Title: Japanese Buddhism and the Performing Arts (geinō)
Date: Friday and Saturday, October 14-15, 2011
Location: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University

Schedule

Friday, October 14th

9:00-9:30       Registration
9:30-9:35       Opening and Welcoming Remarks  Bernard FAURE (Columbia University)
9:40-10:00     KOMINE Kazuaki (Rikkyō University) “Geinō as Artistic Performances in Dharma Assemblies”「法会文芸としての芸能」
10:00-10:15  Discussant: Jane ALASZEWSKI (SOAS/Bukkyō University)
10:15-10:35  General Discussion
10:40-11:00  ABE Yasurō (Nagoya University) “The Liturgy for Exorcists of the New Year’s Shushōe Rituals as the Origin of Sarugaku: The Case of the Main Hall’s Liturgy for Exorcists, A Text from the Shinpukuji Archives”「猿楽発生の場としての修正会呪師作法 ―真福寺蔵中堂呪師作法をめぐりて―」
11:00-11:15  Discussant: Haruo SHIRANE (Columbia University)
11:15-11:35  General Discussion
11:40-12:00  MATSUOKA Shinpei (Tōkyō University) “The Establishment of Noh and the Ushirodo-sarugaku of the New Year’s Shushōe Services”「能の成立と修正会の後戸猿楽」
12:00-12:15  Discussant: Thomas HARE (Princeton University)
12:15-12:35  General Discussion
12:40-14:00  Lunch Break
14:00-14:20  Susan B. KLEIN (University of California, Irvine) “Ritual Modes of Pacification and Salvation in Medieval Noh”
14:20-14:35  Discussant: Hank GLASSMAN (Haverford College)
14:35-14:55  General Discussion
15:00-15:20  YAMANAKA Reiko (Hōsei University) “Buddhism and Noh Performance: The Bodhisattva’s Dance, Repentance Rituals, and the Great Assembly”「能の演出と仏教―菩薩の舞・懺法・大会―」
15:20-15:35  Discussant: Wilburn HANSEN (San Diego State University)
15:35-15:55  General Discussion
16:00-16:20  Noel PINNINGTON (University of Arizona) “Conflict in Noh: Resistant Voices in a Buddhist Polyvocality”
16:20-16:35  Discussant: Michael COMO (Columbia University)
16:35-16:55  General Discussion

Saturday, October 15th

9:30-9:50       Elizabeth OYLER (University of Illinois)  “Tsunemasa, Seizan, and Encounters with the Beyond in the Heike monogatari and the Noh Drama”
9:50-10:05    Haruo SHIRANE (Columbia University)
10:05-10:25  General Discussion
10:30-10:50  Bernard FAURE (Columbia University) “The Cultic World of the Blind Monks: Benzaiten, Jūzenji, and Shukujin”
10:50-11:05  Discussant: Thomas HARE (Princeton University)
11:05-11:25  General Discussion
11:30-11:50  David T. BIALOCK (University of Southern California) “Biwa Masters and Musical Hierophanies in the Heike and other Medieval Texts”
11:50-12:05  Discussant: Wilburn HANSEN (San Diego State University)
12:05-12:25  General Discussion
12:30-14:00  Lunch Break
14:00-14:20  Irit AVERBUCH (Tel Aviv University) “Buddhism and Minzoku Geinō:  Reflections of Honji-suijaku Thought in Kagura Song, Dance and Structure”
14:20-14:35  Discussant: D. Max MOERMAN (Barnard College/Columbia University)
14:35-14:55  General Discussion
15:00-15:20  SUZUKI Masataka (Keiō University) “The Cosmology of the Yudate Kagura: Reflections on the Tōyama Shimotsuki Matsuri”「湯立神楽のコスモロジ―遠山霜月祭の考察」
15:20-15:35  Discussant: Hank GLASSMAN (Haverford College)
15:35-15:55  General Discussion
16:00-16:20  SAITŌ Hideki (Bukkyō University) “The Genealogy of  ‘Jōdo Kagura’ and the Izanagiryū”「‘浄土神楽’の系譜といざなぎ流」
16:20-16:35  Discussant: Jane ALASZEWSKI (SOAS/Bukkyō University)
16:35-16:55  General Discussion
17:00-18:00  Final Discussion
18:00-18:05  Concluding remarks   Bernard FAURE (Columbia University)

Pre-registration is required. For pre-registration and further
information, contact Sujung Kim at:  sk2921@columbia.edu

Also please visit: http://www.columbia-cjr.org/