Table of Contents
- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 19 March - 26 March
- WORKSHOP> Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials at Ryukoku University (Fourth Meeting: June 22-24)
- CALL FOR PAPERS> "Religions" special issue on "Buddhism in the US and Canada"
- CFP> On the Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia
- CFA> An International and Intensive Program on Buddhism at Cambridge U
- JOURNAL> Contemporary Buddhism, vol. 19-1, 2018
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 19 March - 26 March
by Franz Metcalf
The
following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 19 March 2018 to 26
March 2018. 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
Aarhus University - Full professorships and professorships with special responsibilities in anthropology 968997
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56610
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) - A research position in the field of community welfare, cultural welfare, culture and wellbeing, culture-led local development at the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK- IRVAPP)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56592
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Johns Hopkins University - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Japanese or Korean Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56611
Quinnipiac University - Full-Time Visiting Faculty - Political Science
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56593
University of California - Berkeley - Lecturers - Various Fields of History - Department of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56600
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Leibniz Institute of European History - 3 postdoctoral positions (research associates) in digital historical research for the duration of five years from 1 January 2019
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56621
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Digital Humanities Postdoc
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56597
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Johns Hopkins University - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Japanese or Korean Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56611
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Johns Hopkins University - Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Japanese or Korean Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56611
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Aarhus University - Director of the Grundtvig Study Centre, School of Culture and Society 969058
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56622
Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Historian/Documentary Editor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56625
NONE
Christopher Newport University - Lecturer in History (American / Global)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56598
New York University Shanghai - Post/doctoral Fellow - Center for Global Asia
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56615
WORKSHOP> Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials at Ryukoku University (Fourth Meeting: June 22-24)
by Takahiko Kameyama
Dear Friends and Colleagues,I post the following on behalf of professor Mitsuya Dake and the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures at Ryukoku University.
We are pleased to announce the fourth workshop on Tannishō commentarial materials in Kyoto, Japan. The Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures at Ryukoku University together with University of California, Berkeley and Otani University will hold the fourth workshop which will focus on critically examining pre-modern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin Buddhism, from June 22 to 24 2018 at Ryukoku University in Kyoto.
Dates: June 22 to 24, 2018.
Location: Ryukoku University in Kyoto.
Cost: There is no participation fee.
Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed.
Requirements for Participation: 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.
Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each workshop that one wants to participate in. To apply to register for the current workshop (June 22-24, 2018), send a C.V. (free format) and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to the Ryukoku office (rcwbc-office@gmail.com) by June 8, 2018. You can write them in English or Japanese. Requests for a travel fellowship should be included in your letter with specifics of where you will be travelling from. Please reserve the hotel near Ryukoku University by yourself. Applications are by email only. Please download the application format from the following site (http://rcwbc.ryukoku.ac.jp/en/activity/170).
Travel Fellowships: A limited number of travel fellowships will be awarded to graduate students who are not affiliated with the three institutions listed above based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project as a whole. Those interested in receiving a fellowship should state that clearly in your application letter and submit it to the above address by April 26, 2018.
Accommodation: Please reserve the hotel near Ryukoku University by yourself. (Hotel rooms may soon sell out in Kyoto. We recommend you book a lodging facility early.)
Inquiries: Questions about the content of the workshop may be directed to the following address (rcwbc.office@gmail.com).
With regard to more detailed information, please see the following site (http://rcwbc.ryukoku.ac.jp/en/).
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Mitsuya Dake
The Research Center for World Buddhist Culture at Ryukoku University
Head, The office of the workshop on Tannishō
CALL FOR PAPERS> "Religions" special issue on "Buddhism in the US and Canada"
by Scott Mitchell
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I will serve as the guest editor for a special issue of Religions journal,
titled "Buddhism in the United States and Canada." I am
soliciting essays. For more information on this volume, the journal Religions, and submission
processes, please see the website here: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/canada
Over the last two decades, a growing body of scholarship has
emerged on Buddhism in both the United States and Canada including several
edited volumes and monographs such as Harding, Hori, and Soucy’s Flowers
on the Rock (2014), Mitchell and Quli’s Buddhism Beyond
Borders (2015), and Wilson’s Dixie Dharma (2012).
