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2004-2005 Calendar of Events

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Tibet Week 2004

Sept. 13-17, 2004
Co-sponsored by the Religion Department. For complete information, see the Tibet Week Web page: http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/AS/events/Tibetweek2004.htm or contact Martha Shockey at 404-727-6280.

Welcome Reception for Religion Students
Undergraduate Religion Majors and Minors: please join us for tea

Wed., Sept. 22, 2004, 6 pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library
The Religion Department faculty would be delighted to greet all of our undergraduate majors and minors and to discuss our curriculum, awards, and programs as well as other issues raised by students. If you plan to attend, please rsvp to the department no later than September 13. We look forward to a wonderful evening of good fellowship and exchange.

Transnational China: Science, Religion, and Trade
A workshop on global interactions with China from the fifteenth through early twentieth centuries
October 1-2

Fri., Oct. 1 , 2004, 4 -6 pm
White Hall 112
Keynote lecture by Benjamin A. Elman (Princeton University)
"Tradutore, Traditore: Constructing Science in China 1600-1900"
Professor Elman's lecture will spotlight the scientific texts translated jointly by Christian missionaries and Chinese literati since 1600. Each side made a virtue out of the mutually contested accommodation project, and each converted the other's forms of natural studies into acceptable local conventions of knowledge. The science texts the Jesuit and Protestant missionaries successfully translated into classical Chinese were encoded with Christian messages and religiously-induced silences about Copernicus and Darwin. Europeans sought the technological secrets for silk, porcelain, and tea production from the Chinese. Chinese literati borrowed new algebraic notations, geometry, trigonometry, logarithms, and the calculus from the West. Indeed, the epistemological premises of modern Western science were not triumphant in China until the early twentieth century.
Followed by a reception.

Sat., Oct. 2, 2004, 9 am - 6 pm
White Hall 200
9-11 am, Session 1: Trade
Lucille Chia (University of California, Riverside): “The Impact of Trade with and Migration to the Philippines on Southern Fujian, 16th-18th Centuries: Some Preliminary Observations”
Tonio Andrade (Emory University): “Chinese Entrepreneurs under European Rule: The Case of He Tingbin”

11:15-11:45 am, at Woodruff Library Special Collections
The Young J. Allen Papers at Emory University, introduced by Eric Reinders [Note this is only event not in White Hall 200 this day.]

1-3 pm, Session 2: Science
Hugh Shapiro (University of Nevada at Reno): “The Birth of Nervousness: Neurasthenia in Modern China”
Joachim Kurtz (Emory University): “Disciplining the National Essence: Liu Shipei’s Reorganization of China’s Intellectual History”

3:30-5:30 pm, Session 3: Religion
James L. Hevia (University of Chicago): “Translating China: Missionaries, Diplomats, and China Knowledge c. 1850-1900.”
Eric Reinders (Emory University): “Penetration of the Interior: Victorian Missions to China and the Necessity of Violence.”

All welcome. All events free. CLICK HERE for flyer in pdf format. For more information, call Eric Reinders at 404-727-6186 or 404-727-7596. Sponsored by the departments of History, Religion, Russian & East Asian Languages & Cultures, the East Asian Studies Program, the Graduate Division of Religion, and the Institute for Comparative and International Studies.

 

Beneath the Banyan Tree: Ritual Remembrance and Storytelling in Performed Indian Folk Arts

Oct. 20 - Dec. 31, 2004
Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library
Opening program: October 24, 2004, 4 p.m. Gallery talk by Susan S. Wadley, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Syracuse University, and curator of the exhibit. Reception follows.

The exhibition focuses on several forms of performed folk art that capture the intersection of ritual, performance and art in the living traditions of India. Performance art traditions from several regions of India will be featured: Bengali storytelling scrolls (pata), women’s ritual paintings from the Mithila region of India, lost-wax brass sculptures from Chhattisgarh, shadow puppets from Andhra Pradesh, and large epic storytelling scrolls (par) and storytelling boxes from Rajasthan. Reflecting traditions thousands of years old as well as modern events, these art forms remind their audiences of the stories of the gods and goddesses with whom their human devotees share the world. The exhibition also examines the social and artistic changes taking place within these traditions in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Sponsored by Emory Asian Studies Program and The Schatten Gallery. Cosponsored by Institute for Comparative and International Studies, Department of Religion, Department of Middle East and South Asian Studies, Center for Public Scholarship, and Graduate Division of Religion.

