Order and Disorder in Asia
Monday, June 3:
09:00 Coffee and Registration
09:15 Greetings
Religion, Society and Politics
Chair: Ronie Parciack, Tel Aviv University
09:30-10:15
Frederick Smith, Iowa University
“The Narration of History and the Challenges of Women’s Education and Outmigration in the Himalayas”
10:15-11:00
Kathinka Frøystad, University of Oslo
“Kamini and the Cardamoms: The New Hindu India Against Itself”
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30
Keynote Speech:
Yaron Oz, Rector, Tel Aviv University
“Hidden Order in Chaos”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Religion, Society and Politics—cont.
Chair: Reut Harari, Tel Aviv University
14:00-14:45
Lucia Michelutti, University College London
“Protection and Extortion: an Ethnography of (dis)Order in a Provincial North Indian Town”
14:45-15:30
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, University of Colorado
“Epistemological Revolution in Japan’s Long 1968”
15:30-16:15
Maika Nakao, Nagasaki University
“Religion, Order, and Disorder from the Christian History of Nagasaki”
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18:45
Buddhist Responses to War and Moral Chaos
Chair and Discussant: Roy Tzohar, Tel Aviv University
Nancy G. Lin, University of California, Berkeley
“Making Sense of War in Eighteenth Century Tibet”
Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton University
“Buddhist Moral Models for a Post-Truth Era”
Tuesday, June 4:
Geo-Political and Socio-Political Order
Chair: Asaf Goldschmidt, Tel Aviv University
10:00-10:45
David Mervart, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
“Visions of Disorder in Tokugawa Japan: The Aging Body Politic and its Bullion Bodily Liquids”
10:45-11:30
Ori Sela, Tel Aviv University
“Ordering All Under Heaven: Ritual, Human Relations, and Philology in Qing China”
11:30-12:15
Joachim Kurtz, Heidelberg University
“Sovereignty Rests in Heaven: Confucian Revivalism and the Re-enchantment of China’s Social and Political Order”
12:15-13:45 Lunch
Geo-Political and Socio-Political Order—cont.
Chair: Liora Sarfati, Tel Aviv University
13:45-14:30
Shellen X. Wu, University of Tennessee
“Constructing Geo-Modernity in East Asia”
14:30-15:15
Lijing Jiang, Colby College
“Aquaculture and the East Asian (dis)Order: Social Imaginaries in Fish Farming Technology across the ‘Bamboo Curtain,’ 1954 – 1976”
15:15-16:00
Reut Harari, Tel Aviv University
“Medical Order in the Disorder of Occupation: the History of Military Medical Encounters during the War in China (1937-1945)”
16:30-18:00
Round Table: Order and Disorder in Asia
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