August 14-16, 2021, 9:00 AM EST
Harvard FAS CAMLab
Glorisun Global Buddhist Network
University of British Columbia
Eugene Y. Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism(2004). His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005), explores Buddhist worldmaking; it received the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Award from Japan. His current research focuses on cognitive study of art and consciousness as well as biocentric art that integrates visual, biological, and ecological systems.
He is also the founding director of Harvard CAMLab that explores the nexus of cognition, aesthetics, and mindscape. The CAMLab projects he heads explores multimedia storyliving and immersive artistic-cum-spiritual experience, integrating humanistic research and sensorial media practice. CAMlab’s current projects include Digital Gandhara, a massive mapping of Buddhist sites in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Shadow Cave which probes the enduring cognitive model behind Asian Buddhist caves.
“东亚佛教与世界营造”国际研讨会
全球化网络和技术变革正在迅速地重塑更新着每个人的世界观，然而我们却仍能在佛教“世界营造”（Worldmaking）的传统中找到当今新兴的全球秩序与竞争性系统的前身与影子。佛教中“帝释珠网”（Indra’s Net）的概念已在某种程度上预示了21世纪如网状日益联结交织的世界现状。
随着时间的流逝，我们愈发意识到佛教传统中世界营造这一理念的前瞻性和重要性。以此为契机，哈佛大学中国艺术实验室诚邀各位加入我们，一起来参与国际佛教集中研究系列活动（International Intensive Program on Buddhism）中的“东亚佛教与世界营造”（East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking）主题研讨会。
旭日全球佛教研究网络汇聚了北京大学、香港大学，美国哈佛大学中国艺术实验室、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、加州大学伯克利分校，英国剑桥大学、牛津大学，加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学，德国汉堡大学，以色列耶路撒冷希伯来大学等海内外顶尖高校。而今年，哈佛大学中国艺术实验室将与加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学《拔地入云：佛教与东亚宗教研究计划》、旭日全球佛教研究网络联合举办一年一度国际佛教集中研究系列活动。
今年的活动从2021年8月4日持续至8月25日，其中8月4日–13日为第一部分项目，8月13日–16日为跨学科多领域国际研讨会，8月13日-16日为第二部分项目。
第一及第二部分项目中将会呈现九名国际知名学者专家带来的专题讲座，其中哈佛大学中国艺术实验室创始人、主任汪悦进教授的讲座题为“佛教世界营造：中国案例”（Buddhist Worldmaking: Chinese Cases）。
而8月14-16日将举办的今年国际研讨会的主题为“东亚佛教与世界营造”。这场研讨会将汇聚25-30名来自全球各地的顶尖教授学者，并就东亚佛教研究领域中的最新研究成果展开讨论与分享。会议议题跨越绘画、诗词、文学、建筑等多种媒介、涉及考古、历史、东亚研究、宗教学等不同学科领域，将为观众们带来一场多维度多视野的知识盛宴，精彩纷呈，不容错过。
在连续三天的国际研讨会议程当中，哈佛大学中国艺术实验室创始人、主任汪悦进教授将于：
第一天议程｜发表欢迎致辞
中国时间：8月14日（周六）9:00pm–9:05pm
美东时间：8月14日（周六）9:00am–9:05am
第三天议程｜第一个专题讨论「异派交汇、新界迭出（New Worlds Emerging from Religious Merging）」中担任主持人
中国时间：8月16日（周一）9:00pm–10:30pm
美东时间：8月16日（周一）9:00am–10:30am
August 14-16, 2021, 9:00 AM EST
Harvard FAS CAMLab
Glorisun Global Buddhist Network
University of British Columbia
Eugene Y. Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism(2004). His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005), explores Buddhist worldmaking; it received the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Award from Japan. His current research focuses on cognitive study of art and consciousness as well as biocentric art that integrates visual, biological, and ecological systems.
He is also the founding director of Harvard CAMLab that explores the nexus of cognition, aesthetics, and mindscape. The CAMLab projects he heads explores multimedia storyliving and immersive artistic-cum-spiritual experience, integrating humanistic research and sensorial media practice. CAMlab’s current projects include Digital Gandhara, a massive mapping of Buddhist sites in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Shadow Cave which probes the enduring cognitive model behind Asian Buddhist caves.
