[Buddha-l] "Religion and Globalization in Asia" conference announcement

[John K Nelson]

Dear Buddha-L members,

As program chair of the March 2009 conference on "Religion and  
Globalization in Asia: Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for the 21st  
Century," to be held at the University of San Francisco, I'd like to  
invite you to join us for what promises to be a memorable event.

We already have our keynote speakers and paper presenters, but we'd  
love to have you as active participants in the audience.  If you look  
at the conference presenters (copied below, as well as via our  
website at http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/ 
religionandglobalization.html. ), you'll note a keynote address (by  
Nayan Chanda, Yale) as well as several papers and a film on Buddhist- 
related topics.  More broadly, the other two keynote speakers (Mark  
Juergensmeyer and Saskia Sassen) will provide critical reflections on  
the role of religion and society that will apply to any study of  
religion in the contemporary world.

Registration is only $40, and will get you breakfast as well as a  
reception on the first evening.  However, registration is limited to  
120 participants.

San Francisco is rich in Buddhist temples and centers from all major  
traditions.  I might also mention that the city is just beautiful in  
mid-March, and we have one of the best collections of Asian art in  
North America, as well as a new museum dedicated to modern/world art  
(DeYoung) and the just-opened Academy of Sciences.

Please contact me directly at nelsonj at usfca.edu if you have any  
questions .  All the registration information, as well as a more  
detailed conference description, is on our website at
http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/religionandglobalization.html.

Hope to see you in San Francisco next March!



Religion and Globalization in Asia:
Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for the 21st Century
March 13, 14, 2009
University of San Francisco

A G E N D A

FRIDAY, March 13

8:45 Registration opens
Continental Breakfast

9:30 Welcome remarks, John Nelson, Conference Chair (University of  
San Francisco)
Barbara Bundy (Executive Director, USF Center for the Pacific Rim)

9:45 – 10:30 “Religious Ambivalence to Globalization in Asia”
Keynote address, Mark Juergensmeyer (UC Santa Barbara)
10:30 – 10:50 Discussion
(Note: Each presenter will have 40 minutes, divided into 25 minutes  
for the talk and the rest for discussion.)

11:00 – 11:40 “Political and Economic Possibilities for Religious  
Dialogue between China and India”  Eric Hanson (Santa Clara University)

11:45 – 12:25 “Spiritual Economies: Islam and Globalization in  
Contemporary Indonesia”
Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of British Columbia, Victoria)

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

12:45 – 1:30 “Happy Birthday Mazu: Empress of Heaven, Goddess of the  
Sea” [FILM]
Introduction by filmmaker Jonathan H.X. Lee (UC Santa Barbara)
(Please bring your lunch to this event)

1:40 – 2:20 “ In Search of the Pure Land: Globalization and Buddhist  
Revival in Contemporary China”     Keping Wu (University of Hong Kong)

2:30 – 3:10 “Globalizing the Religious Market in China: How Incoming  
Foreign Religions Affect State Religious Policy” Noam Urbach  
(University of Haifa)

3:15 – 3:45 Break

3:45 – 4:30 “Buddhism and Globalization: The Rise of Early Asian  
Identity”
Keynote address, Nayan Chanda (Yale University)

4:30 – 4:50 Discussion

5:00 – 5:45 “Gender and Moral Visions in Indonesia”
Rachel Rinaldo (Kiriyama Fellow, USF Center for the Pacific Rim)

6:00 – 7:00 Reception

SATURDAY, March 14
8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:45 “The World’s Third Spaces: Novel Assemblages of  
Territory, Authority, and Rights”   Keynote Address, Saskia Sassen  
(Columbia University)

9:45 – 10:05 Discussion

10:10 – 10:50 “Localizing Global Patterns in Islamic Communities in  
China”
Michael C. Brose (University of Wyoming)

10:55 – 11:35 “Globalization, Nationalism, and Korean Religion in the  
21st Century”
Don Baker (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

11:40 – 12:20 “Asian New Religions and Global Soft Power”
Nancy Stalker (University of Texas, Austin)

12:20 – 12:30 Concluding Remarks, John Nelson, Conference Chair

John Nelson
Associate Professor
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Director, Asian Studies Degree Program
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA. 94117
Office: 415-422-5093

Department:  http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/fac_staff/N/nelson_john.html
Asian Studies: http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/undergrad/asiamajor
"Spirits of the State" documentary film: http:// 
www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/research/yasukuni.html