Academic Program of Panels and Sections
The panels and sections of the Congress will take place in two buildings on Emory’s main campus: White Hall (abbreviated as WH in the program) and the Math and Sciences Center (abbreviated as MS in the program). Panels have been organized by one or more conveners, who are listed in the program. The conveners are responsible for determining content and structure of the panel (e.g., whether questions will be entertained at the end of each paper or will be reserved for a discussion period at the end of the panel, and so on). Sections have been organized by the conference planning committee, who have grouped together papers that were submitted individually. In the sections, each presenter is entitled to determine how best to use his or her thirty minutes (i.e., whether to speak for the full thirty minutes or to leave time for questions at the end). All the panels and sections have a moderator, who is responsible for introducing the speakers, and ensuring that they keep to the published timetable. It is imperative that all presentations begin on the hour and the half-hour in accord with the published program so that conference participants may attend the papers they wish to hear.
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Monday June 23
2:00pm-4:00pm ConvocationTuesday June 24
9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Panels & Sections (1)Panel: Academic Discipline of Buddhist Studies in North America
Panel Convenor: Charles Prebish
Room: White Hall 111
Panel: Chinese Buddhist Meditation Practices and Chan
Panel Convenors: John McRae and Eric Goodell
Room: White Hall 205
Panel: Tibetan Scholasticism in the 11th and 12th Centuries I
Panel Convenors: Pascale Hugon, Kazuo Kano and Kevin Vose
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Universal Claims, Postcolonial Frames I: An Interdisciplinary Session on Bodhgaya
Panel Convenors: Tara Doyle and David Geary
Room: White Hall 207
Section: Early Buddhism
Room: Math/Science N302
Section: Himalayan Buddhism
Room: White Hall 110
Section: Textual and Philological Studies
Room: Math/Science N304
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Panels & Sections (2)
Panel: Indian Buddhist Metaethics
Room: White Hall 205
Panel: Rebirth of Buddhist Scholasticisms in Twentieth-Century China
Panel Convenors: Eyal Aviv and Jason Clower
Room: White Hall 110
Panel: Tibetan Scholasticism in the 11th and 12th Centuries II
Panel Convenors: Pascale Hugon, Kazuo Kano and Kevin Vose
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Universal Claims, Postcolonial Frames II: An Interdisciplinary Session on Bodhgaya
Panel Convenors: Tara Doyle and David Geary
Room: White Hall 207
Section: Buddhism and the West
Room: Math/Science N304
Section: Narrative Studies
Room: Math/Science N302
Section: Vajrayāna Buddhism
Room: White Hall 111
Wednesday June 25
9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Panels & Sections (3)Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy I: The Two Truths in India and Tibet
Panel Convenors: Jan Westerhoff and Jay Garfield
Room: White Hall 111
Panel: How Theravāda is Theravāda? I
Panel Convenor: Peter Skilling
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Miracles and Superhuman Powers in Buddhism
Panel Convenor: David Fiordalis
Room: White Hall 207
Section: Buddhist Art
Room: White Hall 205
Section: Contemporary Developments in Buddhism
Room: White Hall 110
Section: Hermeneutics, Scholasticism, and Commentarial Techniques
Room: Math/Science N304
Section: Vinaya Studies
Room: Math/Science N302
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Panels & Sections (4)
Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy II: The Two Truths in East Asia
Panel Convenors: Jay Garfield and Jan Westerhoff
Room: White Hall 111
Panel: Buddhism in the Writings of Ippolito Desideri, S.J. (1684-1733)
Panel Convenor: Trent Pomplun
Room: Math/Science N304
Panel: How Theravāda is Theravāda? II
Panel Convenor: Peter Skilling
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Mahāmudrā: Approaching the Great Seal
Panel Convenors: Lara Braitstein and Roger Jackson
Room: White Hall 205
Panel: New Research in Avadāna Literature
Panel Convenor: Andy Rotman
Room: White Hall 110
Section: Dunhuang
Room: White Hall 207
Section: Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
Room: Math/Science N302
Thursday June 26
