SCRIPT Events

• Welcome Address I Joo Hyung Rhi (Dean of College Humanities, Seoul National University)
• Welcome Address II Woncheol Yun (Director of Center for Religious Studies, Seoul National University)

• Sacred Texts and the Digital Turn: Reflections on Scriptures as Material Objects in a Liminal Age -- Brad Anderson (Dublin City University)
• Aspiring Narratives of Previous Births: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Written and Visual Media in Ancient Gandhara -- Jason Neelis (Wilfrid Laurier University)
• Embodying the Qu’ran -- Katharina Wilkens (LMU Munich)
• Discussant: Dorina Miller Parmenter (Spalding University)

• Body Building in the Hindu Tantric Tradition: The Advantages and Confusions of Scriptural  Entextualization in the Worship of the Goddess Kali  -- Rachel McDermott (Bernard College/Columbia University)
• Performing Scriptures: Ritualizing Written Texts in Seolwi-seolgyeong, the Korean Shamanistic Recitation of Scriptures -- Yohan Yoo (Seoul National University)
• Sages, Vows and the Material Production of a Legendary Buddhist Scripture -- Michael Como (Columbia University)
• Discussant: James W. Watts (Syracuse University)

• Artificial Bodies, Sewn and Wrapped: On Gospel Books and Their Distributed Agency in the Medieval West -- David Ganz (University of Zurich)
• The Bible in Korea: Korean Ways of Reading, Writing, and Painting the Bible -- Sung Uk Lim (Yonsei University)
• Discussant: S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College)

• Daoist Writs and Scriptures as Sacred Beings: With a Focus on Cosmological Meaning -- Jihyun Kim (Seoul National University)
• Divine Scripture, Human Provenance: Śāstra and Revelation in the Kāmasūtra -- Travis Smith (Seoul National University)
• Discussant: S. Brent Plate (Hamilton College)

• "Ritualizing the Size of Books," James W. Watts, Syracuse University,
• "Sutras Working in Buddha’s Belly and Buddhists’ Pockets: Iconic and Performative Miniature Sutras in Korean Buddhism," Yohan Yoo and Woncheol Yun, Seoul National University
• "Wars and Weddings: The Ideologies of Miniature Bhagavad Gitas with a Focus on Gender," Jon Skarpeid, University of Stavanger
• "Small Things of Greatest Consequence: Miniature Bibles in America," Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University
• Responding: Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University

• "How Not to Read: The Trace of Evangelical Readers and the Powers of the Religious Book in the United States, c. 1825-1861," Sonia Hazard, Duke University
• "Sensory uses of scriptures in Israelite-Jewish religion," Marianne Schleicher, University of Aarhus
• "Texts Unseen: Invisible Writings and Performance in the Ancient Levant," Alice Mandell, University of Madison-Wisconsin
• "A Script in Hand? Small-Format Ecclesiastical Texts and Priestly Performance in Early Modern France,"  Joy Palacios, Simon Fraser University
• Business Meeting

Beineke Library
at Yale Uni

• the American Acadmy of Religion (AAR)
  
• the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
  

• the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
• the Eastern International Region (EIR) of the AAR

Calls for Papers