Presentations Scheduled for 2006-2007
(Seminar papers will be posted here about 10 days before the meetings in which they are presented. For past papers, click on 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 at the main page).
September
23, 2006
● Susan Weld (US
Congress):
“Official
Corruption in Excavated Texts”
● Martin Kern
(Princeton University):
“The
Performance of Writing in the Western Zhou”
November
11, 2006
● Sarah Allan (Dartmouth College):
“On the Identity of Shang Di
and the Origin of the Concept of a Celestial Mandate (tian ming)”
● Thomas H.C. Lee (City College of New York,
CUNY):
“Functional
Literacy, General Literacy, and Literacy Crisis”
December
4, 2006 (Monday): Special Event
Symposium on Chinese archaeology given by the Jilin
University delegation: Professors Lin Yun, Zhu Hong, Teng Mingyu, and Zhou Hui.
Program will be announced soon. Click.
February
24, 2007
● Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California at Los Angeles):
● Yang Nan (Central University of Nationality,
Beijing; visiting University of North Carolina):
“The Rise and Decline of the Neolithic Liangzhu Culture of Southeastern China”
March
17, 2007
● Constance Cook (Lehigh
University):
“Education
and the Way of the Former Kings”
April
7, 2007
● Wang
Wei (Professor and Director of the Institute of Archaeology, CASS):
“Key
Issues in the Origin of Ancient Chinese Civilization: Archaeological Research”
● Robin
Yates (McGill University, Canada):
“Soldiers,
Scribes, and Women: Literacy among the Lower Orders in the Early Empire”
May
5, 2007
● Robert Eno (Indiana University):
“Literary and Historical Clues to Ru Disciple Traditions: Zigong and the Identity of the Meng School”
● Matthias Richter (University of Freiburg, Germany; visiting the University of Chicago):
● Zeng Zhenyu (Shandong University):
“Guodian Bamboo Texts and the Philosophical Nature of ‘Tian’ (Heaven) in Xunzi”