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Dear friends and colleagues, The quiet August is slowly coming to an end. We are already looking forward to September and the upcoming winter semester as well as the exchange with you and our new guests and fellows. Until then, we would like to draw your attention once again to next week's symposium "Religion, Translation and Transnational Relations: Japan and (Counter-)Reformation Europe" by our Associate Member Katja Triplett, for which you can still register. Enjoy and have a good week! Lucy |
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International Symposium "Religion, Translation and Transnational Relations: Japan and (Counter-)Reformation Europe“, 1–3 SeptemberWe would like to remind you again that our Associate Member Katja Triplett is co-organising an international symposium on "Religion, Translation and Transnational Relations: Japan and (Counter-)Reformation Europe" together with Yoshimi Orii (Keiō University, Tokyo) and Pia Jolliffe (University of Oxford). The symposium will be held next week Thursday through Saturday. Registration for online and on-site participation is still possible. The symposium examines transnational relations between Japan and (Counter-) Reformation Europe through the lens of translation. The translation concept adapted includes linguistic as well as cultural translations. Contributors analyse various translation processes including the translation of European religious thought into Japanese, the translation of Japanese and European images and artefacts and the translation of Jesuit letters from Japan. We are particularly interested in discussing the “translation” of meaning, i. e. how texts, images and artefacts were rendered culturally significant to Japanese and European audiences. We are also keen to explore the agency of translators as well as the socio-cultural and political-economic dimensions of their translation strategies. Dr. Murat Antoni John Ucerler, S.J., Director of the Ricci Institute at Boston College, will also give a lecture and present his new book "The Samurai & the Cross: Jesuit Missionaries & Education in Early Modern Japan" as part of the symposium. (Free admission, please register by email to juan.castillo@uni-leipzig.de). Date: 1–3 September | Leipzig University Book Presentation: 2 September | GRASSI Museum
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Conference "EXPERIMENTS WITH EXPERIENCE: Experimenting with Religions and Spiritual Practice as Experimentation" | 2–3 SeptemberThe conference at University of Bern, Institute for the Science of Religion, doubles as a concluding event to the SNF project bearing the same name: "Experiments with Experience: Experimenting with Religions and Spiritual Practice as Experimentation". Based on a thorough collection and systematic analysis of descriptions that conceptualize religious practice as experimentation, this project offers important insights into religious self-conceptions of Western and Asian modernity. It analyzes the “scientification” of the religious discourse on experience, outlines strategies of verifying salvific and “spiritual" effects of religious practice, and highlights the discursive self-positioning of being spiritual in a modern, contingent, and scientifically explored life world. The concluding conference will touch upon issues connected to the experimental methods of religious practitioners as well as their opponents, negotiations between science and tradition, and more. Guests have been invited to discuss the outcomes of the project, as well as to present relevant work of their own on related topics. As the conference will be held in a hybrid-format, guests are invited to listen in online. The Zoom link can be found here. Date: 2–3 September | University of Bern and online via Zoom
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Finding: The Secular New WaveOur Senior Research Fellow Neguin Yavari has pointed to a review essay on "The 'secular' in anglophone scholarship on premodern Islam" published by graduate student Aseel Azab-Osman in the Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School in 2021. The essay attempts to review the ways that the secular has been defined, conceived, employed, or discarded with respect to the field, from the mid-twentieth century to the current moment. The Multiple Secularities approach - especially the contributions to our Special issue of Historical Social Research 44, no. 3 (2019) on Islamicate Secularities - is critically disussed in this essay as part of a "Secular New Wave". The author concludes her critical analysis stating that the secular is neither inherently inadequate, nor defunct, for the purposes of studying premodern Islam.
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