Tuesday, March 22

10:00am - 12:30pm & 2pm - 4:30pm

in person | Social Sciences Building SOS 250| RSVP at cpw@usc.edu

on-line | Please register HERE

The Center for the Premodern World and the Project for Premodern Japan Studies are delighted to welcome to campus Professor Philippe Buc of Leiden University to discuss his latest research — a comparative analysis of the cultures of religion and violence in premodern Europe and Japan. Professor Buc is well known for his work on topics as varied as biblical exegesis, the history of anthropological thought, and the cultures of religious violence in the West, from Antiquity to the present. Building on the last project, he is seeking to draw together two cultures, premodern Europe and Japan, to see what each can reveal about the other. Our one-day symposium will consider his recent work and draw into the conversation Thomas Conlan, Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and Dan Sherer, Professor of East Asian Studies at Hebrew University (both of whom will be participating remotely), as well as Joan Piggot, Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at USC-Dornsife.

Presenters & Discussants:

Professors Dan Sherer, Tom Conlan, Philippe Buc

Organizer: Professor Joan Piggott

10:00 AM Introductions, Prof. Joan Piggott, USC

10:10 AM Prof. Philippe Buc, University of Vienna

Why this project? Beginning the discussion

11:00 AM Prof. Dan Sherer, Hebrew University

“Defending the Lotus, Offending the Lotus: Rise and Fall

of Nichirenist Military Power 1532-1536”

12:00 PM General Discussion

2:00 PM Prof. Tom Conlan, Princeton University

Comments & Questions

3:00 PM Prof. Philippe Buc, Response

3:30 PM General Discussion

For further information, contact

Prof. Joan Piggott, USC History Department &

The Project for Premodern Japan Studies at USC

Center for the Premodern World, USC

*Please RSVP by the EOD Friday, March 18 at cpw@usc.edu to attend in-person and to reserve a lunch box