TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Lecture--Ritualizing Duality: Secret Iconographies of Empowerment in Medieval Japan, a talk by LUCIA DOLCE
4:15 PM
4130 Posvar Hall
http://www.pitt.edu/~relgst/events/index.html
Audience: All are welcome to attend
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Center, Japan Council, Program in Cultural Studies, Japan Iron and Steel Foundation, Mitsubishi Endowments, Office of Undergraduate Studies
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15:
Lecture--The Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan: Politics, Rituals and Icons, a talk by LUCIA DOLCE 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
104 David Lawrence Hall
http://www.pitt.edu/~relgst/events/index.html
Audience: Open to undergraduates only, as described below.
Sponsored by: Asian Studies Center, Japan Council, Program in Cultural Studies, Japan Iron and Steel Foundation, Mitsubishi Endowments, Office of Undergraduate Studies
Please note that this talk is only open to RELGST 1550 & 0505 students, Religious Studies majors and minors and Asian Studies Center undergraduate certificate students.
Lucia Dolce holds a first degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Venezia, Italy, and a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is Senior Lecturer of Japanese Religion at the Department of the Study of Religion and Director of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her main research interest is Japanese religiosity of the medieval period, in particular, the esotericisation of religious practice, the development of millenarian ideas, and kami-Buddhas associative practices. Dr. Dolce's first book, "Esoteric Patterns in Nichiren's Interpretation of the Lotus Sutra," was awarded the Nakamura Hajime Prize for the best book in religious studies by a younger scholar in 2004. She is currently working on two research projects on rituals in premodern Japanese religion.
