Table of Contents
- H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 30 November - 7 December
- JOURNAL> Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 42/2 (Fall 2015)
- H-Net: Past, Present, and Future
- EVENT> Kyoto Lecture (Dec 18): Going on Pilgrimage in 19th Century China: The itinerary network in the Canxue zhijin 參學知津 (Speaker: Marcus Bingenheimer)
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 30 November - 7 December
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 30 November 2015 to 7 December 2015. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.ANTHROPOLOGY
Deakin University - Lecturer in Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52190
ART AND ART HISTORY
Freie Universitaet Berlin - Universitatsprofessur fur Neueste Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttheorie / Professorship in Contemporary Art History and Art Theory
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52201
Hampshire College - Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution, is accepting applications for a full-time
visiting assistant professor of art history who holds expertise in the art and/or visual culture of the Americas.
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52214
National University of Singapore - Lecturer in Art History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52185
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - Full-Time Faculty Art History - Open Rank
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52234
University of California - Riverside - 4 Positions in Global Arts
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52242
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Kent State University - Chair, Department of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52215
Sweet Briar College - Assistant or Associate Professor: Comparative Politics
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52219
University of California - Santa Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar on Non-citizenship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52198
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago - Statistical Analysis Project Manager
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52210
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Sweet Briar College - Assistant or Associate Professor: Comparative Politics
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52219
University of California - Santa Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar on Non-citizenship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52198
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Scholarships for a PhD in History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52213
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
McGill University - Assistant or Associate Professor in Japanese Religions (Buddhism)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52070
The University of Queensland - Lecturer in Japanese
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52200
University of California - Santa Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar on Non-citizenship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52198
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Scholarships for a PhD in History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52213
McGill University - Assistant or Associate Professor in Japanese Religions (Buddhism)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52070
Yale University - Postdoctoral Associate in Ancient Judaism/Jewish History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52245
NONE
Florida International University - Assistant Professor in Modern American History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52226
Freie Universitaet Berlin - Junior Professorship in North American History salary grade W 1
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52212
Princeton University - Editorial Associate
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52195
University of California - Santa Barbara - Lecturer in History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52221
JOURNAL> Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 42/2 (Fall 2015)
Paul Swanson has announced the release of the newest volume of the JJRS, which contains the following articles:· LeFebvre, Jesse R.
Christian Wedding Ceremonies: “Nonreligiousness”
in Contemporary Japan [185–203]
· Rots, Aike P.
Sacred Forests, Sacred Nation: The Shinto
Environmentalist Paradigm and the Rediscovery of Chinju no Mori
[205–233]
· Godart, G. Clinton
Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity:
Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji’s East Asia League Movement [235–274]
· Drott, Edward R.
“To Tread on High Clouds”: Dreams of Eternal
Youth in Early Japan [275–317]
· Joskovich, Erez Hekigan
The Inexhaustible Lamp of Faith: Faith and
Awakening in the Japanese Rinzai Tradition [319–338]
· Kory, Stephan N.
From Deer Bones to Turtle Shells: The State
Ritualization of Pyro-Plastromancy during the Nara-Heian Transition [339–380]
· Green, Ronald S.
Review of: William E. Deal and Brian Ruppert, A
Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism [381–385]
· Thumas, Jonathan E.
Review of: Heather Blair, Real and Imagined:
The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan [385–391]
· Rots, Aike P.
Review of: Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Japanese
Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death [392–395]
· O’Leary, Joseph S.
Review of: Robert Magliola, Facing Up to Real
Doctrinal Difference: How Some Thought-Motifs from Derrida can Nourish the
Catholic-Buddhist Encounter [395–398]
Regards,
Chuck
H-Net: Past, Present, and Future
by Jean Stuntz
The Ghost of H-Net PastWhen H-Net began in 1994, email was a rarity, the internet was a collection of text-based gopher files that you could access if you knew the right commands, and scholars in small departments or isolated areas never had the chance to talk with someone else in their field. Into these dark times, H-Net editors took on the challenge to teach their colleagues how to use email. Editors promoted discussions of which archives were the most useful for which subjects. H-Announce soon started to replace physical paper flyers to announce conferences. Isolated scholars learned about funding opportunities, could research archives before visiting, and increased their intellectual life by having discussions with fellow scholars. Listserv lists connected people around the world in ways that had never before been possible. It was all very exciting.
But then, Netscape invented a way to put images on the web. People learned how to make their own webpages. Archives started digitizing images and texts and putting finding aids online. Facebook came around and suddenly the problem was not how to find someone to talk to but how to find time for all your new Friends. Twitter made it easy to follow other scholars. Instagram and snapchat made discussions of far-away places more visually interesting. And H-Net lists went on as usual. Discussions dropped off as scholars found other ways to communicate and research.
The Ghost of H-Net Present
In 2008, the H-Net Executive Council learned that the listserv software was not going to be usable much longer. It could not deal with increasing numbers of spam messages. The software was going to be unsupported soon. H-Net faced some major changes and the choice was not whether to change but how to change. It took a few years for Council and the Staff to settle on Drupal as the new platform. H-Net has always been committed to open-source software and having all of our products free to the user. (Institutions pay for the Job Guide ads but the job searcher has free access.)
