Daily Archives: October 30, 2012

Nov. 2 Neo-Confucianism Seminar

Our thoughts go out to those in the New York area recovering from Hurricane Sandy! Happily, the lights stayed on in Middletown where I live, though 650,000 people are without power in Connecticut and many more in New York, New Jersey, and beyond. 

Update, 10/31: The Nov. 2 Seminar has been cancelled, and will be re-scheduled at a later date.

The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene on Friday, November 2 from 3:30 to 5:30pm.  We will meet in the Common Room in the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.  Please note the earlier starting time.

Our presenter for this session is Deborah Sommer.  Her paper is titled “The Body of Confucius in Han Apocrypha.”  A copy of her paper can be obtained from any of the Co-Chairs (see below).

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Weinstein Prize on East Asian Buddhism 

STANLEY WEINSTEIN DISSERTATION PRIZE

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to announce the
third competition for the Stanley Weinstein Dissertation Prize, honoring
Professor Weinstein's many contributions to the study of East Asian Buddhism in
North America. The prize will be awarded once every two years to the best Ph.D.
dissertation on East Asian Buddhism written in North America during the two
previous years. The dissertation must be based on original research in the
primary languages and should significantly advance our understanding of East
Asian Buddhism. East Asian Buddhism is understood for this competition to refer
to those traditions in East Asia that take Chinese translations of the Buddhist
scriptures as their basis (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese). Studies
of East Asian Buddhist communities in the West are not eligible for
consideration.
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