Call for papers| Sichuan Religions Online Graduate Symposium (6-7 May 2023)
The “Mapping Religious Diversity in Modern Sichuan” project, kindly sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, is excited to announce its first online graduate symposium!
Sichuan is located at the periphery of China but also at the center of Asia; as such, it is a repository of a rich and unique history of religious and cultural practices that our project is committed to unpack, explore, and analyze also in comparative perspectives with other regions. In our research we have selected and studied communities, sites, textual productions, ritual traditions, and identified hybrid and inclusive identities as opposed to exclusive and strict labels. We have focused especially on different forms of networks, whether lineage-based or site-based, temple or god-centred, inter-religious or intra-religious. Please see our website https://sichuanreligions.com/ to familiarize with the project aims and our findings so far.
We would like to enlarge our research community and especially hear from junior researchers who share our interest in Sichuan in their work. Papers presented in this first online graduate symposium will be discussed by the project core team and other scholars in the field.
We welcome proposals on a wide range of topics related to religion and culture in Sichuan, with preference to modern developments (Qing era to today) but also including earlier eras. Proposals that examine the following sub-themes are especially welcomed:
Inter-religious connections
Religion and politics
Religion and the environment
Religion and migration
Religion and gender
Religious activism
Religion and space, landscape, urban sphere
Religion and the production and circulation of local knowledge
Abstracts should be 500 word-long and submitted in either English or both Chinese/English. Presentations (25 minute-long) can be in either English or Chinese; in case of a Chinese presentation please write your PPT in both English and Chinese. Open Q&A and discussion will be mainly in English.
Timeline:
24 March: abstract submission through the following google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu3RiSuamEgqpiAsJJiFX8zWqHXzDripMCY5tqSYFqLLKn7w/viewform?usp=pp_url
1 April: applicants will be informed of submission results.
Any inquiries can be sent to sichuan.religions@gmail.com
論文徵集|首屆“四川宗教研究”國際碩博士研究生線上論壇（2023年5月6-7日）
【呈現近代四川宗教多樣性】項目由喜馬拉雅基金會慷慨贊助，很高興宣布舉辦第一屆碩博士研究生線上論壇。
四川位於中國內陸腹地，亦是亞洲中心。我們的研究項目致力於探索、分析、以及解釋巴蜀地區豐富而獨特的宗教歷史和文化習俗，並與其他地區加以比較。我們目前的研究聚焦於社區、地點、文本生產及儀式傳統，我們梳理出雜糅且兼容並蓄的主體，而非隔絕且固化的標籤式劃分。我們尤其關注各種不同形式的網絡構成，無論是基於血統宗族或是故地舊址、以寺廟或是以神靈為中心，亦或存在於宗教間或宗教內部。請參見我們的網站https://sichuanreligions.com/，以便了解我們的研究宗旨以及迄今為止的科研成果。
我們希望擴大本項目的研究團隊，尤其歡迎同樣致力於四川研究的年輕學者。首屆碩博士研究生線上論壇上報告的論文將由本項目核心團隊成員和其他領域學者分別評議。我們歡迎各種有關四川宗教和文化的提案，以清朝至今的近代歷程為主，但也涉及早期歷史，尤其歡迎研究以下子課題的提案：
1. 宗教間的聯繫
2. 宗教與政治
3. 宗教與環境
4. 宗教與移民
5. 宗教與性別
6. 宗教與行動主義
7. 宗教與空間、景觀、城市領域
8. 宗教與地方知識的生產和流通
論文摘要為500字左右，可用英文或中文提交（若提交中文摘要，請附上英文翻譯）。會議報告時長為25分鐘，中/英文皆可，若是中文報告，請在您的PPT中附上相應的英文翻譯，方便其他學者。論壇問答環節和評議部分將主要以英文進行。
意欲參會者請於3月24日前將論文摘要通過以下Google表格提交
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdu3RiSuamEgqpiAsJJiFX8zWqHXzDripMCY5tqSYFqLLKn7w/viewform?usp=pp_url 提交結果將於4月1日郵件通知。如有任何疑問可發郵件至sichuan.religions@gmail.com諮詢。
注：如果無法通過Google表格提交，請將論文摘要（中/英雙語）發送至如上項目郵箱，郵件主題註明“‘四川宗教研究’碩博士研究生線上論壇”。
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