Between the Visible and the Invisible: Cosmology, Ritual, and Hermeneutics in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Worlds
1229 Dwinelle Hall
Keynote speakers Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature, UC San Diego Michael Puett, Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University
An exploration of the manifold relations between ideas concerning cosmology, ritual practice, and classical scriptures in pre-modern and modern China. Papers discuss social, political, and religious topics ranging from alchemy, meditative healing, and spirit possession, to textual exegesis, omenology, and state ritual.
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Presented by the Walter and Elise Haas Chair in Asia Studies and the Haas Junior Scholars Program at the Institute of East Asian Studies with the Department of Anthropology, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Eliaser Chair of International Studies.