OPEN FORUM for Organizing Panel Sessions

Open Call for Panelists

  Title Convener
1 The Resurgence of Shari'ah in 21st Century Nigeria: Implications for Peace and Human Rights Prof Dr Amidu Sanni
2 Engaged Buddhism in Japan Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya, Nagoya City University (Japan)
3 Christianity at Crossroads: Seeking Asian Identities from a Theological Perspective Dr. Anri Morimoto, International Christian University (Japan)
4 The Dialogue among Religious Discourses in Brazil Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara, University of Sao Paulo and Mikael Rothstein University of Copenhagen
5 Music and Religion in the Middle East: The Ambiguity of Boundaries between the Sacred and the Secular in the Usage of Melodies, Texts, and Musical Conceptions
Dr. Kumiko Yayama (Toho University, Japan)


This page is designed for conveners who wish to organize a panel session but have yet to find a sufficient number of panelists. Conveners will be able to give a brief description of their panel and solicit participants from around the world. Please kindly contact the Congress Secretariat (e-mail goes here) if you are interested in organizing or further developing a panel session. Upon confirmation, we will place your panel session information online. Please make sure to give us the following information concerning your panel (please write in English, regardless of your panel's working language):

1. Panel name
2. Name and affiliation of panel convener
3. Panel abstract
4. Language(s) to be used in panel
5. The name, affiliation, presentation title, presentation abstract (if possible) of all panelists (panelist, convener, respondent) alreadyintending to participate in the panel session
6. An e-mail address where potential panelists can contact you

Please note that your e-mail address will be made public in the case that you are presenting an open call for panelists.

Congress participants who plan on presenting individual papers can also apply to serve as a panelist. Please contact the appropriate convener directly.

We ask that panel session conveners contact the Congress Secretariat as soon as they have an adequate number of panelists. We will note this online and end your open call.



Prof. Susumu Shimazono, President of the JARS Congress Secretariat of the 19th World Congress of IAHR
Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033
TEL: (81)3-5841-3765@ FAX: (81)3-5841-3888
E-mail address: iahr@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Congress website: http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/iahr2005/