Whereas an earlier generation of scholarship on North American Buddhism was
dominated by historical studies, and Numrich’s North American Buddhists
in Social Context (2008) brought a much needed sociological lens to
the subject, more work is needed to chart the landscape of North American
Buddhism.
Wilson has argued that Buddhism in the United States (2015) and
Canada (2011) is a local phenomenon. To truly test that hypothesis, sustained
ethnographic fieldwork would be needed to critically explore and describe
Buddhism’s various expressions in the Midwest, New England, Hawai’i, or the
Pacific Northwest. Within these regional locales, Buddhism manifests in a
variety of ways, and Buddhists adapt (or resist adapting) their practices to
suit local ecological, economic, and cultural conditions. A deeper
understanding how North American Buddhists have attuned traditional forms of dress,
behavior, economies, or practices to local conditions is needed.
For this volume, we hope to solicit work that focuses on select
regions, field sites, or case studies to explore North American Buddhism's
various engagements with broader cultural trends. Such trends may include the
rise of secular mindfulness programs; social, political, and ecological
engagements; local economies, globalization, and the commodification of
Buddhist images and icons; or Buddhist higher education and Buddhist
practitioners within the academic field of Buddhist Studies. We are also
interested in new theoretical approaches to the study of Buddhism in the United
States and Canada, as well as critical evaluations of previously understudied
Buddhist teachers, leaders, and public figures.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: November
30, 2018
Regards,
Scott A. Mitchell
Rev. Yoshitaka Tamai Professor of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Studies
Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union
scott@shin-ibs.edu
Rev. Yoshitaka Tamai Professor of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Studies
Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union
scott@shin-ibs.edu
CFP> On the Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia
by Vicky Baker
CALL FOR PAPERSInternational Conference on Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: On the Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia
August 30-31, 2018; Cambridge, UK
The Buddhist Studies Forum at the University of British Columbia, with the assistance of the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies at Cambridge, cordially invites proposals for an international conference on “Production and Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Central and East Asia” to be held between August 30-31, 2018, at Cambridge, United Kingdom. The conference is made possible with generous support from the Glorisun Charitable Foundation based in Hong Kong.
The discovery of the cache of manuscripts and other materials in cave seventeen of the Mogao Grottoes, near Dunhuang, in western China, early last century has kindled the new field of the study of Central and East Asian Buddhist manuscripts. Discoveries in Japan late last century of twelfth-century copies of much earlier manuscripts, in addition to the treasury of documents preserved in the Shōsōin (Shōgozō), and at sites in Korea, Chinese Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, compel scholars to reconsider not only how we think about the transmission of Buddhist literature and religious teachings, but also the production and preservation of Buddhist texts and books across a broad geographical and chronological span. This conference explores the trans-cultural, multi-ethnic, and cross-regional production, preservation, and uses of premodern Buddhist manuscripts in Asia.
Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to studies of:
- The production and/or preservation of manuscripts in Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Khotanese, Tangut, and so forth, from Central and East Asia;
- Buddhist manuscripts of texts included in the so-called East Asian Buddhist canons;
- Buddhist manuscripts of texts excluded from manuscript or printed editions of the so-called East Asian Buddhist canons;
- Manuscripts of ritual manuals, performances, histories, or other texts exchanged in Central and East Asia;
- People and communities who produced or preserved manuscripts in premodern Central and East Asia;
- Exchange and/or production of particular manuscripts or printed books (codicology) in Central and East Asia;
- Collections of Buddhist texts—or canons—at specific sites in Central and East Asia;
- Editions of works in multilingual manuscripts or collections;
- Paleographical, codicoligical, or doxographical aspects of premodern Buddhist manuscripts.
A conference volume will collect all the papers in English, plus the English translations of several papers written in non-English languages; a Chinese volume, to be published in China, will include the Chinese versions for all non-Chinese papers in addition to those papers contributed by our colleagues based in China. Only scholars who are confident in finishing their draft papers by the end of July and publishable papers by the end of 2018 are encouraged to apply. Please email proposals and CVs to frogbear.project@ubc.ca by April 30, 2018.
