Agenda

Kick-off International Workshop “Religions, Thoughts, and Health in Asia”

The world has been turned upside down since the outbreak of the COVID-19. However, the pandemic is not the first human experience of the global-scale pandemic in the longer arc of human history, and there were numerous outbreaks of the diseases and pandemics in the history of Asia. This kick-off international workshop, organized by the department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, invites scholars in Asian Studies to discuss various issues and questions that intersect religion, thoughts, discourses around health in Asia. The workshop hopes to receive contributions dealing with topics that bring different disciplinary approaches and viewpoints on the theme. This workshop will be one of the many international conferences that the department is going to organize from this year on, and we look forward creating a unique venue that develop the network of knowledge and interactions among scholars of Asian Studies in Europe, Asia, and the North America.  

Venue:
This event will be held in a dual mode (Online & onsite)

For onsite attendance, please register at
IT : link registrazione
EN : registration link
up to two days before the event

Online ZOOM - Register in advance for this meeting: link

Organiser: 
Hyojin Lee (Ca’ Foscari University)

Welcome speech:
Jong-Chol AN (Director of the ASK SEED program “East and West in Korean Studies” at Ca’ Foscari University)

Moderators:
Joseph Emanuel SANZO (Ca’ Foscari University, Italy)
Silvia RIVADOSSI (Ca’ Foscari University, Italy)

Keynote speakers: 
Fabio RAMBELLI (Professor, University of California)
Michael STANLEY-BAKER (Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University)

Presentations:
Hyojin LEE (Assistant Professor, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy)
Hyejung Grace KONG (Research Professor, Konyang University College of Medicine)
Sujung KIM (Associate Professor, DePauw University)
Celine CODEREY (Research Fellow, Tembusu College National University of Singapore)
Carmen SIMIOLI (Research fellow, L’Orientale, University of Napoli)
Anna ANDREEVA (Ghent University)
Andrew MACOMBER (Assistant Professor, Oberlin College)

You can watch  prof. Rambelli's keynote speech at thi YouTube link

Co-financed AKS SEED program “East and West in Korean Studies” and Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice