Asia

Dr. Eugene Eung-Chun Park, Dana and Dave Dornsife Professor of New Testament at San Francisco Theological Seminary, will be heading to Hong Kong this month for his third year as a mentor to young scholars through the Institute for Advanced Study in Asian Cultures and Theologies (IASACT). He will spend 6 weeks helping scholars refine and publish articles on a variety of topics in humanities and social sciences in the Asian Context.

Park first attended the Institute as a participant in 2004, and was connected to the program through Phillip Wickeri, a former professor of World...

Jung Eun "Sophia" Park, S.N.J.M. (Ph.D. '08) was recently awarded the first endowed academic position at Holy Names University in Oakland, the Irene Woodward Endowed Professorship in Arts and Humanities. Park is assistant professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy.

She earned her Ph.D. in Christian Spirituality. Her research interests include Asian women's spirituality, Korean shamanism, biblical spirituality, and the religious life from a postcolonial and global feminist perspective.

Park has published numerous articles and chapters in books, including "The Galilean...

The Center for Islamic Studies will be offering the following courses during Intersession 2013:

The Qur’an, Sunnah, and Islamic Law
Dr. Hatem Bazian
Jan 7-18, 2013
Everyday 12:40 – 3:30pm
PSR Classroom 6
This course is being taught by Dr. Hatem Bazian, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

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Asia Project Green Tea Conversation - American Muslims Redefining Religion and Identity: A Critical Discourse Analysis on 9/11 Uproar

Roma Ulinnuha is a Ph.D. student at Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS). He is a lecturer of Ushuluddin, Religious Studies, and Islamic Thoughts at the State Islamic University (UIN), Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta since 2006.

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IBS is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 3rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. 

The theme this year is Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Culture. 

Buddhist ritual practices are shaped by their location and are affected by the ritual objects. How does the material world determine the ways that...