Schedule of Meetings
Updated 6/10/04
Unless otherwise noted,
all meetings held
5:00 p.m., Stanford Humanities Center
Autumn 2003
Friday, October 3. Planning the workshop. A Discussion led
by John Pang (Religious Studies). 4:00 p.m.
Monday, October 13. Martin Lewis (International Relations)
and Kären Wigen (History) discussing their book The Myth
of Continents: A Critique of Metageography.
Monday, October 27. Mark Lewis (History). "World Model
as Sacred Geography in Early China." Reading: Anne Birrell,
The Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Monday, November 24. The Flying Mountains of Tibet: A Discussion led by Bernard Faure (Religious
Studies).
Winter 2004
Monday, January 12. David (Max) Moerman (Barnard) on Japanese
Buddhist sutra burial.
Monday, February 9. Allan Grapard (UC Santa Barbara). "What
is So Sacred about Space?"
Monday, February 23. Jean deBernardi (Alberta). "The
Poetics and Performance of Sacred Space in Chinese Popular Religious
Culture." 4:00 p.m.
Spring 2004
Monday, April 19. Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara
(McMaster) discussing their new book Pilgrims, Patrons, and
Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions.
Friday, April 30. William Porter (author). "China's
Hermit Tradition, Sacred Mountains, & the Secret of Zen's
Success." 12:00 noon, 260-007.
Monday, May 10. Nam-lin Hur (British Columbia). "Buddhist
Deities on Scenic Tour: The Roadside Kaicho of Zenkoji, 1701-1706."
(Co-sponsored by SSFJS.)
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