For more information please contact the Asian Studies Program at 404-727-6280.

Zev Alexander: "Faith Under Fire: Narratives of Trauma and Resilience Among Jerusalem's Religious Emergency Volunteers"

Thurs., Oct. 21, 2004, 4 pm
Candler Library 101
Sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department of Religion. For more information, call 404-727-6301.

Kamari Clarke, Yale University: "Mapping Transnational Networks"

Thurs., Oct. 21, 2004, 4 pm
White Hall 200
Sponsored by the Institute of African Studies, the Religion Department, and The Hightower Fund. For more information, call 404-727-6402.

 

Steven Nadler: "Rembrandt's Jews"

Mon., Oct. 25, 2004, 7 pm
White Hall 205
The Department of History presents a lecture by Prof. Steven Nadler entitled "Rembrandt's Jews." Prof. Nadler is the Max & Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the George L. Mosse/Lawrence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Department of Religion, the Art History Department and the Philosophy Department. For information, call the History Department.

Mind-Body Medicine at the Interface of Mood and Health:
Tibetan Buddhist and Western Perspectives on Depression in the Medically Ill

Sat., Nov. 13, 2004, 1-5:30 pm
Cox Hall Ballroom
Registration required, event is free and open to the public.ircle

Scientific developments over the last decade have provided increasing support for a central tenet of Tibetan Buddhist medicine: that mind and body interact with each other via bi-directional pathways to cause disease and to promote health. Drawing on Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives, this symposium will examine these mind-body connections as they pertain to the conceptualization, diagnosis and treatment of depression in persons who are medically ill. The seminar will include a lecture covering Western views on how the mind and body contribute to the symptoms of depression and a lecture on Tibetan Buddhist understanding of depression. Panelists include Dr. Pema Dorje, a renowned Tibetan physician, Dr. Philip Ninan and Dr. Charles Raison of the Emory Medical School and Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi of the Emory Religion Department. Go to www.icis.emory.edu/emorytibet/ for schedule and registration information. We encourage you to register as soon as possible. For more information please call 404-727-6280.

Brown bag lunch with P. S. Jacob
Being Indian/Being Christian: Minority Religious Identity
in the World’s Largest Democracy

Wed., Nov. 17, 2004, 12 noon
Callaway Center S221
Bring your own lunch
Drinks and cookies provided

Professor Plamthodathil S. Jacob is Principal Emeritus of Ahmadnagar College and Professor in the Religion and Society Programme at Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, India. He is the Co-editor with Krickwin C. Marak of Conversion in a Pluralistic Context: Perspectives and Perceptions (Delhi: CMS/ISPCK, 2000). Prof. Jacob was a visiting professor in the Religion Department in the early 1990s and he is the father of Nitya Jacob who teaches in Natural Sciences at Emory’s Oxford College. For more information, call the Religion Department at 404-727-7566.

Tea with Prof. Purushottam Agrawal

Tues., Nov. 30, 2004, 4 pm
Candler Library 212
Hear an informal talk by Purushottam Agrawal and enjoy tea hosted by the Religion Department. Professor Agrawal is the author of prize-winning books in Hindi on medieval Indian literature, literary criticism, and culture. In addition he has lectured widely in India, Europe, and Mexico on religion, literature, and politics in contemporary India.

Lecture by Prof. Purushottam Agrawal:
"India after the elections: a time for introspection"

Mon., Dec. 6, 2004, 8 pm
White Hall 112
Click here to download flyer in pdf format.

