30 May 05 Sacred Journeys: Pilgrims and Missionaries
The FOM (Friends of the Museum) and the ACM (Asian Civilisation Museum) are organising this talk on Sunday, June 5 2005, starting 2:30 PM. Entry is free. The venue is ACM (From raffles MRT walk past the UOB Plaza to the riverside and cross the Cavenagh bridge. ACM is the first building after the bridge. Click to see area map)
The topics for the day
Relics and Religion in Mainland Southeast Asia
Dr. Maitrii Aung Thwin of NUS will focus on Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Myanmar and the role of relics in popular Buddhist practices in Southeast Asia.
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Travelling for God and Adventure
Dr. Roberta Wollons will examine the personal and professional transformations experienced by American women in non-Christian settings, particularly a group of women missionaries who left for Japan, Turkey and India to found educational institutions for women (colleges, teacher training schools, seminaries and academies) at the turn of the century. Â
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Heaven & Earth: Daoist Mission in China
NUS lecturer Dr. Thomas DuBois will present a lecture based on his fieldwork on the teacher-disciple networks of the ‘Heaven and Earth Teaching,’ a movement which began in 17th century China and spread through a pattern based on the Daoist Eight Trigrams–with one missionary going off in each of the eight directions.
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About the speakers
Dr. Maitrii Aung Thwin received his PhD at the University of Michigan in Southeast Asian History. Â While his teaching covers pre-modern and modern Southeast Asia, he also teaches courses on colonialism, literature, and historiography. Â Currently, he is completing his first book titled Rendering Rebellion: History, Law, and Ethnography in Colonial Burma which explores the history of Myanmar’s largest anti-colonial rebellion and how the trial of that movement’s leader has led to scholarship’s understanding of resistance movements in Myanmar.
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Dr. Roberta Wollons is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Indiana University. Â Having recently published a book titled Kindergartens and Cultures: The Global Diffusion of an Idea, she is now researching on the women missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM) who travelled to Japan, Turkey and India during the years 1868-1927. Â She has completed research on women’s missionary schools in Japan where the political context for the missionaries was a governmental prohibition against Christianity.
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Originally from Indiana, Dr. Thomas DuBois read Chinese history at UCLA and currently teaches in the Department of History at NUS. Â He recently published The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China and is working on a project about religion in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
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sounds interesting. Probably I’ll come.
will be there probably.
Kazue san and Ashwin, hope to see you guys there, You would probably find me right at the front, though I will be only able to attend the first one and then run off for another event.
Ya, and I need to be running with you for the same event. Blogger’s meet, right?