9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Panels & Sections (5)Panel: Analyzing and Advancing Buddhist Philosophy III: Philosophical Reflections on the Two Truths
Panel Convenors: Jay Garfield and Jan Westerhoff
Room: White Hall 111
Panel: Beyond Simple Constructions of So-called Humanistic Buddhism (renjian fojiao): Reinterpreting Modernity in 20th Century Buddhism in China and Taiwan
Panel Convenor: Esther-Maria Guggenmos
Room: White Hall 110
Panel: Buddhist Monumental Sculpture and Architecture
Panel Convenor: Cameron David Warner
Room: White Hall 207
Panel: Mahāyāna Sūtras
Panel Convenor: Jonathan Silk
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Representations of Brahmins and Brahminism in Early Buddhist Literatures
Panel Convenor: Brian Black
Room: Math/Science N302
Panel: Theory and Practice of Healing, Medicine and Longevity in Buddhism
Panel Convenors: Geoffrey Samuel and Robert Mayer
Room: White Hall 205
Section: Ethnographic Studies
Room: Math/Science N304
Friday June 27
9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Panels & Sections (6)Panel: Borobudur in International Perspective
Panel Convenor: Hudaya Kandahjaya
Room: White Hall 110
Panel: Buddhist Funerary Cultures: Art, Text, Ritual, Performance I
Panel Convenors: Pattaratorn Chirapravati and Justin McDaniel
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Gandhāran Manuscripts and Gandhāran Buddhism I
Panel Convenor: Richard Salomon
Room: White Hall 207
Panel: Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Models of Truth or Reality in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism I
Panel Convenor: Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Room: White Hall 205
Panel: Wŏnhyo (617-686) and his Comprehensive Buddhist Philosophical Vision
Panel Convenor: Charles Muller
Room: Math/Science N302
Panel: "Terms of Art" in Indian Esoteric Buddhism
Panel Convenors: David Gray and Christian Wedemeyer
Room: Math/Science N304
Section: South Asian Buddhism
Room: White Hall 111
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Panels & Sections (7)
Panel: Buddhist Funerary Cultures: Art, Text, Ritual, Performance II
Panel Convenors: Pattaratorn Chirapravati and Justin McDaniel
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Gandhāran Manuscripts and Gandhāran Buddhism II
Panel Convenor: Richard Salomon
Room: White Hall 207
Panel: Humor in Buddhism
Panel Convenor: Shayne Clarke
Room: White Hall 110
Panel: Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Models of Truth or Reality in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism II
Panel Convenor: Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Room: White Hall 205
Section: Buddhist Theories of Mind and Meditation
Room: Math/Science N304
Section: East Asian Buddhism
Room: White Hall 111
Section: Logic and Epistemology
Room: Math/Science N302
Saturday June 28
9:00 am – 12:30 pm: Panels & Sections (8)Panel: Buddhist Theories of Self-Awareness (svasamvedanā): Interpretation and Critique
Panel Convenor: Birgit Kellner
Room: White Hall 110
Panel: Pioneer Translators, Missionaries, and their Transmitted Texts
Panel Convenor: Mariko Namba Walter
Room: Math/Science N304
Panel: Re-examining Tibetan Auto/biographical Writing
Panel Convenors: Andrew Quintman and Sarah Jacoby
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Recovering Anew the Lotus Sutra's Originality as a Religio-Philosophical System
Panel Convenor: Joseph Logan
Room: White Hall 207
Section: East Asian Buddhist Philosophy
Room: White Hall 111
Section: Southeast Asian, Inner Asian, Korean and Mongolian Buddhism
Room: Math/Science N302
Section: Technology and Resources
Room: White Hall 205
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Panels & Sections (9)
Panel: Buddhist Commentarial Traditions: Transdiscursivity and Textual Production in Buddhist Intellectual History
Panel Convenor: Mark Dennis
Room: Math/Science N302
Panel: Facets of Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia
Panel Convenor: Charles Orzech
Room: White Hall 207
Panel: Uses and Abuses of the "Modern" in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism
Panel Convenors: Leigh Miller Sangster, Robert Barnett and Laura Harrington
Room: White Hall 111
Panel: Yogācāra Buddhism: Approaches
Panel Convenor: Tao Jiang
Room: White Hall 101
Panel: Śāntideva and the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
Panel Convenor: Ani Kunga Chodron
Room: White Hall 110
Section: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Room: Math/Science N304