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Special Sessions

Michael Yorke

presents an evening of his documentaries, including Marathon Monks of Mt Hiei, Kubh Mela, Eunuchs: India's Third Gender, Sadhus, and many others

Ursula King (University of Bristol & SOAS, UK) and Hema Goonatilake (Red Lotus - National Buddhist Organisation for Humanitarian Services)

present an interactive session entitled "Gender and Spiritual Praxis: Personal Trajectories" speaking about their personal experiences of researching and working in these areas. It will be an evening of story telling and sharing, with time for questions and discussion centring around the topics of gender, spirituality, religion, social action, motherhood, academia, and personal development.

Speakers

Cristina Bonnet (SOAS, University of London, UK) "Subversive Daughters of the Buddha: The Feminisms of the Burmese Buddhist Nuns"

Joanna Cook (Cambridge University, UK) "In what ways do Hagiographic Narratives Create Possibilities for Thai Buddhist Nuns?"

Sukawarsini Djelantik (Parahyangan University, Indonesia) "Gender and Identity amongst Javanese Moslems"

Yolanda van Ede (Amsterdam University, the Netherlands) "Celibacy, Womanhood and Renunciation in Nepal"

Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen (SOAS, University of London, UK) "To what extent do young female Soka Gakkai members' support for the political party Komeito challenge prevailing norms of females as professional housewives and men as cooperate warriors?"

Yumi Furusawa (Tokyo University, Japan) "Gender and Care and Japanese Spirituality"

Meg Gentes (Independent Scholar, California, USA) "The Miko and the Veliccappatu: context and practice of two female ritual specialists of Japan and India"

Makiko Habazaki (Hokkaido University, Japan) "Customs, Ritual and Tradition in Widows' Human Rights Movements in Nepal"

Elizabeth Harris (Birmingham University, UK) "Gender and Social Change in Sri Lanka"

Noriko Kawahashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) "Re-creating Japanese Buddhist women"

Monica Lindberg-Falk (Lund University, Sweden) "Gender, Social Engagement and Religious Change in Thailand"

Mizuho Matsuo (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) "Gender, Caste, and Childlessness: Religious Treatment Seeking Behavior in Rural India"

Santi Rozario and Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff University, UK) "Gender, Religious Change and Sustainability in Bangladesh"

David Smith (Lancaster University, UK) "Gender, Biology and Art: Yoni and Linga in South Asian Tradition"

Masakazu Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan) "Cult-like Nature of the Activities of a Japanese Porn Director, Tadashi Yoyogi"

Minerva Terrades and Jordi Vinals (the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) "Gender and Deconstruction of Shinto"

Meenakshi Thapan (Delhi University, India) "Aspects of Religion and Identity among South Asian Muslim women in Transnational Contexts"

Tomiko Yuyama (Seikei University, Japan) "The Confucian Norm and Mother-Child Relation of a Modern Chinese Intellectual: In the Case of a Mother's Son, 'Lu Xun'"