 

Spring 2005 events

Edna Bay: “Cultures, Cults and Christianity: The Making of Haitian Vodou and Beninese Catholicism” (Recent Research in Religion Series)

Wed., Feb. 16, 2005, 3-5 pm
Callaway Center S221
Prof. Bay is an associate professor in the Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University

 

Arshia Sattar: “Censorship and Freedom of Expression in India”

Mon. & Tues., Feb. 21 & 22, 2005, 5-7:30 pm each day
Emory Conference Center, Azalea Room

Interdisciplinary seminar series with Arshia Sattar, cultural critic, translator, activist, & documentary filmmaker from Pune, India. Co-sponsored by with funding from the Hightower Fund,the Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund jointly sponsored by Of fi ce of Provost and GSAS, the Film Studies Program,the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department,the Asian Studies Program,the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts' Program in Culture,History and Theory.

Faculty, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with an interest in media and film as well as the issues of globalization would make ideal candidates to participate in this endeavor. Click here to download flyer in pdf format. Please email a two-line rsvp with your academic research concerns to Prof. Laurie Patton.

 

Lecture by Dr. Roshan Shahani (Jai Hind College, Univ. of Bombay)
“Perspectives on Bombay’s Parsi-Zoroastrian Community”

Sat., March 12, 2005, 4 pm
White Hall 101
Dr. Shahani's talk will focus on issues facing Bombay’s Parsi Zoroastrians, a miniscule ethno-religious community numbering 70,000 in a nation of 1 billion people. Wine and Hors d'Oeuvres reception follows. Presented by the Asian Studies Program and co-sponsored by MESAS, the Department of Religion, and Spelman's Political Science Department.

 

Sharon Strocchia: “Sisters in Spirit: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio and their Consorority in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence” (Recent Research in Religion Series)

NOTE: This event has been cancelled and may be re-scheduled 2005-2006.

Lucius Outlaw (Vanderbilt University): Series on “Religion, Philosophy & Race”

Mon. & Tues., March 28 & 29, 2005
All events at Emory Conference Center, 1615 Clifton Road N.E.

Monday, March 28, 4:00 pm
Lecture "On Democratic Pluralism" Free and open to the public. (Followed by further exploration of the theme of democratic pluralism via exploration of two readings in two lecture/seminars; for participation in the seminars, your rsvp is requested to the Department.)

Monday, March 28, 7:30 pm
Lecture/Seminar: “Alexis de Tocqueville and Intellectual Descendants”

Tuesday, March 29, 7:30 pm
Lecture/Seminar: “Ralph Ellison and Related Issues”

Seminar participants should rsvp to: joy.wasson@emory.edu, sending their name and affiliation. Readings will be made available in the Religion Dept. office.

About Dr. Outlaw:

Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. is Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College. His teaching and scholarly interests include: Racial Matters in socio-political life, in the United States in particular, and in legacies and practices of European and Euro-American Philosophy; Social and Political Philosophy; Africana Philosophy (African; African American, for example, Martin Delany, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, among others); and American Philosophy.
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Sponsored by the Department of Religion with funding from the Department of Philosophy, the African American Studies Program, the Hightower Fund, the Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund jointly sponsored by Office of Provost and GSAS
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For more information, contact: Dept. of Religion, 404-727-7596
Click here to download flyer in pdf format

Masters of Kathakali: Classical Dance from South India

Wed., March 30, 2005, 6:30 pm
Performing Arts Studio, 1804 N. Decatur Rd.
Free and open to the public. Presented by Emory Asian Studies Program and ANAMICA with co-sponsors: Religion Department, Dance Program, Theater Department, Music Department, and the Hightower Fund. For more information, contact Martha Shockey in Asian Studies.

 

Kevin V. Kelly, M.D.
Rescue Fantasies and Recovery Realities: Working with the FDNY After 9/11

Wed., April 27, 2005, 4 pm
White Hall 103
Dr. Kevin V. Kelly is a Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist in private practice in New York, Clinical Associate Professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Columbia University Center of Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Since 9/11 Dr. Kelly has been working with the Fire Department of the City of New York on issues of post-traumatic stress syndrome. He has been especially attentive to issues having to do with organizational and family systems in relation to stress, trauma, and loss. This lecture is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Religion Department with support from the Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Violence Studies Program. For more information, contact the Religion Department at 404-727-7596.

Other past Religion Department events calendars:

Fall 2003-Spring 2004 events

Fall 2002-Spring 2003 events

Fall 2001-Spring 2002 events

Spring 2001 events

Fall 2000 events

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