This conference is planned as part of our annual Intensive Program of Lectures Series, Conference/Forum, and Fieldwork on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures at Cambridge, sponsored by UBC’s SSHRC partnership project of Buddhism and East Asian Religions (www.frogbear.org) and the Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies the latter of which involves several top universities in East Asia, North America and Europe (http://glorisunglobalnetwork.org). Interested graduate student and post-doctoral fellows are welcome to apply for the whole program (details can be found here).
CFA> An International and Intensive Program on Buddhism at Cambridge U
by Vicky Baker
Call for Applications: An International and Intensive Program on
Buddhism at Cambridge August 20-September 10, 2018; Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Glorisun Global Network of Buddhist Studies at UBC, with the assistance from its partner at Cambridge and the Research Center for Buddhist Texts and Arts at Peking University, cordially invites applications for an intensive program on Buddhist Studies. Lasting for three weeks from August 20 to September 10, 2018, this program is composed of two segments: Segment 1 from August 20 to August 29 and Segment 2 from September 1 to September 10, which are connected by an intersegmental conference (detailed below).
The backbone of this program consists of six seminars delivered by six faculty members from six of the Glorisun partner universities. Each seminar combines close reading of primary sources (non-Chinese primary sources may be accompanied by English translations), lectures on the implications of these sources, and guided presentations from participating students on their research, which could be their term papers, or thesis chapters. The six instructors for this year’s intensive program include, alphabetically:
- Jinhua Chen (UBC): What Was Moved (and Removed) from Stone to Paper?: Close Reading of Monastic Biographies with their Epigraphical Originals (Segment 1);
- Michael Friedrich (Hamburg): Mādhyamika and Daoism in Early Medieval China (Segment 1);
- Imre Galambos (Cambridge): Stories and Manuscripts between East and West (Segment 2);
- Leonard van ter Kuijp (Harvard): The Transfer of Buddhism from India to Tibet and Its Transformation (Segment 2);
- Stefano Zacchetti (Oxford): Early Chinese Buddhist Translations and Commentaries (Segment 2);
- Ru Zhan (PekingU): Buddhist Cave Arts: From Ayutthaya to Dunhuang (Segment 1).
The program also supports a series of occasional lectures, to be delivered by 6-7 top scholars, both based in Europe and coming from East Asia and North America. In addition to participating in these seminars, lectures and the intersegmental conference, student participants will conduct several field trips in Cambridge and neighboring areas, to gain firsthand experience of famed religious sites. They are also encouraged to present their research papers to their program instructors, lecturers, and their peer participants. Outstanding students will be selected and invited to carry out short-term (6-12 months long) research at UBC and UBC’s partner universities in East Asia, Europe and North America that are linked together through a large SSHRC-sponsored international and interdisciplinary project on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (www.frogbear.org). This may further bring them the opportunity of pursuing doctoral degrees or doing postdoctoral research at these top universities.
Participants are required to take part in all of the activities supported by the program, including the lecture series, the conference, students’ forum and field trips. Senior undergraduate students and graduate students specializing in any Buddhist tradition(s), and postdoctoral fellows working on relevant fields, are encouraged to apply. Please direct applications and inquiries to FrogBear.Project@ubc.ca. Please submit applications before April 25, 2018. Each application should include (1) an application form (to be provided upon request via the above email address), (2) updated curriculum vitae, (3) one writing sample, and (4) a reference letter (to be emailed by the referee directly to the above email address). Priority will be given to those applicants who are able to participate in both segments, although applications may also be considered from applicants who can only take part in one segment due to compelling reasons.
To guarantee sufficient interaction of student participants with instructors and between student participants themselves, student enrollment is limited to 30. In addition to being exempted from all tuition and administration fees, a successful candidate may receive a subsidy ranging from US$1,000-1,500 (depending on his or her individual needs and the distance s/he has to travel for the program) that will help defray program-related expenses, including lodging, meals, and transportation.
JOURNAL> Contemporary Buddhism, vol. 19-1, 2018
by A. Charles Muller
Contemporary Buddhism https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcbh20/currentVol. 19-1, 2018
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