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SUMMARY:Traces of the Way: Memory and Transformation in Daoist Jataka Tales
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Traces of the Way: Memory and Transformation in Daoist Jataka Tales\n道跡：道教本生故事中的記憶與變化\nDate/Time: November 23\, 2023\, 14:00-15:30 (HK time)\nLanguage: English\nVenue: Room 730\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n日期/時間：2023年11月23日，14:00-15:30\n語言：英語\n地點：香港大學百周年校園逸夫教學樓，730室\nRegistration Link/注冊鏈接: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cu7EJDLnwiXR8Ro\n\nABSTRACTThe Wondrous Scripture of Original Deeds from the Cavern of Darkness (Dongxuan benxing miaojing 洞玄本行妙經) is a medieval Daoist scripture\, consists of a story cycle of the prior lives of Daoist gods. Inspired by Buddhist jataka tales\, these stories exemplify how Daoist authors used and elaborated Buddhist ideas to creatively fit into Daoist cosmology. Thus\, rather than awakening\, the Daoist tales focus on bodily transformation and appointment as deities. Indeed\, the Daoist tales are not really about the karma of the deities but about the efficacy of the True Writs 真⽂. Another key difference is that while Buddhist jataka tales the memory of past lives is a basic assumption\, in Daoist narratives this premise is replaced by “traces” 跡\, some form of visual inscription (textual\, talismanic\, archeological) that verifies the past. In this talk\, I focus on “traces” 跡\, a key notion in medieval Daoist discourse. I discuss the development of the discourse of “traces” from early China to the medieval period\, as well as to our modern ideas of tracing Daoist sources. Alongside transformation\, the notion of “trace” is fundamental to our understanding of medieval Daoism.\n摘要\n《洞玄本行妙經》是一部中古時期的道教經典，由一系列道教諸神的本生故事所組成。這些受到佛教本生故事啓發的道教故事，成爲了解道教作者如何利用、闡釋佛教思想，將其創造性融入道教宇宙觀的絕佳案例。因此，道教故事的重點不在覺悟，而是强調身體的變化以及被任命爲神靈。事實上，道教故事并不專門講述神靈的行業，而是關於真文的功效。另一個關鍵的差異是，佛教本生故事的基本假定是講述前世的記憶，但在道教故事之中，這個前提卻被「跡」所取代了，即是以某種視覺化的銘刻（文字、符篆、古蹟）來證實過去的經歷。這次的講演，我將集中討論「跡」，一個中古時期道教話語中的關鍵概念。我將討論先秦到中古時期「跡」的話語及其發展，以及我們循跡追尋道教根源的現代觀點。除了變化之外，「跡」的概念對於我們理解中古道教也是至關重要的。\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERGil Raz is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College\, specializing in Daoism. His research interests include Daoist ritual\, notions of the body\, visual and material culture\, and religious interactions in medieval China. His book The Emergence of Daoism (2012) examines the development of Daoism in early medieval China. His recent research focuses on Daoist archeological and epigraphic materials as sources for Daoist lived religion.\n關於講者\n李福，達姆斯大學宗教系副教授，專門研究道教。研究範圍包括道教儀式，身體觀，視覺與物質文明，和中國中古時期宗教互動關係。著有《道教的發源》考察中國中古時期道教的來源與發展。最近主要從事道教生活宗教用考古碑刻資料。\n\nORGANIZERS\nASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, HKU; School of Chinese\, HKU\n主辦方\n香港大學香港人文社會研究所亞洲宗教連結研究組；香港大學中文學院\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/traces-of-the-way-memory-and-transformation-in-daoist-jataka-tales/
LOCATION:Room 730\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230725T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230725T133000
DTSTAMP:20260428T013931
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SUMMARY:Religious Organization Ecology: Exploring Schisms in High-Tension Religious Groups
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Religious Organization Ecology: Exploring Schisms in High-Tension Religious Groups\nDate/Time:July 25\, 2023\, 12:00 noon (HKT)Language: English\nVenue: Via ZOOM (Registration is required.)