Religious and Theological Responses to Environmental Disaster in Asian History (1/27・1/28)
Abstract
Scholars exploring the relationship between religion and the environment have tended to focus on the present and future issues affecting the global north (Europe and America), on formulating systematic theologies grounded in these contexts, on ethics, and on ecology. Although scholarly interest in both environmental history and the approach of religions in Asia to environmental issues is developing across the globe and across multiple disciplines and has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, little scholarly work has been conducted into the historical responses of religious actors and movements to natural and man-made environmental disasters in Asia. Nevertheless, the history of religious responses to environmental issues has the potential to inform both religious and secular practices and understandings of the environmental challenges facing humankind today making its study essential to shaping our evolving responses to global warming, epidemics, drought, and pollution across the world.
Kindly funding by the Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania and sponsored by Waseda University’s Waseda Institute for Advanced Study we are thrilled to announce the organization of an interdisciplinary and international hybrid symposium on “Religious and Theological Responses to Environmental Disaster in Asian History” which will be held at Waseda University, Tokyo on 27th-28th of January, 2024. Scholars working within anthropology, history, theology, and religious studies based primarily in Asia and Europe will be invited to speak at the conference with attendees joining both in-person and online.
The goal of the symposium is to share research on religious responses to environmental disasters from different geographical spaces (within Asia), different historical periods, and different disciplines both between participants and with the public. It is hoped that this will result in the formulation of new theoretical frameworks for understanding the history of the relationship between religion and the environment in Asia, serve as a basis for further collaborative research, and increase public knowledge of environmental history more generally. Furthermore, the symposium will lead to the publication of an edited volume written in English which will be disseminated both within Japan and abroad.
Speakers
Dunja Sharbat Dar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Georgina Drew (University of Adelaide)
Brendan Galipeau (National Tsing Hua University)
Hamano Miki (Ritsumeikan University)
Sanae Ito (National Institutes for the Humanities)
Anders Karlsson (SOAS)
Matthew King (University of California, Riverside)
Yuki Miyamoto (De Paul University)
James Harry Morris (Waseda University)
Kazufumi Nagatsu (Toyo University)
Aike Rots (University of Oslo)
Nhung Lu Rots (University of Oslo)
Takuya Soma (Kyoto University)
Chie Saito (Kanazawa Seiryo University)
Takashi Tsuji (IRCI)
Date & Time
January 27 (Sat) 10:00~17:25 & January 28 (Sun) 10:00~17:00
Venue
Hybrid Session (Online/Zoom participation available)
◆Room 309, 3rd Floor, Building 19, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Language
English
Program
January 27, Saturday 10:00~17:25
10:00 Welcome from James Harry Morris
10:05 Aike Rots
10:35 Takashi Tsuji
11:05 Discussion
11:35 Break
11:50 Dunja Sharbat Dar
12:20 Kazufumi Nagatsu
12:50 Discussion
13:20 Lunch
14:30 Chie Saito
15:00 Nhung Lu Rots
15:30 Discussion
15:45 Break
16:00 James Harry Morris
16:30 Yuki Miyamoto
17:00 Discussion
17:25 Closing Comments
January 28, Sunday 10:00~17:00
10.00 Welcome from James Harry Morris
10:05 Georgina Drew
10:35 Sanae Ito
11:05 Discussion
11:35 Break
11:50 Matthew King
12:20 Brendan Galipeau
12:50 Discussion
13:20 Lunch
14:30 Anders Karlsson
15:00 Hamano Miki
15:30 Discussion
15:45 Break
16:00 Takuya Soma
16:30 Discussion
16:55 Closing Comments
Prospected Audience
Students, Faculty members, Research members, General participants
Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
(Organized by MORRIS, James Harry, Assistant Professor, WIAS)
Co-Organizers
Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania
Registration
Prior regirstration is required for In-person and Online participation.
Please register from here or the link below.
https://linktr.ee/religiousresponses
*Free Attendance In-Person or Online.
