CSJR Seminars & Postgraduate Fora
Seminars, lectures and public talks, hosted by the SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions2012
February
09/02/12
- Buddhist Eschatology and the Design of Dazhusheng Cave, Henan
Dr Wendi Adamek (University of Sydney)
23/02/12
- Phallicism and Fertility in Contemporary Japan: Ancient Traditions or Urban Myths?
Dr Stephen Turnbull (University of Leeds)
March
08/03/12
- Women in Japanese Faith-Based Volunteer Groups: From Continuity to Innovation
Paola Cavaliere (University of Sheffield)
22/03/12
- Catholic Missionaries and Medieval Japan
Dr Kenji Igawa (Osaka University)
April
19/04/12
- Invisible eclipses: social and religious factors in the history of Japanese calendrical astronomy, 877-1268
Kristina Buhrman (University of Southern California)
May
02/05/12
- A Single history of Christianity in East Asia: China-Japan interaction of the past and East Asian Christianities today
Dr Kiri Paramore (Leiden University)
03/05/12
- Christianity and sacred space in Nagasaki
Carla Tronu Montané (SOAS)
October
05/10/12
- International Workshop: Where Art Meets Ritual
This workshop aims to examine aspects of the Japanese religious and artistic experience through the analysis of texts, images and performance. The papers presented will focus on the visual and semantic analysis of Buddhist paintings and explore ritual performance, including rituals which do not necessarily belong to a category of ‘religion.’
November
23/11/12
- The Great Image has No Form: Towards a Daoist Visual Theory
Dr Gil Raz (Dartmouth)
30/11/12
- Schopenhauer: Europe's First Buddhist?
Dr Urs App
