Day 1 – Friday, May 31
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM — Opening Remarks
Dean Adam Leibovich, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
10:30 AM – 12:00 AM — Panel 1 : China
Chair: Cuilan Liu
Taisu Zhang: “Confucianism” and Legality in Qing China
Huaiyu Chen: Legalizing and Legitimizing the Use of Animal Bones in Chinese Buddhism
Gilbert Chen: Temple in Flux: Property, Gender, and Temple Transfer in Qing China (1644-1912)
12:10 PM – 2:00 PM — Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM — Panel 2: The Mongols and the Burmese
Chair: Huaiyu Chen
Bettine Birge: Law and Religion in the Adjudication of Marriage Disputes in China under Mongol Rule (1260-1368)
Paehwan Seol: Clergies and Religion households on the Jarghu (Mongol Inquisition): Embodied Prayer for Great Qans and Legal and Physical Autonomy
Kate Crosby: What is in a judgement? From canonical self-regulation to military control in Burmese Theravada
Day 2 – Saturday, June 1
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM — Panel 3: Japan
Chair: Yasmin Flodin-Ali
Clark Chilson: Lawful Meditation: Naikan and How the Japanese Constitution Incentivized Its Secularization
Ernils Larsson: Religious freedom in pluralist Japan: The SDF Enshrinement case and the balancing of rights of religious communities
Levi McLaughlin: The Politics of Dissolution: The Unification Church in Japan after the Abe Assassination
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM — Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 AM — Panel 4: Tibet
Chair: Benno Weiner
Charles Ramble: Monks and Nuns Behaving Badly: Disciplinary Measures in Tibetan Buddhist and Bonpo Communities of Highland Nepal in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Weirong Shen: The Yogic Practice of Buddha Amitābha at the Moment of Death: A Fine Blend of the Sūtric and Tantric Practice of Mahayana Buddhism
Cuilan Liu: The Peacock’s Poison: Clerical Immunity in Tibetan Buddhism
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM—Lunch Break
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM — Panel 5: Beyond Asia
Chair: Clark Chilson
Spearlt: Abdul Maalik Muhammad: A Prisoner Pursuing Divine Justice
Yasmine Flodin-Ali: The Fatwa Function of a Domestic Violence Prevention Manual
Dannial T. Cardillo: Buddhist Inmates and Litigation in the US
3:30 PM-3:45 PM — Closing Remarks
Adam Shear, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Cuilan Liu 