Table of Contents
- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide, 7 January 2019 to 14 January 2019
- CFA> An International and Intensive Program on Buddhism at INALCO (July 7-24, 2019)
- WORKSHOP> Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials at UC Berkeley and Ōtani University
- RESOURCE> The Generations of Buddhist Studies
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide, 7 January 2019 to 14 January 2019
by A. Charles
Muller
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job
Guide from
7 January 2019 to 14 January 2019. 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.
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Brown University - Associate Professor or Professor
of East Asian
Studies
Simon Fraser University - Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior
Chair in Gender,
Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona - 2 Postdoctoral
Fellowships and 2
PhD scholarships in Early modern East Asian History
Oberlin College - Visiting Assistant Professor of
Japanese Language
and Culture
The University of Sydney - Lecturer in Japanese
Studies
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Iowa State University - Head of Digital Scholarship
and Initiatives
Leibniz Institute of European History - Head of
Digital Historical
Research (TV-L EG 15)
University of California - Berkeley - Academic
Coordinator - Visual
Resources Center - History of Art
Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona - 2 Postdoctoral
Fellowships and 2
PhD scholarships in Early modern East Asian History
CFA> An International and Intensive Program on Buddhism at INALCO (July 7-24, 2019)
by Vicky Baker
An International and Intensive Program on Buddhism at Institut national des langues et civilisations
orientales (INALCO)With the assistance from UBC’s SSHRC-sponsored international and interdisciplinary project on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (www.frogbear.org), the Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultures (tianzhubuddhistnetwork.org), whose founding members include UBC, McMaster, UC Berkeley, and Harvard in North America, and Ghent and INALCO in Europe, cordially invite applications for an intensive program on Buddhism and East Asian Cultures at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in July. Lasting from July 7 to July 24, 2019, this program is composed of two segments: July 7 – 14 (Segment 1) and July 18-24 (Segment 2), with an intersegmental conference (July 15-16) and a special forum for young scholars on July 17.
The backbone of this program consists of four seminars delivered by four international scholars. Each seminar combines close reading of primary sources, 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 four instructors for this year’s intensive program include, alphabetically:
- Clair BROWN (University of California at Berkeley): Buddhist Economics: The Foundation for an Equitable, Sustainable, Caring Economy (Segment 1);
- Jinhua CHEN (UBC): Identity and Network in East Asian Buddhism (Segment 2);
- Ann HEIRMAN (University of Ghent): Material Culture in Buddhist Normative Texts: From India to China (Segment 1);
- Zhe JI (INALCO-CEIB): Studying Chinese Buddhist Figures: Methods and Cases (Segment 2).
Senior undergraduate students and graduate students specializing in any Buddhism and other non-Buddhist East Asian religions, and postdoctoral fellows working on relevant fields, are encouraged to apply. Please direct applications and inquiries to tianzhu.network@ubc.ca. 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 (published or unpublished; in English or Chinese), 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.
The deadline to submit an application is April 5, 2019.
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.
This marks a continuation of an intensive program that was successfully initiated at UBC last summer (http://frogbear.org/an-international-and-intensive-program-on-buddhism-at-ubc/).
Schedule
- Segment 1 (July 7-14)
1.2. July 8-12: seminars (location: INALCO)
1.3. July 13: tour 1 (Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet)
1.4. July 14: break
- Intersegmental Conference and Student Forum (July 15-17) (location: Abbaye de Royaumont; recevoir.royaumont.com)
2.2. July 17: Youth Forum.
- Segment 2 (July 18-24)
3.2. July 23: Tour 2 (Fo Guang Shan France)
3.3. July 24: Departure
WORKSHOP> Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials at UC Berkeley and Ōtani University
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. 2019 will be the third year in this five-year
project that meets twice each year: we will meet in Berkeley from March 1 to 3
and in Kyoto at Ōtani University from June 21 to 23. 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), Jukoku
(1740), Jinrei (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 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 2019 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ōtani University from the 21st to the 23th of June.
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 2019, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by February 15, 2019. 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. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to Professor Michael Conway at conway@res.otani.ac.jp.
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Otani University, Ryukoku University, BCA Center for Buddhist Education, Institute of Buddhist Studies
RESOURCE> The Generations of Buddhist Studies
by Charles Prebish
Dear
Colleagues:
The
first contributions to the “Generations of Buddhist Studies” project have now
been posted on H-Buddhism. These contributions represent biographical reminiscences
on the part of senior Buddhist Studies scholars from around the globe. These
can be found by going to the top page of H-Buddhism and clicking on the link on
the the right side under "H-Buddhism Resources", labeled
"Generations of Buddhist Studies." A direct link is provided here: [Generations of Buddhist Studies].
It
is my hope that this project will give current and future Buddhist Studies scholars
a helpful and personal view of how our discipline has developed over the past
half-century (or longer).
Contributors
were encouraged to reflect on how they chose Buddhist Studies as their career
pursuit, negotiated their way through their graduate education, where their
career has led them, what their hopes are/were during their career and what
their hopes for the future of Buddhist Studies might be. Along the way, any
stories about academic life, friendships that developed, rivalries that occurred,
and so forth are included so as to help readers get a full view of our
discipline. Some contributors included stories about how their family life
factored into things, as well as reflections on their travels, and influences
they've had on the overall discipline.
I’m
sure that many of us have privately wondered about the lives of the early
Buddhist Studies scholars such as Thomas W. Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg,
Isaline Blew Horner, Louis de La Vallée Poussin, Étienne Lamotte, Erich
Frauwallner, Jan de Jong, Heinz Bechert, Alex Wayman, Leon Hurvitz, Gadjin
Nagao, Richard Robinson, Masatoshi Nagatomi, and many others. The “Generation
of Buddhist Studies” project is designed to eliminate those issues for current
and future generations of Buddhist Studies scholars.
In
the near future, many many more chapters will be posted as scholars who have
agreed to participate submit their contributions.
If
YOU would like to contribute to this project, you may send your
contribution to me (charles.prebish@psu.edu).
Contributors have only two requirements: (1) that Buddhist Studies is their
primary academic discipline and (2) that they completed their Ph.D. prior to
2010.
Best
wishes, and I hope you enjoy the contributions already online.
Charles
Prebish (charles.prebish@psu.edu)
Professor
Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University & Utah State University
