Workshop: Circulating the Bay of Bengal, Miraculously: Translating Wonder and Travel in Southeast Asia

NALANDA-SRIWIJAYA CENTRE

WORKSHOP ON

CIRCULATING THE BAY OF BENGAL, MIRACULOUSLY

TRANSLATING WONDER AND TRAVEL IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

 

About the Workshop

How do we write a history of travel and wonder? Can we enchant the history of Southeast Asia? Are there histories of wonder, saints, gods and spirits in societies of Southeast Asia that we can trace or write? How have Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and ‘Chinese religion’ interweaved across the Bay of Bengal? These are just some questions that this workshop aims to explore systematically.

This workshop aims to collect histories of travel, enchantment and wonder in Southeast Asia across the longue durée. It will bring together scholars whose work spans the geographic and temporal scope of societies, from the medieval era to the modern period, with a focus on ‘magical’ connections. The geographic and temporal scales of this conference are deliberately broad, largely because these are concepts and phenomena that traverse the length and breadth of religious history and experience. This workshop also aims to collect materials essential for writing a connected history of the Bay and Bengal, and for investigating the interweaving histories of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and ‘Chinese religion’.

Workshop Programme
Tentative programme


Registration
Attendance to the Workshop is free of charge but registration is required. As seats are limited, please register early. Admission to the Workshop can only be taken as confirmed upon receiving the written acceptance from ISEAS.

To register, please complete this form and return it by fax to 6775-6264 or email at iseasevents2@iseas.edu.sg by Monday, 6 February 2017.

 

Date

Feb 07 2017
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Time

9:30 am - 5:00 pm

Location

ISEAS Seminar Room 1 & 2