EANASE Conference: Esoteric Visions of the Past: East Asia and Beyond

2024-11-08

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DATE: 30 November & 1 December 2024
VENUE: Tohoku University & Online
PLEASE REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE BY 29 NOVEMBER 2024

10:30-12:30 [Session 1] Body, Mind and Eastern Religions

10:30-11:00 James Flowers (Kyung Hee University)
- The Convergence of Religion and Medicine in Japan-Ruled Korea
11:00-11:30 Francisco Figueroa Medina (Kyoto University)
- Advancing the Spirit of the Mahāyāna: A “New Zazen Group Movement” in Postwar Japan
11:30-12:00 Lobsang Tshultrim Gnon Na (Kyoto University)
- The Esoteric Aspects of Tranquil Abiding Meditation: Perspectives of Indian and Tibetan Scholars and Their Connections to Contemporary Western Mindfulness Practices
12:00-12:30 Xu Hanyin (University of Malaya)
- Tubuh and Mysticism: The Intersection of Body and Esotericism in Malay Culture

12:30-13:15 Break

13:15-14:15 [Session 2] The Imagined East and the Outsider’s Gaze

13:15-13:45 Haocheng Wang (Lanzhou University)
- Non-Dual and Freedom: The Construction of the Eliade System of “Tantrism”
13:45-14:15 Riya U. Poojary (Manipal Academy of Higher Education)
- Framing the East: Marco Polo’s Representation of India within the European Tradition of ‘Othering’ and Orientalism

14:15-14:30 Break

14:30-17:00 [Symposium] Occult Times, Occult Places: (Re)Imagined Histories in Modern Japan

14:30-14:35 Preliminary remarks
14:35-15:00 Dell J. Rose (University of Amsterdam)
- The Secret “Churches” of Mongolia: The Swedenborgian “Far East” Discovered in Meiji Japan
15:00-15:25 Orion Klautau (Tohoku University)
- Envisioning “Occult” History: The Category of Gishi in Modern Japan
15:25-15:50 Jon Morris (Daito Bunka University)
- Japan’s Mummies: The Sokushinbutsu in Post-War Occulture
15:50-16:10 Response by Ozawa Minoru (Rikkyo University)
16:10-17:00 Q&A and discussion

12:00-13:00 [Session 3] East Asian Esoteric Concepts Reemerging in Modern Society

12:00-12:30 Liu Xiaodong (University of Kelaniya)
- Energy Concepts in Modern China: Reframing Traditional Mysticism
12:30-13:00 Camila Torres Bianchini (Nara Women’s University)
- The Concept of Kotodama in the Martial Arts Theory of Ueshiba Morihei

13:00-13:15 Break

13:15-14:15 [Session 4] East Asian Esoteric Visions and Global Society

13:15-13:45 Alice S. Kim (Independent researcher)
- Esoteric Visions of the Future from the 2023 Korean Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale
13:45-14:15 Bogdan Andrei (University of West Timișoara and University Oradea)
- The Silk Road of the Spirit: How East Asian Esoteric Visions Have Shaped Christian Mission

14:15-14:30 Break

14:30-16:00 [Session 5] Esotericism, Politics and East Asia

14:30-15:00 Tommaso Previato (Center for Advanced Studies – Erlangen)
- Islamic Afterworlds and Nation Building in Modern China
15:00-15:30 Filippo Pedretti (Komazawa University)
- Zen and Italian Esotericism: Massimo Scaligero’s Reception of D.T. Suzuki
15:30-16:00 Davide Marino (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, HangZhou City University)
- From Da(o)daism to Traditionalism: Giulio Evola’s Daodejing