Once the decision had been made to use Drupal, there were another few years of deciding what H-Net needed and how to make it work. There were wireframes, discussions, lots of changes, more discussion, input from editors, more changes, and on and on until a few years ago we had a design that could be field-tested. This was announced as the H-Net Commons, and networks – no longer just lists – moved to the new system. We immediately found flaws and bugs and the staff found fixes. The second version of the Commons went live and the number of issues has gone down.
There is still room to improve. We can make the experience for users and editors better and those changes are taking place. Many networks are doing about the same as they were before the move: sending out announcements mostly and maybe having the editors spark a few discussions. New editors could bring new life to old networks.
The Ghost of H-Net Future
For some networks, the move to the Commons has sparked a burst of creativity. They have experimented with the new tools and found amazing ways to use them. Take a look at H-Diplo’s Roundtable reviews, essays of various sorts, and discussions. Several networks have blogs, some have started collecting teaching materials. H-War has its "Hand Grenade of the Week" blog. Networks with ties to professional associations can be of much more service to their organizations now. We have H-Podcast and the book channel coming out. The future looks bright – if . . .
We need more editors to make use of all the Commons has to offer. Imagine H-Net as a place to find primary sources and discussions on those sources. What a boon to students and teachers alike! Imagine H-Net as a place to publish conference papers, to house bibliographies and historiographies, to highlight student projects in digital humanities. The Commons can be a wondrous place – if . . .
H-Net runs on mostly volunteer labor. A few staff people are paid out of Job Guide proceeds but that budget is limited. If we have more money coming in, we could hire more staff at MSU to help with the under-the-hood work that goes on out of sight. If we have more in the budget, we can offer some support to editors so they have time to create this wonderful content. You have given H-Net your time. Now we are asking that you give a little money, too, so H-Net can continue to grow and reach its potential.
Don’t be a Scrooge. Give generously. H-Net needs your support.
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Jean Stuntz
H-Texas, H-SAWH
President-Elect, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
EVENT> Kyoto Lecture (Dec 18): Going on Pilgrimage in 19th Century China: The itinerary network in the Canxue zhijin 參學知津 (Speaker: Marcus Bingenheimer)
École Francaise d’Extrême-Orient
EFEO
Scuola Italiana di Studi
sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS
(European Consortium for Asian
Field Study, ECAF)
KYOTO LECTURES 2015
Friday, December 18th, 18:00h
co-hosted by Institute for
Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
This lecture will be held at the
Institute for Research in Humanities (IRH), Kyoto University (seminar
room 1, 1st floor)
Going on Pilgrimage in 19th
Century China: The itinerary network in the Canxue zhijin 參學知津
Speaker: Marcus
Bingenheimer
Around 1826 the monk Ruhai
Xiancheng 如海顯承
wrote a route book of China's most popular pilgrimage routes for his
fellow monks: "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage" (Canxue
zhijin). This is a rare source for the travel routes of Buddhists in
late imperial times as it describes, station by station, 56
pilgrimage itineraries all over China, many converging on famous mountains
and urban centres. Its prefaces and essays complement this practical
information by explaining why and how 19th century monks went on
pilgrimage. Although the text was published without maps, the main
stations for each route have now been geo-referenced so that maps of
the pilgrimage network can be produced.
The talk will present preliminary
results of the ongoing project, discuss the history of the book and the
overall characteristics of the pilgrimage network. Notably, though
the majority of the destinations are Buddhist sites such as Mt. Wutai, Mt.
Emei or Mt. Putuo, Xiancheng also described routes to the traditional five
sacred mountains, popular Daoist sites such as Mt. Wudang, or Mt. Luofu,
and even famous Confucian localities, such as Qufu. He also visited
sites of scenic, historical or literary interest, such as the grave of Zhu
Geliang, or locations associated with the novel Xiyouji in northern
Jiangsu. In other words, the routes in "Knowing the Paths of
Pilgrimage" traverse not only the country's geography, but also the
full spectrum of sacred places in China.
Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉
obtained an MA (Sinology) and a Dr.phil (History of Religions) degree from
Würzburg University and an MA (Communication Studies) from Nagoya University.
He teaches in the Department of Religion at Temple University (Philadelphia)
and is currently visiting research fellow at Nagoya University. From 2005 to
2011 he taught Buddhism and Digital Humanities in Taiwan, where he also
supervised various projects concerning the digitization of Buddhist culture.
His main research interests are the history of Buddhism in East Asia and
early Buddhist sutra literature. Next to that, Marcus Bingenheimer is
interested in the Digital Humanities and how to do research in the age of
digital information.
For detailed directions:
École Francaise d’Extrême-Orient
(EFEO)
Italian School of East Asian
Studies (ISEAS)
EFEO
Phone: 075-701-0882
Fax: 075-701-0883
e-mail: efeo.kyoto@gmail.com
ISEAS
Phone: 075-751-8132
Fax: 075-751-8221
e-mail: iseas@iseas-kyoto.org
