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- SEMINAR> Tannishō Commentarial Materials
- CFP> UC-Berkeley Japan Graduate Conference "On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan"
- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 12 December - 19 December
SEMINAR> Tannishō Commentarial Materials
by Tessa Machida
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist
Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani
University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the
supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and
modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism,
and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. Beginning in
2017, the workshop will continue for five years, meeting twice a year for 3 to
4 days each time, in late March in Berkeley and early August in Kyoto, where it
will be hosted alternately by Ōtani and Ryūkoku universities. Organized around
close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern,
modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical,
annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been
both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a
wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken
on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi
(1662), Jinrei (1801-1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. For the modern
period, works by Andō Shūichi (1909), Chikazumi Jōkan (1930), and Soga Ryōjin
(1947) will be the major concern. And for the postwar/postmodern period, due to
the sheer volume of publications (over 300 titles), reading choices will be
selected at a later date in consultation with participants.
Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be in primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.
Dates: Exact dates will vary from year to year based on academic calendars, but for 2017 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 25th to the 27th of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ōtani University from the 4th to the 7th of August.
Cost: There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project. Participation Requirements: Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is
acceptable.
Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply to register for either or both of the workshops for 2017, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by the end of January, 2017. Applications are by email only, and application deadlines will remain as end-January in subsequent years as well. Requests for a travel fellowship money should be included in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from and if you plan to attend one or both meetings that year. Questions about the content of the workshop may
be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu.
CFP> UC-Berkeley Japan Graduate Conference "On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan"
by Tessa Machida
CALL FOR PAPERSOn Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan
University of California, Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies
Conference Dates: April 7 – 8, 2017
Submissions Due: January 15, 2017
Email To: cjsgradconference@berkeley.edu
Website: http://cjsgradconference2017.weebly.com/
The UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies presents its fourth annual graduate student conference: On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan. We invite proposals for papers that focus on past and present inquiries into and expressions of identity and community formation vis-à-vis gender and sexuality in Japan. Current graduate students and recent graduates in any discipline are invited to apply. In particular we welcome abstracts that explore the role of identity (including gendered, sexual, social, and ethnic) in relation to Japanese Buddhist institutions, texts, and community practices.
This conference will also explore representations of and critical engagements with notions of gender, sexuality, and identity that illuminate where and how interpretations of such notions have manifested barriers to belonging in the forms of discrimination and marginalization. Within this arena individual papers might focus on the expression of private, personal experience as well as the mounting of public demonstrations as critiques of normativity or state practice. Papers might also consider how members of academia deploy theories of gender, sexuality, and queerness to critically analyze the effects normativity and institutional power or to encourage the re-reading of historical objects and events.
Categories of exploration might include but are not limited to:
- Intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and/or other categories of group identity and individual lived experience
- Questions of normativity/non-normativity, the consideration of how boundaries to belonging are constructed or questioned, and the “queering” of cultural narratives and perspectives
- Engagements with practices of “close” or “paranoid” readings versus “surface” readings, and how theory can be efficacious to “recovery” of narratives and/or risk obfuscation of historical particulars
- Whether state and religious institutions enact normativity, whether there can be a “queering” of institutions, or whether institutions can intervene in social constructs of normativity
- The framing and understanding of gender and sexuality in Japanese Buddhism and other institutions of cultural practice and belief, and how cultural and spiritual practices shape ideas of the normative and non-normative
Proposed papers should present original, critical research that substantially engages with the conference theme in relation to Japan Studies writ large. Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words along with your name, institutional affiliation/program, presentation title, and short biography (100 words) to cjsgradconference@berkeley.edu by January 15, 2017.
Funding
Limited funding is available for participants. Please apply early and indicate your need for funding, including from where you will be travelling and whether you will require lodging. International scholars are encouraged to apply.
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 12 December - 19 December
by Charles
DiSimone
The
following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from12 December 2016 to 19 December 2016. 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
Amherst College - Post-doctoral fellow
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54324
Osaka University - Associate Professor, Sociology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54284
University of Pennsylvania - Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship
and Constitutionalism Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-18 on "States of
Religious Freedom"
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54296
ART AND ART HISTORY
Amherst College - Post-doctoral fellow
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54324
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg - Wissenschaftliche/r
Mitarbeiter/in, Deutsche Tafelmalerei des Spatmittelalters
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54283
Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302
Rice University - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in
Architecture and the Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54316
University of Central Florida - Instructor or Lecturer, Digital Media
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54325
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302
Oregon State University - Taiwan Studies postdoctoral fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54286
Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Japanese
History and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54320
Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Korean
History and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54321
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Professor / Associate
Professor / Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54282
University of Hong Kong - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in China
Studies in the School of Chinese and the School of Modern Languages
and Cultures
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54305
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Duke University - POSTDOC: Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the
Duke Center for Jewish Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54278
Leibniz Institute of European History - Head of Digital Historical
Research and Research Infrastructures Unit
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54322
Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311
St. Mary's University - Assistant Professor of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54328
Texas State University - Digital History, Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54329
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302
Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302
Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311
Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Japanese
History and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54320
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Duke University - POSTDOC: Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the
Duke Center for Jewish Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54278
Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311
University of Pennsylvania - Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship
and Constitutionalism Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-18 on "States of
Religious Freedom"
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54296
NONE
Naval War College - Strategy and Policy: The position falls in the
Strategy and Policy Department under the Dean of Academics. The
strategy courses use strategic theory, the history of war (on land
and at sea), and an examination of current-day conflicts to develop
critica
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54285
