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Graduate Student Symposium, The Science and Technology of Buddhism
- Workshop:
Border-crossing and Migration in Early Medieval China, 23 May 2019
CFP> IBS
Graduate Student Symposium, The Science and Technology of Buddhism
by Scott Mitchell
Dear Colleagues,The 2019 Graduate Student Symposium at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley is now available.
The Science and Technology of Buddhism
Call for Papers
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2019
Symposium: October 17, 2019
The 2019 Graduate Student Symposium at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, funded in part by the BDK/Numata Foundation, will focus on how science and technology have shaped Buddhism historically and in the present, globalized world. Technological innovation has a direct impact on how Buddhism is practiced, transmitted, and understood whether through developments in print technology in pre-modern Asia or the material analysis and Multi-Spectral Imaging (MSI) of Tibetan and Sanskrit manuscripts. How has the intersection of science and technology impacted Buddhism? What technologies in the past altered the way Buddhism spread across Asia or from Asia to the West? What impact are current scientific debates and digital technologies such as smart phones, tablet computers, and artificial intelligences having on how Buddhism is practiced or understood?
Current graduate students are encouraged to submit an abstract and paper title for consideration. Topics may include: the development of print technologies in Asia; the impact of early modern global transportation or communication networks on Buddhism’s spread outside Asia; the relationship between technology and practice either historically or contemporarily; case studies on how Buddhists use technology for propagating the dharma; case studies on current debates on the appropriateness of validity of scientific studies on Buddhism, meditation, or mindfulness practices; or other related topics.
Dr. Courtney Bruntz, Assistant Professor of Asian Religions at Doane University, will serve as keynote speaker. Dr. Bruntz’s work focuses on tourism and economics in mainland China, including the use of new media technology and robotics by Buddhist monastics. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book from University of Hawaii Press, Buddhist Tourism in Asia.
Graduate students at any stage of their program are encouraged to submit paper proposals. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Thomas Calobrisi (tcalobrisi@ses.gtu.edu). Please include your academic affiliation with your submission. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2019. Applicants will be notified about their submission by July 15, 2019.
Workshop:
Border-crossing and Migration in Early Medieval China, 23 May 2019
by Wen-Yi Huang
Dear Colleagues,I would like to bring your attention to our workshop at Harvard University entitled “Border-crossing and Migration in Early Medieval China.”
Date: 10am-5:00pm, Thursday, May 23, 2019
Venue: The Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
For more details, please visit our website:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/2019emcmigration/home-0
Programme
10:00-11:00 Panel 1, Going South
Evan Nicoll-Johnson (University of Alberta), “Guo Pu the Wanderer: Magic and Migration in the Jin Dynasty”
Lu Kou (Williams College), “Detainees and Letters to Request Release in Early Medieval China”
11:00-12:00 Panel 2, The Mobility of Texts and Images
Keith N. Knapp (The Citadel), “Cultural Baggage: The Transmission and Spread of Accounts of Filial Offspring during the Northern and Southern Dynasties”
Fan Zhang (NYU-Shanghai), “Between Hexi and Pingcheng: Migration of Image, Style, and People”
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Panel 3, Looking Back and Around
Jack W. Chen (University of Virginia), “Looking Back across the River: Nostalgia as Migrancy in the Shishuo xinyu”
Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), “The Worlds on the Edge between Darkness and Light”
2:30-3:30 Panel 4, Rootedness, Relocation, and Identity
Andrew Chittick (Eckerd College), “Borderlands and Migration to North and South: A Study of the Qi Region in the Fifth Century CE”
Wen-Yi Huang (Harvard University), “How to Name People on the Move? A Case Study of the Northern Wei”
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:00 Panel 5, Moving Monks and Merchants
James Robson (Harvard University), “Monks, Movement, and Migration: A Preliminary Assessment of the Large Scale Movement of Buddhist Monks in Early Medieval China”
Jin Xu (Vassar College), “Picturing Cosmopolitan Migration: The Sixth-century Funerary Reliefs of a Sogdian Couple’s Journey on the Silk Road”
6:00 Dinner
Best regards,
Wen-Yi Huang
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
wenyihuang(at)fas.harvard.edu
