Nov 6 at 7:30 pm and Nov 7 at 8:00 pm at UNC’s Memorial Hall The 20th century English composer Benjamin Britten wrote Curlew River after watching Juro Motomasa’s noh play Sumidagawa in Japan. Unmistakable in the music of Curlew River are the … Read more
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, Religious Studies Colloquium Series http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/rel_activities.html The Invention of “Religion” in Japan Jason Ānanda Josephson Associate Professor of Religion, Williams College Thursday, October 16, 2014, 4:30 p.m. Riddick Hall, Room 321 … Read more
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, Religious Studies Colloquium Series http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/rel_activities.html The Invention of “Religion” in Japan Jason Ānanda Josephson Associate Professor of Religion, Williams College Thursday, October 16, 2014, 4:30 p.m. Riddick Hall, Room 321 … Read more
Area of Study: Doctoral student in Japanese history and a Graduate Phillips Ambassador Prior degrees: I have a bachelor’s degree in comparative languages and literature from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and a master’s degree in Asian studies from the … Read more
The Institute of Critical Theory hosts an international conference to consider the historical, political, and philosophical issues raised in Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of History (Duke University Press). Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Duke Graduate School, Asian/Pacific Studies … Read more
Please join us for a reception to celebrate the publication of monographs by our Hwansoo Kim and Pamela Winfield during the past year. Hwansoo Kim, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke, has published … Read more
CLICK HERE FOR CONFERENCE REGISTRATION PROGRAM Friday, April 11 1:00-4:00pm: Workshop with Triangle-area graduate students 4:30-6:00pm: Keynote Address: Anne Allison, Duke Saturday, April 12 9:30am: Coffee 10:00am-1:00pm: Labor, Ethnicity, Marginalized Sites, and Elided Presences “How Do We Temporize ‘Precariousness’?” – Yukiko … Read more
This talk has been postponed due to inclement weather. DATE: March 3, 2014 LOCATION: Room 229, Carr Bldg, Duke East Campus TIME: 12:00-1:30pm
Join the Duke Gardens for a moment of respite in the teahouse, where you will experience the warmth of a traditional Japanese tea gathering. Enjoy the aesthetics, poetry and serenity of this rich tradition over an enticing bowl of whisked … Read more
This talk reinterprets the Shingon hasso gyōjōzu (Deeds of the Shingon Eight Patriarchs) as a visual metaphor in which images of the deeds of the Shingon patriarchs are simultaneously mapped onto celebrated episodes from Xuanzang’s historic journey to India. An analysis of the installation of the Gyōjōzu paintings in the Shingondō further reveals that the Daijō-in supervised the production of the paintings as a pivotal means of demonstrating the legitimacy of practicing Esoteric Buddhism side by side with Hossō Buddhism at its branch temple, Eikyūji. Based on this evidence, my talk also suggests that the Gyōjōzu was painted by Fujiwara Munehiro, the court painter renowned for … Read more