\nRegistration Link: https://bit.ly/ASIARJuly25\n\nABSTRACTPrevious studies have attempted to synthesize religious economies\, new institutional\, and organizational ecology theories into a single perspective. Religious organization ecology theory proposes to be that synthesis and attempts to address meso-level weaknesses in cultural studies of lived religion. By analyzing schisms within high tension religious groups (otherwise known as “cults\,” “new religious movements\,” or “emergent religious groups”)\, the importance of church to sect mechanics\, authority and doctrine\, and niche conditions become apparent. These findings support ROE theory expectations of schism\, suggesting that this research program may be a good way to address positivist charges of a lack of empiricism. Finally\, the contribution of ROE to the cultural sociological study of religion is discussed. Future studies are needed to verify the theoretical improvements posited by ROE. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERSteven Foertsch is an award-winning third-year doctoral student in the sociology of religion program at Baylor University and research assistant at the Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) with experience in research\, policy\, and working for IGOs/NGOs. From experiences ranging from AmeriCorps to the United Nations\, he focuses on socio-ontological belief. He has conducted many studies to get at these religious and political beliefs– varying from Middle Age Papal Hegemony\, Satanism\, Wampanoag powwows\, and AI chatbots to contemporary Christofascism. With this background\, Steven is looking forward to continuing his research into the intersections of belief\, social and political philosophy\, emerging and New Age religious groups\, political economy\, deviance\, and pluralism.\nHOSTDr Paul Joosse (Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong)\nORGANIZERSASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/religious-organization-ecology-exploring-schisms-in-high-tension-religious-groups/
LOCATION:Via Zoom (Registration required)
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230418T190000
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SUMMARY:Buddhism in Russia: Introspection of Spirituality and New Modalities
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Buddhism in Russia: Introspection of Spirituality and New Modalities \nDate/Time:April 18\, 2023\, 7:00 – 9:00 pm (HK time)Language: English\nVenue: G/F Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, HKU & via ZOOM (Registration is required.)\nRegistration Link: http://bit.ly/RussianBuddhism\n\nABSTRACTBuddhism is regarded as a traditional faith in Russia and is part of the national spiritual tradition. Buddhism is a traditional religion for three regions of Russia: Buryatia\, Tuva and Kalmykia. In the 17th century\, Vajrayāna (Lamaism) Buddhism was brought to Russia by the cattle-breeding Buryats and Kalmyks who had come from Dzungaria (China) to the lower Volga. In 1741\, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna recognized Lamaism in Buryatia and arranged for the formation of Buddhist monasteries. This date is considered the date of official recognition of Buddhism in Russia. \nDuring the Soviet period\, the Buddhist clergy suffered from persecution and many lamas lost their land rights. Schools and monasteries were shut down\, temples were robbed\, and their material possessions were confiscated and put in museums.\nAt the same time\, Russian intellectuals used Buddhism as a way to express their discontent with the social system and as a way to escape the harshness of reality. Unofficial Buddhist communities began to develop in the USSR and then Russia. Nowadays\, Buddhism is present in Russia in a variety of ways: as an organized institution\, unifying the traditional Vajrayāna communities; non-institutional Buddhism in the form of small groups of Mahayana and Theravada; lay Buddhism in the form of a philosophical and everyday cultural tradition. In recent years\, the government has been offering substantial backing to Buddhist clerics in their educational pursuits.