Cultures
of Authority in Asian Practice
A Seminar Series for Undergraduate Educators
On-line Conference
A moderated on-line conference, "Cultures of Authority in Asian Practice," will be held September 2 - 6, 2003.
A call for papers was issued six months prior to the conference and selected papers will be posted to this site for review one month prior to the five-day conference. Authors will be expected to be available to respond to queries regarding their papers for all five days. Select program presenters will be invited to respond to the published conference papers and to take part in on-line discussions of their content and pedagogical ramifications. The Conference Director, Dr. Roger Ames, will write both an introductory essay and summary remarks for the conference. Papers selected for the conference will be candidates for inclusion in an edited volume planned for publication through the State University of New York Press series on Asian Studies Development, with an introduction by Roger Ames.Abstracts --[pdf format]
Roberta E. Adams, "Aspects of Authority in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West"
David Brubaker, "Pure Experience and the Authoring of Identities: Nishida and Merleau-Ponty"
Shudong Chen, "Do Monks from Afar Pray Best? -- Means, Ways, and Traditions of Chinese Culture of Authority in Power Negotiating with Ideas and Influences from Afar as/for the Authority from Within"
Jim Highland, "Jihad and Authority in the present moment"
Wenshan Jia, "Chinese Lian/Mian Practices as a Form of Authority in Chinese Culture"
Tao Jiang, "Intimate Authority: Family, State, and the Rule of Persons in Traditional China"
Yoshimitsu Khan, "The Imperial Rescript on Education (1890) as Cultural and Moral Authority"
Keith N. Knapp, "Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as seen in Early Medieval Tales of Filial Children"
Illeana B. Leavens, "The Kano school and Momoyama shoguns: an intimate dialogue in Authority"
Ronnie Littlejohn, "Sages who are Good at Saving the People (DDJ,27): the Authority of Contemporary Daoshi in Southern China"
Steven B. Miles, "Authority and Scholarly Discourse: The Xuehaitang Academy in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou"
Christian Lee Novetzke, "Saints and Scholars: The Construction of Authority between Religion and Secular Scholarship in India"
Virginia D. Suddath, "Ought We Throw the Confucian Baby Out with the Authoritarian Bathwater?: A Critical Inquiry into Lu Xun's Anti-Confucian Identity"
Lawrence R. Sullivan, "The Controversy Over Authority in Modern China, 1898-1927"
S. A. Thornton, "Religious Authority and Monastic Regulation in the Fourteenth Century"
Tiourine, "Polygyny and the Development of Chinese Traditional Culture of Authority in the Epoch of Zhou (the 11th - the 3rd Centuries B.C.)"
Robin R. Wang, "Virtue (de), Talent (cai) and Beauty (se): Authoring a Full-Fledged Womanhood in Lienuzhuan (Biographies of Women)"
Franklin J. Woo, "Authority of the Word and Authority of Power in 17th century China?"