Jun 9, 2026, 4:30 pm – Jun 10, 2026, 6:00 pm
Audience
Open to All Eligible Individuals
Details
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Welcome and Keynote Address (Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture)
4:30–4:35 Opening Remarks, Judith Weisenfeld
4:35–4:45 Introduction of Keynote Speaker, Paul Copp
4:45–6:00 Keynote Address
Shih-shan Susan Huang, “A Journey Back to Hell: Reinventing Ten Kings of Hell Imagery after the Tang”
6:00–7:00 Reception (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Panels and Reflections (All panels and reflections are in Aaron Burr 219)
8:15–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–9:15 Introduction of John Kieschnick
April Hughes
Reflections on Stephen F. Teiser’s Contributions to the Study of Chinese Religions
John Kieschnick
9:15–9:30 Advisor Reflections #1
Jimmy Yu
9:30–11:15 Panel 1: Possession, Poetry, and Preaching in Medieval China
Chair: John Strong
Kelly Carlton, “The Vulnerability and Power of Youth: Children in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Āveśa Rituals”
Sinae Kim, “Sermons on Motherhood and Filial Piety in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha”
Kwi Jeong Lee, “Ornamenting a Buddha World: ‘Miscellaneous’ Liturgies in the Dunhuang Manuscripts and the Salvific Efficacy of Beautiful Things”
Thomas Mazanec, “Poetry, Style, and Community in Pelliot chinois 3409”
11:15 AM–1:00 Lunch (Chancellor Green Rotunda)
1:00–1:15 Advisor Reflection #2
Yiyi Luo
1:15–3:00 Panel 2: Illuminating Ritual and Pantheon in Chinese Religions
Chair: Anne Blackburn
Stuart Young, “Divine Silkworm Families and Sericulture of the Heavens: Multispecies Silk Rituals in Medieval Daoism”
Mark Meulenbeld, “The Plum Mountain Vernacular and the Efficacy of Mountains Among the Iu Mien in Northern Thailand”
Daniel Burton-Rose, “Agricultural Deities in Ritual Manuscripts from Southwestern China: An Environmental Humanities Perspective on Shared Religious Practices”
Huaiyu Chen, “The Everlasting Torch of Wisdom: A Cultural History of Stone Lamp Platforms in Medieval Chinese Religions”
3:00–3:15 Coffee Break
3:15–3:30 Advisor Reflection #3
Minhao Zhai
3:30–5:15 Panel 3: Constructing and Reconstructing Modern Chinese Religions
Chair: Helen Hardacre
Jennifer Eichman, “A Well-Imagined Life: The Late Ming Buddhist Nun Zhujin”
Wei Wu, “The Easy Path and the Fast Path: Chinese Buddhists’ Engagement of Pure Land and Esoteric Practices, 1912—1949”
Chuck Wooldridge, “Maintenance and Displacement at Taipei’s Longdong Bao’an Temple”
Jessica Zu, “War, Rape, and Karmic Psychopolitics: Rereading the Story of the Genocidal King Viḍūḍabha and the Shakya Female Slaves”
5:15–5:30 Break
5:30–5:45 Advisor Reflection #4
Ian Chapman
5:45–6:00 Closing Remarks Stephen F. Teiser
Sponsors
- Department of Religion
- Glorisun
- Numata
- Center for Culture, Society and Religion
- Tang Center for East Asian Art
- East Asian Studies Program
See the original event posting here.