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERAlexey MASLOV is a professor and the Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Moscow State University\, as well as the President of the Foundation for promoting Buddhist Education and Research. He is a renowned scholar in Asian and Chinese studies in Russia\, a governmental expert in East Asian relations\, a visiting professor of several European and Chinese Universities\, and he has published more than 20 books\, including translations of Buddhist scriptures.\nORGANIZERS•ASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, under the CRF Project “Infrastructures of Faith: Religious Mobilities on the Belt and Road [BRINFAITH]” (RGC CRF HKU C7052-18G)\n•HKU Centre of Buddhist Studies\n \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/buddhism-in-russia-introspection-of-spirituality-and-new-modalities/
LOCATION:G/F Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, HKU & Via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230418T120000
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SUMMARY:Ways To Be and Not to Be: Reading LaoZhuangZi PhiloPoetically
DESCRIPTION:Register Today\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Ways To Be and Not to Be: Reading LaoZhuangZi PhiloPoetically \nDate/Time:April 18\, 2023\, 12:00 – 13:30 pm (HK time)Language: English\nVenue: May Hall 201 AND via ZOOM (Registration is required.)\nRegistration Link: http://bit.ly/KyooTalk\n\nABSTRACTReady? Set\, here we go again.  \n“Pathways” (Dao道) in classical Daoist discourses\, not really “ready-made\,” tend to make themselves anew quite readily\, all the way through; “way-making (dao) that can be put into words\,” “eloquently couched” as such (信言不美 美言不信Daodejing 道德經CH 8)\, “is not really way-making” (道可道非常道)\, says the old sage (老子)\, who also says that “those who know will not say it\, and those who say would not know it” (知者不言 言者不知). What is he saying? Dao is effable and ineffable. So what? What are we supposed to do?\nToday\, which GPS will take us to this Daoist “door of all wonders” (衆妙)? What kind of thresholding\, not just gatekeeping\, would be possible? Taking the auto-poetic generativity of such good old Daoist paradoxes and ironies as a philosophically renewable energy\, this seminar\, the first in the series\, on the Daoist PhiloPoetics of transitive ambiguation introduces ways to reboot Laozi (老子) and Zhuangzi (庄子) translingually\, focusing on their metamorphic—metaphorical and metaphysical—avant-gardism\, their waiting (weiding未定 Zhuangzi 04) game.\nABOUT THE SPEAKERKyoo Lee aka Q is a philosopher\, writer\, art critic and a Professor of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the City University of New York\, who works widely in the interwoven fields of the Arts and Humanities. The author of Reading Descartes Otherwise (FUP) and a forthcoming book on visual philopoetics (MIT Press)\, she is a recipient of faculty fellowships from Cambridge University\, KIAS and the Mellon Foundation among others\, and her genre-bending writings that explore co-generative links between critical theory and creative prose have appeared in Flash Art\, Jacket 2\, Randian\, The White Review\, etc.\, as well as numerous academic venues. Actively engaged in various editorial (currently\, philoSOPHIA\, SUNY Press)\, curatorial and public intellectual projects\, recently she served as the editor for the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022\, a judge for the Poetry Translation Prizes at the Poetry Translation Center (London) and PEN America (NYC)\, and the faculty leader for the Mellon Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center\, “mp3: merging poetry\, philosophy\, performativity.”\nORGANIZERASIAR Research Cluster\, HKIHSS\, HKU\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Register Today
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/ways-to-be-and-not-to-be-reading-laozhuangzi-philopoetically/
LOCATION:May Hall 201 AND via Zoom (Registration is required.)
