-L506-507 (Lobby Level)
John R. B. Campbell, University of
Virginia
Awake and Terrified: Buddhist
Tantric Commentators on the Subtle States of Mind at Death
David Gray, Santa Clara University
Laughing in the Face of Fear:
Horror and Terror in Yoginītantras
Katarina Turpeinen, University of
Virginia
Going beyond Fear: The Cutting
Practices in Rindzin Gödem’s Dzokchen Anthology
Elaine Fisher, University of
Wisconsin
When Tantra Becomes Orthodoxy:
Samayin Śrīvidyā the Sanitization of Fear-Based Technology
Responding:
Christian K. Wedemeyer, University
of Chicago
A23-313
Women and Religion Section and
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Group
Theme: Gender, Health, and
Healing: Women’s Bodies, Religious Cures, and Productions of Medical Knowledge
Monday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton-205 (Level 2)
Yasmin Cho, Duke University
Buddhist Medical Nuns: Gender,
Monastic Education, and the Production of Medical Knowledge in Tibetan Buddhism
in Contemporary China
