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