Zen between glacier and fjord…
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
ROSENDAL, August 29th – September 1st
(NOTE that titles / time can be subject to change!)
August 28th
Arrival of the conference participants, dinner at ca. 18:00
August 29th
Panel 1: "Pre-Chán" rhetoric in China
Chair: Göran Malmqvist (Swedish Academy of Science)
08:30-10:00
Christoph Harbsmeier (Univ. of Oslo)
The rhetorical Analysis of Bǎiyù jīng
10:00-10:30
Coffee and tea
10:30-12:00
Bart Dessein (Univ. of Gent)
From Sūtra to Abhidharma: Changes in Rhetoric Devices
12:00-15:00
Lunch break, guided tour through the Baroniet Rosendal mansion and museum
15:00-16:30
Jens Braarvig (Univ. of Oslo)
Rhetorics of Emptiness
16:30-16:45
Coffee and tea
Panel 2, part 1: Chán rhetoric in China
Chair: Robert Buswell (UCLA)
16:45-18:15
Mario Poceski (Univ. of Florida)
Popular Remembrances and Literary Transfigurations of the Great Chán Teachers from
the Táng Era
18:30-20:00
Christoph Anderl (Univ. of Oslo)
The Rhetorical Function of Buddhist Technical Terms in Chán Texts
20:00 Dinner and general discussion
August 30th
Panel 2, part 2: Chán rhetoric in China
Chair: William Bodiford (UCLA)
08:30-10:00
Anu Niemi (Univ. of Helsinki)
Ideological contexts of "talking about food" in Chinese Buddhist texts
10:00-10:30
Coffee and tea
10:30-12:00
Christian Wittern (Kyoto Univ.)
Rhetorical devices in Chán Yǔlù
12:15-13:45
Halvor Eifring (Oslo Univ.)
The Rhetoric of Chán Poetry: Wáng Wéi's "Wǎngchuān jí"
14:00-19:00
Lunch and excursion to glacier/waterfall
19:00
Dinner
Panel 1 cont.: "Pre-Chán" rhetoric in China
Chair: Bart Dessein (Univ. of Gent)
20:00-21:30
Hans-Rudolf Kantor (Huafan Univ., Taipei)
Ambiguity and the Concern of Language in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy
August 31st
Panel 3: Sǒn rhetoric in Korea
Chair: Christian Wittern (Kyoto Univ.)
08:30-10:00
Robert Buswell (UCLA)
Negotiating the Sŏn-Kyo Divide: The Synthetic Language of Pojo Chinul (1158-1210)
10:00-10:30
Coffee and tea
10:30-12:00
Jongmyung Kim (Graduate School of Korean Studies)
Hyujong's Literary Strategies in Composing Song'a kwigam
12:00-16:00
Lunch and time for individual activities
16:30-18:00
Jörg Plassen (Hamburg Univ.)
Literati Sŏn or Buddhist Neo-Confucianism? Some remarks on the Chodong owi yohae
18:15-19:45
Vladimir Tikhonov (Oslo Univ.)
Sǒn rhetoric in the language of Manhae Han Yongun (1879-1944)
20:00
Dinner
September 1st
Panel 4: Zen rhetoric in Japan
Chair: Mark Teeuwen (Oslo Univ.)
08:30-10:00
Steven Heine (Florida International Univ.)
Dogen's Appropriation of Chán Sources
10:00-10:15
Coffee and tea
10:15-11:45
William Bodiford (UCLA)
Zen Literature in Early Medieval Japan
11:45-12:15
Therese Sollien (IKOS)
Huàtóu meditation in the texts of Master Xīyún
12:15-13:00
Discussion and conclusions
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Departure by bus to Oslo
Conference information:
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
Postbox 1010 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
Contact/responsible for the organization:
Christoph Anderl
E-mail: christoph.anderl@ikos.uio.no
Tel. +47 22857191
Fax +47 22854828
Mobile phone +47 41214539
Conference webpage:
http://folk.uio.no/christoa
IKOS project webpage:
http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/Zen/index.html