If you know of other sessions or events NOT INCLUDED IN THE NEWSLETTER that you would like to have brought to the attention of our Section members, PLEASE INFORM ANNE BLACKBURN (amb242@cornell.edu) BY NOVEMBER 11. SHE WILL CIRCULATE A FINAL PRE-AAR UPDATE IF NEEDED.
(1.) AAR Sessions of Particular Interest:
A37: Tibetan & Himalayan Religions Group, "Religious Life in the Time of the Fifth Dalai Lama." Presiding: Janet Gyatso; Presenting: Kurtis Schaeffer, Bryan Cuevas, Jacob Dalton, Trent Pomplun; Responding: Matthew Kapstein.
A44: Buddhism Section & Japanese Religions Group, "Colonialism, Transnational Exchange, and Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan." Presiding: Jacqueline Stone; Presenting: Micah Auerback, Akeshi Kiba, Pori Park, Fumihiko Sueki; Responding: Nam-lin Hur.
A45: Comparative Studies in Religion Section, "Reading, Remembering, and Reciting: Textual Prractice as Spiritual Practice." Presiding: Karen King; Presenting:David Carpenter, Shawn Madison Krahmer, Michael D. Swartz, Dale S. Wright; Responding: Janet Gyatso.
A65: Cultural History of the Study of Religion Consultation, "Toward a Cultural History of the Study of Religion." Presiding: Leigh E. Schmidt; Panelists: David S. Chidester, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Peter Harrison, Donald S. Lopez.G
A82: Buddhism Section, "Transnational Exchange and Buddhist Modernism in Asia." Presiding: James C. Dobbins; Presenting: Anne M. Blackburn, Anne R. Hansen, Kosei Ishii, Richard Jaffe; Responding: Richard King.
A83: Comparative Studies in Religion Section, Religion in South Asia Section, and Ritual Studies Group, "Ritual Levity, Ritual Play in South Asian Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu Traditions." Presiding: Daniel R. Gold; Panelists: Corinne Dempsey, William P. Harman, Rachel Fell McDermott, John Earl Llewellyn, Tracy Pintchman, Selva Raj, Whitney Sanford, Elizabeth L. Wilson; Responding: Jonathan Z. Smith.
A128: Tibetan & Himalayan Religions Group, "The Tibetan Buddhist Encounter with Modernity." Presiding: Matthew Kapstein; Presenting: Gray Tuttle, Yinong Zhang, Sharon J. Hepburn, Abraham Sablocki; Responding: Georges Dreyfus.
A130: Studies in Yogacara Buddhism Seminar, "Yogacara Buddhism in Interdisciplinary Perspectives." Presiding: Joe Wilson; Panelists: Mario D'Amato, William S. Waldron, John P. Keenan, Dan Lusthaus.
A131: Religions, Medicines, and Healing Consultation, "The Living and the Powerful Dead: Cases of Affliction and Healing." Presiding: Jualynne E. Dodson; Presenting: Ulrike Wiethaus, Paula K. R. Arai, Suzanne J. Crawford, Nathaniel S. Murrell; Responding: Linda L. Barnes.
A136: Buddhism Section, "Buddhist Manuscript Cultures." Presiding: Collett D. Cox; Presenting: Stephen C. Berkwitz, Damcho Diana Finnegan, Daniel Marc Viedlinger, Natalie Gummer; Responding: Anne Clark. FOLLOWED BY BUDDHISM SECTION BUSINESS MEETING.
Note: Buddhism Section Business Meeting: CC-717B on Sunday evening at approximately 6:15 p.m. Presiding: Anne M. Blackburn and Peter N. Gregory.
A151: Japanese Religions Group, "The Early Modern Characteristics of Tokugawa Religiosity." Presiding: Peter Nosco; Presenting: Diana E. Wright, Nam-lin Hur, Janine Tasca Sawada, Barbara Ambros; Responding: Helen Hardacre.
A158: Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Consultation, "Religious Responses to a Post-September 11 World." Presiding: Jeanne Matthews Sommer; Presenting: Caryn D. Riswold, Kenneth L. Kraft, Joseph Prabhu, Laura L. M. Crawford.
A170: Buddhism Section, "Translators and Translation Strategies in Buddhist History." Presiding: John D. Dunne; Presenting: Charles D. Orzech, Vesna A. Wallace, Jonathan C. Gold, Jan Nattier; Responding: Natalie Gummer.
A207: Religion in South Asia Section, "You Are How You Eat: Food and the Formation of Identity." Presiding: Susanne Mrozik; Presenting: James Egge, Robert Menzies, Katherine Ulrich, Elizabeth L. Wilson; Responding: Joseph Walser.
A221: Zen Buddhism Seminar, "Zen and the Politics of Difference." Presiding: Jin Y. Park; Presenting: Youru Wang, Mario Poceski, Albert F. Welter, A. Charles Muller, John R. McRae.
A224: Buddhism Section, "Women, Death, and Salvation in Buddhism." Presiding: Miriam Levering; Presenting: Mark L. Blum, Alan Cole; Zhiru Ng, Michelle Sorenson, Mariko Namba Walter; Responding: Reiko Ohnuma.
A252: Buddhism Section, "Discourse and Rhetoric in Medieval Japanese Buddhism." Presiding: Taigen Daniel Leighton; Presenting: Ryuichi Abe, Richard K. Payne, Jacqueline I. Stone, Mark T. Unno; Responding: Mark L. Blum.
A263: Japanese Religions Group, "The Teachings of Traditional Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Popular Authors, Mountain Ascetics, the Hidden, the Engaged, the Grave. Presiding: Micah L. Auerback; Presenting: Clark Chilson, Stephen Covell, Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Mark Rowe, George Tanabe; Responding: Paul L. Swanson.
(2) AAR Reception:
The Institute of Buddhist Studies will be hosting a reception at AAR/Toronto announcing the initiation of a new publication series, the Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series. This series is jointly published by the University of Hawai'i Press and Brill Academic Publishers. The reception is scheduled for Sunday evening, 7 pm. It is listed in the annual meeting program as Additional Meeting (AM) 162, on page 191. embers of the Buddhism section are invited to attend this reception.
Many thanks to the Institute of Buddhist Studies for this kind invitation.
(3) Section Steering Committee Elections:
In a separate e-mail you will have received a call for nominations to fill three Steering Committee positions. Please respond and support the section. The Co-Chairs would like to express their sincere thanks to Grace Burford, Juliane Schober, and Kyoko Tokuno whose Steering Committee terms expire in November 2002.