This is the detailed program of UKABS conference 2021. Thursday 1st July 2021 BST 9.15-10.15 UKABS Annual General Meeting Open to all attendees of the conference, though voting is restricted to members of UKABS. 10.30-10.45 Welcome 10.45-12.00 National Museums Scotland Roundtable: “Images of the Buddha: Collecting Histories and the Displays of Buddhist Material in Public Museums” Emma Martin (Chair) Friederike Voigt Marjolein de Raat Qin Cao Karwin Cheung 12.10-1.00 Panel: “Visions of Deities” Chaired by Ian Astley Yen-Yi Chan – ‘A Divine Vision on Earth: One Thousand Images of Kannon from Kōfukuji’ Hillary Pedersen – ‘Iconography and Efficacy of the Kannonkyō-ji Niō Ofuda’ Yui Suzuki – ‘Saved by Kannon: Mourning, Memorials and Remembrance at Iwo Jima’ 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.50 Panel: “Materiality” Chaired by Elodie Pascal Sherry Fowler – ‘A Deep Dive and Rare Resurrection of a Buddhist Bell’ Carolyn Wargula – ‘Embodied Objects: Chūjōhime’s Hair Embroideries and the Transformation of the Female Body’ Amy McNair – ‘The Fifth Garden of Ryūgen-in’ 3.00-4.15 Roundtable: “Aesthetics of Buddhist Belonging in/through Objects and Action” Erica Baffelli and Paulina Kolata (Chairs) Trine Brox Jane Caple Gwendolyn Gillson Levi McLaughlin Frederik Schröer Dominique Townsend Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg 4.30-5.45 Roundtable: “Decolonisation and Buddhist Studies” Alice Collett (Chair) Daud Ali Elizabeth Harris Salila Kulshreshta Patrice Ladwig 6.00-7.00 Keynote lecture: Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania) Chaired by Naomi Appleton “Cajoleries and Thin Description in the Study of Thai Buddhist Art” Friday 2nd July 2021 BST 10.00-11.30 PhD student Q&A session (posters and videos viewable in advance) 11.45-1.00 Roundtable: “Buddhist Materialities in Premodern Japan” Cynthea J. Bogel (Chair, Kyushu University) Miriam Chusid (University of Washington) Michael Como (Columbia University) Hank Glassman (Haverford College) 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.50 Panel: “Illustrated Manuscripts” Chaired by Naomi Appleton Anne Bancroft – ‘Searching for Images of Protectors with Sacred Script’ Jana Igunma – ‘Illustrated Yogāvacāra Manuals from the Khmer, Thai and Lao Buddhist Traditions’ Elisabeth Kindall – ‘Walking Meditation in a Painted Landscape Scroll’ 3.00-3.50 Panel: “Fragments and Calligraphy” Chaired by Joachim Gentz Edward Kamens – ‘Material and Immaterial Transformations: Thoughts on Sūtra Fragments in Tekagami’ Akiko Walley – ‘Burning Still: Calligraphy Collecting and the Appreciation of “Burnt Sūtra”’ Michael Jamentz – ‘Fujiwara no Toshinori, Shinjaku, Master of Words and Images’ 4.00-5.15 Roundtable: “Performing scripture: Text Meets Art, Music and Drama” Eviatar Shulman (Chair) Pia Brancaccio Natalie Gummer Trent Walker 5.20-6.20 Keynote lecture: Pamela Winfield (Elon University) Chaired by Halle O’Neal “What’s in A Nāma? A Rūpa Would Smell as Sweet: Reflections on Sensational Buddhism” 6.20 Close