Plenary Sessions of XIXth World Congress of the IAHR


I.Opening Symposium: Religions and Dialogue among Civilizations
[24 March, Thu., 13:30-17:30]

Outline

Panelists:
Toward a Dialogical Civilization
Religious Leaders as Public Intellectuals
TU Weiming(Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, USA)

Religions and Dialogue among Civilizations
The Brazilian Challenge
Maria Clara LUCCHETI-BINGEMER (Professor, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Religions and Dialogue among Civilizations
Building a Culture of Understanding
Hans van GINKEL (Rector, United Nations University, Japan)

Grass-roots Understanding of religions
ODA Yoshiko (Professor, Kansai University, Japan)

Chair:
SHIMAZONO Susumu(University of Tokyo, Japan)


II. Plenary Session 1: Religious Dimension of War and Peace
[25 March, Fri., 9:00-10:30]

Keynote speaker:
Religious War, Terrorism, and Peace
Mark JUERGENSMEYER (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Respondents:
Gerrie ter HAAR (Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, the Netherlands)
WATANABE Manabu (Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan)

Chairperson:
Rosalind HACKETT (University of Tennessee, USA)


III. Plenary Session 2: Technology, Life, and Death
[26 March, Sat., 9:00-10:30]
Keynote speaker:
Neuropolitics in War and Healthcare
Ebrahim MOOSA (Duke University, USA)

Respondents:
William LAFLEUR (Pennsylvania University, USA)
OKANO Haruko (Seisen University, Tokyo, Japan)

Chairperson:
HANAOKA-KAWAMURA Eiko (Nara Sangyo University, Nara, Japan)


IV. Special Session: Japanese Religions and the Study of Religion
[27 March, Sun., 9:00-12:00]
Keynote speakers:
Constitutional Revision and Its Meaning for Japanese Religions
Helen HARDACRE (Harvard University, USA)

Buddhism and Modern Nationalism
SUEKI Fumihiko (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Religion and State in Modern Japan
YASUMARU Yoshio (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan)

Respondent:
HAYASHI Makoto (Aichi-Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan)

Chairperson:
Paul SWANSON (Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan))


V. Plenary Session 3: Global Religions and Local Cultures
[28 March, Mon., 9:00-10:30]
Keynote speaker:
Expaining the Global Religious Revival:The Egyptian Case
Talal ASAD (City University of New York, USA)

Respondents:
Vasudha NARAYANAN (University of Florida, USA)
Pablo WRIGHT (Universidad de Buenos Aires, argentina )

Chairperson:
Pratap KUMAR (KwaZulu-Natal University, Durban, South Africa)


VI. Plenary Session 4: Boundaries and Segregations
[29 March, Tue., 9:00-10:30]
Keynote speaker:
Fluid Boundaries, Institutional Segregation and Buddhist Sexual Tolerance
Suwanna SATHA-ANAND (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)

Respondents:
Ursula KING (University of Bristol, USA)
TANAKA Masakazu (Kyoto University, Japan)

Chairperson:
KAWAHASHI Noriko (Nagoya Institute for Technology, Japan)


VII. Plenary Session 5: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
[30 March, Wed., 9:00-10:30]
Keynote speaker:
On the Value of a Theory without Method
MASUZAWA Tomoko (University of Michigan, USA)

Respondents:
CHUNG Chin-Hong (Hallym University, Korea)
Sylvia MARCOS (Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico)

Chairperson:
Armin GEERTZ (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)


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/