| Wednesday, April 14 | ||||
| Arrival of participants | ||||
| 18.30 h | Meeting at the reception desk of Seminarhotel Springer-Schlößl and informal get-together | |||
| Thursday, April 15 | ||||
| Session 1 | Chair: Prof. Sepp Linhart | |||
| 09.00 - 09.15 h | Greeting Address Introductory Remarks | |||
| 09.15 - 10.00 h | Prof. Nelly NAUMANN (Professor emeritus, Universität Freiburg): Death and Afterlife in Early Japan | |||
| 10.00 - 10.45 h | Prof. Stephen F. TEISER (Princeton University): Rebirth in the Pure Land, Fear of Hell, the Invention of Bureaucracy, and Other Myths about Chinese Concepts of the Afterlife | |||
| 10.45 - 11.15 h | Coffee Break | |||
| 11.15 - 12.00 h | Dr. Christoph KLEINE (Berlin): Rebirth and Immortality, Paradise and Hell: Conflicting Views of the Afterlife in Ancient Japan as Reflected in Edifying Narratives from the Heian Period | |||
| 12.00 - 14.00 h | Lunch | |||
| Session 2 | Chair: Mag. Susanne Formanek | |||
| 14.00 - 14.45 h | Prof. Neil MCMULLIN (University of Toronto at Mississauga): The Construction of the Afterlife and the Present Life in the Ôjôyôshû | |||
| 14.45 - 15.30 h | Prof. Friedrich A. BISCHOFF (Universität Wien): Chinese Concepts of the Afterlife according to the Djin Ping Meh | |||
| 15.30 - 16.00 h | Coffee Break | |||
| 16.00 - 16.45 h | Prof. KURODA Hideo (Tôkyô daigaku shiryô hensanjo): The Kumano kanshin jikkai mandara and the Lives of the People of Kinsei (paper will be read by Prof. Wakabayashi Haruko) | |||
| 16.45 - 17.30 h | Prof. KÔDATE Naomi (Tôkyô): Aspects of Ketsubonkyô Belief in Japan | |||
| 19.00 h | Reception | |||
| Friday, April 16 | ||||
| Session 3 | Chair: Prof. Hartmut O. Rotermund | |||
| 09.00 - 09.45 h | Mag. Bernd SCHEID (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien): The Double Soul in Medieval Shinto | |||
| 09.45 - 10.30 h | Prof. Harold BOLITHO (Harvard University): Life After Death? Two Opinions from the Early Nineteenth Century | |||
| 10.30 - 11.00 h | Coffee Break | |||
| 11.00 - 11.45 h | Dr. Marc McNALLY (Harvard University): A Shinto View of the Afterlife: Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) and the Ancient Way | |||
| 11.45 - 12.30 h | Prof. Josef KREINER (Universität Bonn): Beliefs of an Other World in Ryûkyûan Religion | |||
| 12.30 - 14.30 h | Lunch | |||
| Session 4 | Chair: Prof. Harold Bolitho | |||
| 14.30 - 15.15 h | Prof. WAKABAYASHI Haruko (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa): Hell Illustrated: A Visual Image of Ikai that Came from Ikoku | |||
| 15.15 - 16.00 h | Views of the Afterlife in the Popular Culture of the Tokugawa
Period:
Mag. Susanne FORMANEK (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien): Jigoku no sata mo zeni shidai: Uses of the Paradise-and-Hell-Metaphor in the Gesaku Literature Prof. Sepp LINHART (Universität Wien): Caricatures Making Use of Hell in the Late Edo and in the Early Meiji Period |
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| 16.00 - 16.30 h | Coffee Break | |||
| 16.30 - 17.15 h | Dr. Galen AMSTUTZ (Harvard University): Popular Views of the Afterlife in the Jôdoshinshû Buddhist Tradition | |||
| 17.15 - 18.00 h | Prof. Hartmut O. ROTERMUND (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris): The Afterlife in Meiji Period Sermons | |||
| Saturday, April 17 | ||||
| Session 5 | Chair: Prof. William LaFleur | |||
| 09.00 - 09.45 h | Prof. Peter KNECHT (Nanzan University, Nagoya): Kuchiyose: Calling the Dead | |||
| 09.45 - 10.30 h | Dr. Lisette GEBHARDT (München): The Other World in the Light of a New Science - Spiritism in Modern Japan | |||
| 10.30 - 10.45 h | Coffee Break | |||
| 10.45 - 11.30 h | Prof. Yohko TSUJI (Cornell University, Ithaca): Raise as a Mirror of Gense: From Legally Required Ancestor Worship to Modern Mortuary Rituals | |||
| 11.30 - 15.00 h | Lunch and Excursion to the Cemetery of St. Marx and the Wiener Bestattungsmuseum (Funerary Museum) | |||
| Session 6 | Chair: Prof. Josef Kreiner | |||
| 15.00 - 15.45 h | Prof. William LAFLEUR (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia): The Afterlife of the Corpse: How Popular Concerns Impact upon Bioethical Research in Japan | |||
| 15.45 - 16.30 h | Inken PROHL (Freie Universität Berlin): Solving Everyday Problems with the Help of the Ancestors: Representations of Ghosts in the New Religions Agonshû and World Mate | |||
| 16.30 - 17.00 h | Coffee Break | |||
| 17.00 - 17.45 h | Prof. YAMADA Yôko (Kyôto University) and Prof. KATÔ Yoshinobu (Aichi Shukutoku University): Representations of the Soul and the Circulatory Cosmology in Contemporary Japanese Youth | |||
| 17.45 - 18.30 h | Final Discussion | |||
| 19.00 h | Visit to a typical Viennese tavern (Heuriger) | |||