CFP: Travel and Accommodation Sponsored #International #Conference on #Historiography and #Hagiography in #Buddhism and Beyond -#University of #Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 8-10 July 2024

 

This international conference aims to bring together scholars working on practices of record-keeping, historiography, and hagiography in the Buddhist tradition and in related cultural fields. Recent years saw a steadily-growing interest in the impact of Buddhism on historiography and hagiography, in tandem with an unprecedented increase in the availability of textual and visual primary sources. Ambitious digitization projects (especially of premodern sources) and the changing landscape of the digital realm offer new opportunities to study premodern and contemporary practices of writing and narration. In this three-days conference, we seek to foster an interdisciplinary discussion on practices of textual and visual recording, storytelling, and memory in Chinese Buddhism and beyond – past, present, and future.

This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi Foundation (慈濟) and hosted by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge.

The conference will take place at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 8-10 July 2024 (08/07/2024-10/07/2024). Accommodation and meals will be provided for the duration of the conference. Travel expenses to Cambridge will be covered for conference presenters (please contact organizers for further details).  

We welcome proposals for papers on topics relating to historiography, hagiography, and narration, including but not limited to:

• Buddhist historiography and record-keeping
• Historiography and record-keeping in other Chinese religious traditions
• Narrating lives of extraordinary individuals (e.g. biographies, autobiographies, hagiographies) in textual, oral, visual, and material forms
• The intersection of Buddhism and literature
• Book culture and production of texts in the Buddhist tradition (e.g. in print culture, manuscript culture, publishing practices, patronage of textual production, production of temple gazetteers and mountain gazetteers etc.)
• Uses of visual arts and the performance arts in creating or supporting Buddhist historiography and hagiography

Proposals for papers should include the following information:

No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions About Core Buddhist Teachings

5%

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

₹1,383.00

19%

Buddhism for Beginners

₹350.00

32%

Tantra & Buddhism, Greatest Spiritual Wisdom

₹199.00

42%

The Essence of Buddhism

₹599.00

32%

Buddha In Daily Life, The: An Introduction to the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin

₹599.00

24%

Buddhism Declined in India: How and Why

₹495.00

32%

Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

₹699.00

The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika

32%

The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom

₹399.00

1. Name, affiliation, and title of position at the affiliated institution (independent scholars are also welcome to apply; please note “independent scholar” in your proposal if relevant)
2. Title
3. 250 word abstract
4. Contact information: email, address, and phone number(s)

The deadline for all proposals is Friday, February 23^rd, 2024 (23/02/2024). Proposals should be sent as either Word or PDF to the following email address: hist.hagio@gmail.com

For general information and logistical questions, please email the organizing committee at: hist.hagio@gmail.com

Regarding the conference, please contact the primary organizer, Dr Noga Ganany at ng462@cam.ac.uk.

*Proposals must be submitted in English.

Contact Email

hist.hagio@gmail.com

Attachments

CFP: Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond

CFP: #Crises, #Challenges and #Post-Pandemic #Prospects in #Teaching #Languages for Specific and #Academic #Purposes-Special Issue 4/2024 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia

Special issue information: 

This special issue focuses on Languages for Specific Purposes and welcomes papers taking a research, pedagogical or theoretical perspective on the topic.  

Language for specific purposes (LSP) is an approach to language education based on identifying the specific language features, discourse practices, and communicative skills of target academic groups, and which recognizes the subject-matter needs and expertise of learners.  It sees itself as sensitive to contexts of discourse and action and seeks to develop research-based pedagogies to assist study, research or publication in English.  It requires teachers to identify the diversity of disciplinary languages used in the workplace or academy and encourage students to engage analytically with target discourses and develop a critical understanding of the contexts in which they are used. This is probably the most widely adopted approach to language instruction in higher education today, involving thousands of teachers and students across the world.  

Students now take a broader and more heterogeneous mix of academic subjects, some of which involve modular or joint degrees and emergent ‘practice-based’ courses such as nursing, management and social work. Further, they now have to deal with a broad range of modalities and presentational forms beyond written texts, and must learn to negotiate a complex web of disciplinary specific text-types, assessment tasks and presentational modes in order first to graduate, and then to operate effectively in the workplace.  

 

This special issue of Studia addresses research on LSP or the application of understandings from it in the classroom. We are not only interested in empirical research but also classroom practices, and theoretical discussions. A point of central importance is that each chapter is directly about specific language instruction, either using English or another language. We are aware that LSP instruction occurs in a wide range of settings, is aimed at learners with various backgrounds (immigrant, foreign language, 3rd language, etc.), operates in various contexts (e.g., genre-based pedagogy, teaching for general or specific academic/occupational purposes), focuses on different modalities (print-based, digital, multimodal, oral), and encompasses a host of teacher activities (e.g., syllabus design, materials development, instructional delivery, provision of feedback, assessment). We are interested in papers covering any topical aspects in these diverse academic contexts.  

 

Manuscript submission information: 

You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline.  

In this Special Issue we are interested in publishing both full-length articles (6000-7000 words including references) and shorter reports on teaching or classroom practices (2500 -3000 words). All submissions should be in English and relate to the topic of the Special Issue. 

Please include the following with your submission: 

● Name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation and bionote  

• Type of submission 

● Working title  

For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact octaviazglobiu@ubbcluj.ro 

Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript. 

Submission deadline: 15 February 2024 

 

Contact Information

Guest editors

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia, UK K.Hyland@uea.ac.uk

Dr. Octavia Raluca Zglobiu-Sandu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania octavia.zglobiu@ubbcluj.ro

Dr. Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania andrada.pintilescu@ubbcluj.ro

Contact Email

philologia.studia@ubbcluj.ro

URL

http://studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/philologia/pdf/CFP_4_2024.pdf