Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: Workshop: Words, Deities, Icons: Exploring Ritual Performance in Premodern Japan, SOAS London, May 12-13, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: Workshop: Words, Deities, Icons: Exploring Ritual
Performance in Premodern Japan, SOAS London, May 12-13, 2011


> H-ASIA
> May 11, 2011
>
> Workshop: [THIS WEEK] Words, Deities, Icons: Exploring Ritual
> Performance in Premodern Japan, SOAS London, May 12-13, 2011
>
> (x-post H-Buddhism)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Benedetta Lomi <benedettalomi@gmail.com>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The SOAS Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions (CSJR) is pleased
> to announce the programme for its 2011 Summer Workshop: Words Deities
> Icons: Exploring Ritual Performance in Premodern Japan.
>
> We are also delighted to announce that on the occasion of the workshop
> there will be a public screening of the documentary film The Flower
> Assembly Rite (Hana'e-shiki) of Yakushiji ( 71 minutes - Japanese with
> English subtitles) directed by Matsuo Koichi (National Museum of
> Japanese History). The film will be screened in the Brunei Gallery
> Lecture Theater on Thursday May 12th from 17:30 to 19:30 and will be
> followed by a Q&A with the director.
>
> We hope that those of you who are in the London area will be able to
> attend.
>
> SOAS
>
> Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions
> Summer Workshop
>
> Words Deities Icons
> Exploring Ritual Performance in Premodern Japan
>
>
>
> May 12-13 2011
>
> Brunei Gallery, SOAS
>
>
>
> Words, deities and icons are fundamental and entwined elements of
> religious liturgies, as suggested by ritual, iconographical and
> literary evidence. In recent years, the joint investigation of textual
> material, temple architecture, sacred images and iconography has
> remarkably enhanced our knowledge of premodern practices, opening up
> new avenues for the understanding of Japanese religion. This has
> nourished the interest of Japanese and foreign scholars of Japanese
> religious culture, stimulating fruitful collaborations.
>
> This workshop brings together researchers from different institutions
> and disciplines to explore the dynamics of ritual performance in
> premodern Japan by looking at the role that human and divine agency,
> sculptures and paintings, ceremonial space and sacred texts played in
> the construction of ritual.
>
>
>
> Programme
>
> 12 May 2011, Room B111, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
>
>
>
> 10:00-10:15 Introduction and Welcome
>
> 10:15–12:00 Panel 1 – Doing Things with Words
> Discussant: Abe Yasurô (Nagoya University)
>
> CHIKAMOTO Kensuke (University of Tsukuba)
> The sermons (shodo) of Gedatsubo Jokei: The Background and Structure of
> the Solemn Words used in Buddhist Assemblies
>
> Stephan Licha (SOAS)
> The Word and the Flesh: Embryology, Immortality and the All-penetrating
> Body in Medieval Sôtô Zen
>
> INOSE Chihiro (Nagoya University)
> The Integration of Words, Sounds and Images in Secret Music Transmission
> Rituals: A Preliminary Analysis and Reconstruction.
>
> 12:00–13:30 Lunch Break
>
> 13:30–15:15 Panel 2 – Texts and Images
> Discussant: John Carpenter (SOAS)
>
> Abe Mika (Showa Women's University)
> Reading the Yûzu Nembutsu Engi Emaki
>
> Benedetta Lomi (SOAS)
> Ritual Choreographies of the Rokujikyô: On the Role of Patrons, Monks and
> Fashionable Images in the Construction of the Ritual Practice.
>
> IZUMI Takeo (Tohoku University)
> Between Visibility and Invisibility: The Role of Iconography and
> Paintings in Buddhist Rituals from Late Heian to Early Kamakura Periods.
>
>
> 15:15–15:30 Tea Break
>
> 15:30–17:15 Panel 3 – The Politics of Ritual
> Discussant: Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
>
> YAMANO Ryutaro (University of Tsukuba)
> The Establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate and Buddhist Rituals
>
> Gaetan Rappo (University Of Geneva – EPHE Paris)
> Ritual Warfare in Medieval Japan: A Study of Monkan's Gyakuto-taiji
> Goma-shidai
>
> UEJIMA Susumu (Kyoto Prefectural University)
> The Monks who Created Liturgical Assemblies and Their Thought
>
>
> 17:30–19:30 Screening: The Flower Assembly Rite (Hana'e-shiki)
> of Yakushiji
> Brunei Gallery Lecture Theater
>
> 13 May 2011, Room B104, Brunei Gallery, SOAS
>
>
> 10:00–12:30 Panel 4 – The Construction of Ritual Space
> Discussant: Timon Screech (SOAS)
>
> MATSUO Koichi (National Museum of Japanese
> History)
> Ritual Space and The People of the Combinatory Rituals of the Nara
> Temples:
> The Assemblies of the First Month (shushô-e) and of the Second Month
> (shuni-e) at Horyuji and Yakushiji
>
> Tatsuma Padoan (University of Venice and LISaV)
> Body, Discourse, and Translation: Reconfiguring the Ritual Space of
> Katsuragi in the Thirteenth Century
>
> YAMAGISHI Tsuneto (Kyoto University)
> Medieval Temple Halls and the Role of the Leading Celebrants in the
> Buddhist Assemblies
>
> 12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
>
> 14:00–16:00 Panel 5 – Ritual Agency
> Discussant: Gaynor Sekimori (SOAS)
>
> Anna Andreeva (Heidelberg University)
> Snake Deities and Esoteric Kami Rituals in Miwaryû Tradition
>
> Noriko Horsley (SOAS)
> Emerging and Disappearing Deities, the Formation and Transformation of
> Goryô-e in the Early Middle Ages
>
> FUJIOKA Yutaka (Osaka University)
> Bodies in Procession and Living Bodies: The statue of Shotoku Taishi of
> Shoryoin (Shitennoji)
>
> 16:00–16:15 Tea Break
>
> 16:15–17:30 Roundtable Discussion Abe Yasurô and Lucia Dolce
>
> For further information, please contact Dr Lucia Dolce at ld16@soas.ac.uk
>
>
> Benedetta Lomi
> Assistant to the Chair
> Centre for the Study of Religions
> School of Oriental and African Studies
> Russell Square
> Thornhaugh Street
> London WC1H 0XG
> United Kingdom
>
> http://www.soas.ac.uk/csjr/
> bl21@soas.ac.uk
>
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