CATEGORIES:ASIAR
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230116T163000
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DTSTAMP:20260428T013931
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SUMMARY:Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia | Green Finance Forum
DESCRIPTION:BRINFAITH | ESG BRI\nGreen Finance Forum: Bringing local values into the ESG framework in Asia \nOpening Remark:Dr Ma Jun\, Co-chairman\, G-20 Sustainable Finance Study Group; Chairman\, Hong Kong Green Finance Association\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\nKeynote Speeches\nThe changing definitions of ESG investment in Asia\nSpeaker: Anthony Cheung\, Managing Director\, ESG at Polymer Capital; Convenor of Green Finance\, Board Governor at Friends of the Earth (HK)\nAbstract: ESG has gained prominence in Asia including Hong Kong for a relatively short period of time. Yet\, its definitions and applications are already shifting. Through examining a selection of latest initiatives and regulations\, this introduction will illustrate how the definitions of ESG investment are changing in Hong Kong and across the region and what are the key implications. \n\nBringing local values into the ESG framework: the WeValue InSitu method\nSpeaker: Prof Marie Harder\, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering\, Fudan University\, Shanghai\nAbstract: A significant challenge for ESG systems is to find ways to obtain useful indicators about local shared values\, which are considered very difficult to elicit in an authentic\, communicable\, and useful form which also allows comparisons across localities. In this presentation we introduce the method named WeValue InSitu\, which takes groups of local persons through a crystallization process whereby their lived-values are made more explicit through specially designed cycles of meaning-making dialogic activity. We will use illustrations from cities such as Shanghai and Vienna and BRI countries in Asia and Africa studies to explore the usefulness of the WeValue InSitu approach for use in ESG. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\nRespondents\nProf Tarani Chandola\, Director\, Methods Hub\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, HKU\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\nLufei Yang\, SDG Finance Lead\, Asia\, UNOPS\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\nJoy Song\, Co-chair of ESG Disclosure and Integration Working Group\, HKGFA\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\n\nRoundtable Discussion \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\nCo-organisers\nBRINFAITH\, ASIAR research cluster\, HKIHSS\, HKU\nThe Methods Hub\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, HKU\n\nSupporting Institutions (no particular order)\nHong Kong Financial Services Institute\nHong Kong Green Finance Association\nLL.M. Arbitration and Dispute Resolution\, Faculty of Law\, HKU\nCentre for Global Asia\, NYU Shanghai\nFriends of Earth (HK)\nThe Hong Kong Independent Non-Executive Director Association\nCPA Australia\n 
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/esg_bri/
LOCATION:Hybrid – HKU Social Sciences Chamber (Jockey Club Tower\, 11/F) and via Zoom
CATEGORIES:ASIAR,BRINFAITH
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220914T103000
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SUMMARY:Greening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation\, Dispute Prevention and Resolution
DESCRIPTION:BRINFAITH | Green BRI\nGreening the Belt and Road: Risk Mitigation\, Dispute Prevention and Resolution\nKeynote Speech: Green Investment Principles Along the Belt and Road\nAbout the SpeakerDr. Ma Jun is currently the Chairman of the Green Finance Committee\, China Society for Finance and Banking\, and the former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. He led the drafting of China’s Green Finance Guidelines (2015-16) and facilitated global consensus on scaling up green finance under the G20 framework (2016-18). As a leader in the field of green and sustainable finance\, Dr. Ma Jun also serves as the sustainable finance special adviser of the United Nations Environment Programme\, the Director of Beijing Green Finance Association\, the Chairman and President of Hong Kong Green Finance Association\, and many other public welfare duties.\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\nDiscussants SpeechesDeveloping Holistic and Locally Based Frameworks for Greening the BRI\nSpeaker: Prof. David Palmer\, HKIHSS/Dept of Sociology\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\nBelt & Road Initiative and Dispute ResolutionSpeaker: Edward Liu\, MH\, Partner\, Haiwen & Partners LLP\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n\nRoundtable: Greening the BRI-risk mitigation\, dispute resolution and prevention\nDiscussants:Dr. Ma JunProf. David PalmerMr. Edward LiuProf. Shahla Ali\nRundown:10:30am – 10:35am Welcome and Introduction by Prof. Ali10:35am – 11:05am Presentation by Dr. Ma11:05am  – 11:15am Presentation by Prof. Palmer11:15am – 11:25am Presentation by Mr. Liu11:25am – 11:35am Presentation by Prof. Ali11:35am – 12:00nn Open discussion/Q&A
URL:https://asiar.hku.hk/event/greening-the-belt-and-road-risk-mitigation-dispute-prevention-and-resolution/
LOCATION:online via Zoom or in person (11/F\, Academic Conference Room\, Faculty of Law\, Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, HKU)
CATEGORIES:ASIAR,BRINFAITH
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