Program:
The main conference and all the breakfasts and lunches will be held in the Killian Room on the fifth floor of the Hall of Languages on the main campus.
Thursday Evening: October 1, 2009
7:30 pm: Lily Kong, Public Lecture has been cancelled
All papers pre-circulated and brief summation and commentary by presenters: 15 minutes, 5 minutes content questions for each paper followed by a 20 minute commentary by the chairs followed by 20 minute interchange among panelist & questions especially by audience
Friday Morning: October 2, 2009
Panel 1: 10:00 a.m. – noon:Making Religious Spaces in the Cosmopolitan Center: Bangalore, Singapore, and Beijing
Chair-respondent: Norman Kutcher, Syracuse University
Srinivas, Smriti
“Four options to create your own heaven on earth”: The Cultural and Spatial Registers of Indian Urban Religiosity
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Fisher, Gareth
Losing the Neighborhood Temple (or finding the temple and losing the neighborhood): Transformations of Beijing Temple Space since the Communist Revolution
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Break: 15 minutes
Finucane, Juliana
Cosmopolitanism, Conversion and Place-Making among Members of the Singapore Soka Association
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Response by chair: 20 minutes
Question period: 20 minutes
12:00: Lunch served in the Kilian room.
Friday Afternoon: October 2, 2009
Panel 2: 1:30-3:30Temples and Politics of Place
Chair-respondent: Susan Henderson, Syracuse University
Chua, Lawrence
Architecture, democracy, and the Thai state: Wat Phra Sri Mahathat and Wat Suan Mokkh
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Gold, Ann Grodzins
Carving Sacred Space in Jahazpur: the Butchers' Temple and Other Dislocations
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Break: 15 minutes
Borchert, Thomas
Relocating the Center of a Sangha: Minority Buddhists, Local Politics and the Construction of a New Temple in Southwest China
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Response by chair: 20 minutes
Question period: 20 minutes
3:30-4:00 Coffee break: 30 minutes
Friday Afternoon: October 2, 2009
Special video: 4:00 pm- 5:00:Gold, Daniel
Vivekananda's Local Legacies: Conflict, Cooperation, and Individual Destinies in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
Plus discussion
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Saturday Morning October 3, 2009
Panel 3: 10:00 a.m. to noon:Conflicting and Contrasting Religious Place-Making in Single Urban Sites
Chair-respondent: Eleana Kim, University of Rochester
Ali, Nosheen
Invocations of Islam in the Pedagogical Spaces of Gilgit, Pakistan
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Yoo, Yohan
Protestant Churches’ Conceptions of Places in the Seoul Metropolitan Area Click Here for abstract.
Break: 15 minutes
Wu, Keping
Shifting Places: Three Buddhist Temples and Urban Space in Southeast China
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Response by chair: 20 minutes
Question period: 20 minutes
12:00 Lunch served in the Kilian room.
Saturday Afternoon October 3, 2009
Panel 4: 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.:Pushing Outward: The Creation of New Religious Place
Chair-respondent: Anne Blackburn, Cornell University
Vala, Carsten
Between State and Church: The Role of Church Leaders in Expanding Protestant Space in China
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Lohokare, Madhura
Notice Boards (Vartaphalak) and the City: Intersection of Religion and Space in the Public Sphere in Urban India
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Break: 15 minutes
DeBernardi, Jean
On Daoism and Religious Networks in a Digital Age
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Response by chair: 20 minutes
Question period: 20 minutes
3:00-3:30: Coffee Break: 30 minutes
Saturday Afternoon October 3, 2009
Panel 5: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.:Erasures and Re-formations
Chair-respondent: Andrew Willford, Cornell University
Joanne P. Waghorne will make the following presentation for Lily Kong:
No Place, New Places: Death and its Rituals in Urban Asia
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Snow, Alex
Floating Zendos, Global Mandalas, and Cosmic Gardens: The Erasure and Reconstruction of Place in Urban American Zen
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Break: 15 minutes
Waghorne, Joanne Punzo
Space without Place: Finding a Forest in the Midst of a City.
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Response by chair: 20 minutes
Question period: 20 minutes
Sunday Morning October 4:
9:30 am to 10:30Brainstorming session on the volume!