Monday, June 13, 2106/9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This multidisciplinary conference gathers together leading experts in the broad field of Japanese religious history, as well as emerging young scholars (including advanced graduate students and recent PhDs), from several countries, in what is perhaps the first...
Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies & EALCS, Director of the East Asia Center, UCSB) Friday, February 12, 2016 / 11:00 AM HSSB 2212 Writing about women’s Islamic piety in Egypt, Saba Mahmood criticized the narrow definition of women’s agency defined solely in terms of resistance, critical discourse, or rebellious...
Friday, October 10, 2014 / 11:30 AM -1:30 PM HSSB 4080 Our primary goal is that of rethinking the categories of "paganism" and "idolatry" from a number of theoretical perspectives on the basis of research carried out in different historical and cultural contexts. In the our first...