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- CFA> Doctoral School Specialist Course: "Buddhism
and Medicine in East Asia" Ghent University June, 2020
- LECTURE/SEMINAR > 31 Jan - 1 Feb 2020: Robert H.
N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in Chinese Buddhism at SOAS: S.
Travagnin (Groningen)
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Doctoral School Specialist Course: "Buddhism and Medicine in East
Asia" Ghent University June, 2020
by Charles DiSimone
The Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent
University, Belgium, is pleased to announce the following Doctoral School
Specialist Course: "Buddhism and Medicine in East Asia"
Date:
June 22-26, 2020
Venue:
Ghent University
This specialist course will focus on
an interdisciplinary approach to the intersection of religion and medicine in
medieval and late imperial East Asia, with a particular focus on Buddhism. As a
religious and cultural tradition with transnational scope, Buddhism played an
important role in circulating medical knowledge around Asia. This course
focuses on this history from the perspectives of Religious Studies, History of
Medicine, Sinology, and Translation Studies. The five-day course will have
4 to 4.5 contact hours a day (21 contact hours all together) that include
lectures, text readings, presentations by the participants, discussions, and
documentary film screenings.
Thanks to the generous support of the
Tianzhu foundation, we are pleased to award up to 800 Euros in travel
remuneration for 5 International PhD students. This money can be used for
travel, accommodation, and meals. To apply for this travel grant, please send a
one-page cover letter and your CV to Ann.Heirman@UGent.be
by January 31st, 2020. The selected candidates will be notified by February
15th, 2020.
Lecturers:
Prof. dr. C.
Pierce Salguero (Penn State University – Abington College)
dr. Leslie de Vries (University of
Kent)
Prof. dr. Ann Heirman (Ghent
University)
Tentative schedule:
Monday, June
22: Orientations
10:00-10:30: Welcome
Greetings*
10:30-12:00: Buddhist
medicine in a global context (Pierce Salguero)*
12:00-13:30: Lunch
Break
13:30-16:00:
Presentation of current research projects/questions by all participants
(moderated by Leslie de Vries)*
Tuesday, June
23: Medieval China
10:00-12:00: Buddhist
healing in medieval China (Pierce Salguero) *
12:00-13:30: Lunch
Break
13:30-15:30: Health
and bodily practices in Chinese Buddhist monastic practice (Ann Heirman) *
Wednesday, June
24: Cross-cultural movements and translations
10:00-12:00: Buddhism
and medicine in transit (China, Japan, Vietnam) (Leslie de Vries)*
12:00-13:30: Lunch
Break
13:30-15:30: Analysis
of medieval Chinese practices of translation (Pierce Salguero)**
Thursday,
June 25: Primary Text Readings
10:00-12:00: Text
reading: “On Eliminating Disease” from Sūtra of Golden Light (Pierce
Salguero)**
12:00-13:30: Lunch
Break
13:30-15:30: Text
reading: “Buddhism and scholarly medicine: A selection of passages from the
medical literature” (Leslie de Vries)**
Friday, June
26: Integrating Research and Teaching
10:00-12:00: Film
screening and discussion: Buddhist healing in a contemporary diasporic
community in North America (Pierce Salguero)*
12:00-13:30: Lunch
Break
13:30-16:00: Open
discussion about integrating research and teaching based on this seminar
(moderated by Andreas Niehaus)*
* Lectures also
suitable for a general audience (no Sinological background needed) (15 hours)
** Sinological
background needed (6 hours)
LECTURE/SEMINAR
> 31 Jan - 1 Feb 2020: Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Lecture Series in
Chinese Buddhism at SOAS: S. Travagnin (Groningen)
by Emanuela Sala
Dear all,we are very excited to announce the second Ho lecture of this academic year (and the first of 2020), sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.
Our speaker will be Dr.
Stefania Travagnin, from Groningen University.
Her lecture, with the
title "Invisible Nuns and Ancillary Female Temples: Unfolding a
Different Narrative of Modern Chinese Buddhism", will be held on
Friday, 31 January 2020, in SWLT (Senate House), at SOAS University of London.
The following day Dr.
Travagnin wil hold a seminar entitled "The Discourse(s) of Modern
Sichuan Buddhism: Interactive Networks and the Reconstruction of Local
Religious and Cultural History".
The lecture will be free
and open to all. The seminar is also free, but requires
registration. To register, please email me at es27@soas.ac.uk.
You can find more
information below and on our website.
The is the second event in
a series of three; watch this space for more news!
Looking forward,
Emanuela Sala
Assistant
Centre of Buddhist
Studies
SOAS University of
London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell
Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Email: es27@soas.ac.uk
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LECTURE
Invisible Nuns and Ancillary Female
Temples
Unfolding a Different Narrative of
Modern Chinese Buddhism
31 January 2020
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Senate House, SWLT
