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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Buddhist Exchange and Pioneer Buddhists Conf, Cork,
Ireland, 13-15 Sep 2012


> H-ASIA
> April 26, 2012
>
> Call for papers: Buddhist Exchange and Pioneer Buddhists Conference:
> "South-East Asia as a Crossroads for Buddhist Exchange: pioneer
> European Buddhists and Asian Buddhist networks 1860-1960", University
> College Cork, Ireland, 13-15 September 2012
>
> (x-post H-Buddhism)
> ***********************************************************************
> From: "Bocking, Brian" <B.Bocking@ucc.ie>
>
> Buddhist Exchange and Pioneer Buddhists Conference
>
> Conference Notice - 1st call for papers
>
> South-East Asia as a Crossroads for Buddhist Exchange: pioneer
> European Buddhists and Asian Buddhist networks 1860-1960
>
> Study of Religions Department, University College Cork, Ireland
>
> 13-15 September 2012
>
> The recent discovery of the extraordinary life of 'The Irish Buddhist'
> U Dhammaloka (documented in the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism
> 11:2, December 2010) has stimulated new avenues of research into
> numerous significant but neglected East-West and global Buddhist
> encounters. This conference focuses on forgotten or under-represented
> Buddhist pioneers, their connections and collaborations, and the
> contribution of these individuals and networks to the construction of
> Buddhist modernities.
>
> Casting South-East Asia as a 'cross roads' invites contributions on
> pioneer exchanges and connections not only between 'the West' and
> 'Asia' but also within Asia, from China, Korea and Japan through
> Southeast Asia to India and Ceylon. The period to be covered, broadly
> 1860-1960, is intended to include the earliest documented pioneer
> European [and e.g. Japanese] Buddhist practitioners of the colonial
> period whilst stopping short of the mass interest in Buddhism of the
> late 20th century. We are interested in any figures, groups or
> networks whose commitment to Asian Buddhist praxis in the colonial
> period contributed in some way to the emergence of modern global
> Buddhism and whose role was pioneering, rather than following a
> traditionally established path. We are equally interested in networks
> of exchange and communication such as trade routes, monastic
> interrelationships, military ventures, cultural exchanges, missionary
> enterprises and imperialist and socialist (etc.) institutions and
> ideas which enabled Buddhists to interact in pioneering ways during
> this period.
>
> Forgotten figures such as U Dhammaloka, despite their historical
> significance for these exchanges in colonial Asia, have long been
> obscured in conventional scholarly narratives which have presented a
> very small selection of 'pioneer' figures found respectable within
> today's Western Buddhist lineages or canonised in Asian
> accounts. Recent discoveries overturning these entrenched narratives
> have been made possible in part by the new digitisation and indexing
> of colonial-era newspapers, travel books, directories, missionary
> reports and other obscure and disparate sources which can provide -
> often fragmentary - pointers to lost lives and events which may in the
> end be documented only through traditional archival research. This
> conference aims to further this new and exciting field of research by
> bringing together scholars with a shared interest in global Buddhism
> and expertise in different periods and regions of Asia and the West.
>
> There are many contested issues and theoretical perspectives to be
> explored in this context, and we welcome papers of a theoretical
> nature so long as they are to some extent grounded in empirical
> examples.
>
> We intend to produce a journal special issue or edited volume based on
> papers presented at the conference.
>
> The conference will take place from Thursday afternoon 13th September
> to Saturday morning 15th September 2012 and is hosted by the Study of
> Religions Department, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. There is
> no conference fee but delegates will be responsible for their own
> travel and accommodation; there is plenty of moderately priced
> accommodation close by the University. Cork Airport is a short
> distance from the University and about 1hr by air from London and
> other major European hubs. Some limited financial support for
> postgraduates may be available.
>
> The conference is co-organised by Prof Brian Bocking and Dr Phibul
> Choompolpaisal (UCC Study of Religions Department) with an advisory
> committee comprising Dr Laurence Cox (NUIM, Ireland), Prof Alicia
> Turner (York University, Toronto), Dr Andrew Skilton (KCL, London) and
> Dr Kate Crosby (SOAS, London), in association with the 12-month
> postdoctoral research fellowship project 'Continuities and Transitions
> in Early Modern Thai Buddhism' at UCC supported by the Dhammakaya
> International Society of the United Kingdom. The Conference itself
> has a far wider remit than Thailand, and papers in all regions are
> warmly welcomed.
>
> The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday 9 July 2012, but
> abstracts will be considered as they are submitted from now on to
> facilitate your travel planning.
>
> If you hope to attend the conference we would appreciate an email
> indicating this a.s.a.p.
>
> A conference website will be established in the near future. In the
> meantime enquiries, expressions of interest and abstracts should be
> emailed to Prof Brian Bocking in Cork, email: b.bocking [at] ucc.ie or
> to Dr Phibul Choompolpaisal in Thailand, email: phibulart [at]
> yahoo.com
>
>
>
> Prof. Brian Bocking
> Study of Religions Department
> School of Asian Studies
> University College Cork (UCC)
> Cork, Ireland [no postcode]
>
> Dept. website: http://www.ucc.ie/en/studyofreligions/ New MA Contemporary
> Religions:
> http://www.ucc.ie/en/study/postgrad/what/acsss/masters/religion/
> Profile: http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A040/bbocking
> UCC e-Brochure: www.ucc.op-ireland.com <http://www.ucc.op-ireland.com/>
>
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