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- CFP> Comparative Studies in Religion
- SUMMER PROGRAM> Buddhist Studies and Classical
Tibetan Summer Program Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California
- LECTURE> Special Lecture by Dr. Fumihiko Sueki,
February 14 2019, Ryukoku University
- CFP> AAR 2019 Korean Religions Unit
CFP>
Comparative Studies in Religion
by Oliver Freiberger
Dear
colleagues,
Please see
below the Call for Papers of the Comparative Studies in Religion unit
for the AAR’s Annual Meeting 2019 in San Diego. The submission system has
opened (https://papers.aarweb.org/content/welcome),
and the deadline for proposal submission is March 4th, 5pm ET. Please
note that the unit does not consider individual paper submissions, only
roundtables or panels. Please contact the conveners of the panels below or
organize your own panel on a different topic.
We invite
papers on the following topics:
●
Images
of the Ocean in World Religions, Contact person: Nicole Zhange Ni nizhange@vt.edu (potential co-sponsorship
with Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit) - This session welcomes papers that
explore images of the ocean in visual, verbal, and audio arts that draw from
world religions. What is the significance of the oceans in our globalized
world? What resources are available in diverse artistic endeavors and religious
traditions that teach us to live with the oceans?
● Comparative
Studies Roundtable: What Makes for a Productive Collaboration? Contact: Jon
Keune (keunejon@msu.edu)
-
The purpose of this roundtable would be to share experiences about the practice of collaborative comparison, including 1) models/mechanics that enable deep engagement, 2) creative “products” of collaborative scholarship, and 3) reports on ongoing collaborations to share wisdom and seek feedback.
The purpose of this roundtable would be to share experiences about the practice of collaborative comparison, including 1) models/mechanics that enable deep engagement, 2) creative “products” of collaborative scholarship, and 3) reports on ongoing collaborations to share wisdom and seek feedback.
● Mothering
across Religious Traditions: A Comparative Roundtable, Contact: Pascale
Engelmajer (pengelma@carrollu.edu)
● Religion and
Humor, Contact: Jason Smith (jason_smith@mail.harvard.edu)
● Sexual
Transgressions, Contact: Christopher Parr (parrch@webster.edu)
● Teaching
Comparison, Contact: Oliver Freiberger (of@austin.utexas.edu)
●
Destruction
and Unmaking in Arts, Literature, and Religion, Contact person: Margaret Elaine Elwell (margaret.elwell@ptsem.edu)
(potential co-sponsorship with Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit) -
This session invites reflection on burning, smashing, unraveling, or undoing in
art and literature as religious, spiritual, or theological acts. Of interest
are creative practices, rituals, or installations that destroy or unmake,
visual and literary methods and representations of destruction, and
undoing/unmaking in the processes of art and craft.
For more on the
unit, see here: https://papers.aarweb.org/content/comparative-studies-religion-unit.
Please contact us anytime if you have further questions.
Best,
Ivette and
Oliver
Co-chairs
of the Comparative Studies in Religion Unit of the AAR
Ivette
Vargas-O’Bryan
Austin
College
Oliver
Freiberger
The
University of Texas at Austin
SUMMER
PROGRAM> Buddhist Studies and Classical Tibetan Summer Program Rangjung
Yeshe Gomde California
by Jack deTar
Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California
and Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe
Institute are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for
our intensive Buddhist
Studies and Classical Tibetan summer programs.
In Summer 2019 we will offer two
programs at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde California in Leggett, California in which
students will receive internationally recognized academic credit offered
through the Rangjung Yeshe Institute Centre for Buddhist Studies at Kathmandu
University.
The two programs run concurrently
from June 12th -
August 14th:
The Buddhist Studies Summer
Program is an academically accredited residential study and practice program
that combines traditional and academic approaches to Buddhist Studies. Students
in the program live at our remote Northern California center and participate in
daily sessions of teaching and meditation led by our Lamas, teachers, and
translators.
The Dharmachakra School of
Translation offers intermediate-level training in written, classical Tibetan.
Our program is open to students with one or more years of formal study of the
classical Tibetan language in either an academic or traditional context. This
program has drawn students from all major lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and has
attracted graduate students from Yale University, the University of Chicago,
Emory University, and UC Berkeley.
Both courses are taught by faculty
from Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe
Institute.
Undergraduate and graduate
advisors, please pass this information along to your students.
Best wishes,
Jack deTar
Executive Director
Gomde California
LECTURE>
Special Lecture by Dr. Fumihiko Sueki, February 14 2019, Ryukoku University
by Takahiko Kameyama
Dear Friends and Colleagues,I am pleased to announce the special lecture by Dr. Fumihiko Sueki in Ryukoku University on be half of the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryukoku University.
Dr. Sueki, a professor emeritus of Tokyo University and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, will give a lecture concerning Japanese emperors (tenno) and Japanese religions during modern period on February 14, 2019 in Ryukoku University Omiya Campus.
Special Lecture in the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures,Ryukoku University
Title "The Sacredness of Modern Japanese Emperors (tenno) and Buddhas and Kami" (近代天皇の聖性と神仏)
Speaker Fumihiko Sueki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Date February 14 2019, 15:00-16:30
Place Conference Room, 2nd Floor West Hall, Omiya Campus, Ryukoku University
(Language Japanese)
Sponsors Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryukoku University
Free of charge. No reservation is needed.
For more information, please see the website of the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures at Ryukoku University.
(https://rcwbc.ryukoku.ac.jp/activity/2350)
Sincerely yours.
Takahiko Kameyama
CFP>
AAR 2019 Korean Religions Unit
by A. Charles Muller
Call for
Papers:
For our standalone panel(s), the
Korean Religions Unit welcomes proposals for papers sessions, roundtable
sessions, and individual papers. Proposals in all areas of Korean Religions
will be considered, but we are especially interested in working around the
following themes as they relate to religion in Korea:● Reunification of the Korean Peninsula
● Peace Process between North and South Korea
● Refugees/Migrants
● March First Movement
Additionally, we have two topics proposed by AAR members who will serve as panel organizers. If you would like to contribute to one of the following potential panels, please contact the organizer directly.
● Material Culture and Korean Religions, Organizer: Liora Sarfati Email: lsarfati@tauex.tau.ac.il -
Objects play an important role in Korean religions. From Ancestor altars, to churches, shamanic offerings, and golden Buddha statues, the religious practice is embedded in the material world. This panel offers to explore the roles of objects in religious practice and belief in its broadest sense, both historically and in contemporary Korea. Panel proposals can discuss meanings and uses of artefacts in Korean religion, and theoretical perspectives related to the agency of objects, their affect, and the relationship between verbal, behavioural and material social constructs related to any religious manifestation in Korea.
● Transnational Networks and Connections in Korean Religions, Organizer: Sungjin Im Email: sungjin.im2@duke.edu -
This panel invites papers that explore connections between Korean religions and their counterparts in other countries and/or within the Korean diaspora, transnational expressions of Korean religions, Korean religions and transnational identities, and other related topics.
Finally, we invite proposals for the following panel co-sponsored with the New Religious Movements Unit and the Sikh Studies Unit:
● Innovations in Asian Religions - A co-sponsored session with the Korean Religions Unit, New Religious Movements Unit, and the Sikh Studies Unit.
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