ARC Mellon Workshop
2000-01

Images and Concepts
of Childhood

Organized by Irene Lin
Religious Studies

Sponsored by:
Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, Asian Religions and Cultures
Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford Humanities Center
with a grant from the Mellon Foundation

All lectures are at 4:15 p.m. in Building 50, Room 51P

December 1

Irene Lin
"Servant Spirits in Child Form:
Gohô Dôji in Medieval Japanese Religions"
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February 2

Christine Guth
"'Picture Gallery of a Nation':
Nineteenth Century Western Images of Japanese Children"
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February 26

Elisheva Baumgarten
"'The Hearts of Children are Like Those of Dreaming Adults':
Medieval Jewish Understandings
of Childhood and of Parental Obligations"
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March 9

Tom Hare
"The Particular Appeal of Children in Medieval Japan"
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March 16

Colette Plum
"Children at Work and War:
Mobilization of the Young
during the 'War of Resistance' in China - 1937-1945"
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April 20

Gregory Schopen
"On Buddhist Monks & Making Babies:
Child Oblation in Indian Buddhist Monasticism"
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April 27

Barbara Pitkin
"Children and the Church in Calvin's Geneva"
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May 4

Hester Gelber
"Experiencing Medieval Childhood and How it Mattered"
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June 1

Angelika Cedzich
"Children in Chinese Tantric Buddhist and Daoist Liturgy"