Presentations Scheduled for 2007-2008
(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 22nd, 405 KENT. 1 PM
Anthony Barbieri Low (University of California, Santa
Barbara), “Craftsman’s Literacy: Uses of Writing
among Male and Female Artisans in Qin and Han China”
Jenny Chao-Hui Liu (NYU), “The Great Met Bronze Exhibition of 1938”
November 3rd,
405 KENT. 1 PM
John Major (China Institute), Sarah Queen, and Andrew Meyer “Three Chapters from a New Translation of the Huainanzi”
Luo Xinhui 羅新慧, title pending
Kenneth Holloway, “Social Bonds in Mozi
and Zhuangzi”
February 9th, 405 KENT. 1 PM
Erica Brindley
(Pennsylvania State University), “Bodily Ethics and Notions of the ‘Taboo’: The
Case of Heterodox Music in Early Confucian Discourse”
David Pankenier (Lehigh University), “Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: Uses of
Astronomy in Early China”
Xu Fengxian
(Chinese Academy of Sciences), “The
Implied Range of Lunar Terms on the Basis of the Date-notations in Four Bronze
Inscriptions”
March 8th, 403 KENT (Lounge) (will begin in late morning; details forthcoming)
Ken’ichi Takashima (University of British Columbia), “Reconstructing the Lost “Head” 首: A Paleographical Odyssey”
Chen Kuang Yu (Rutgers University), “The Identity of the Major Players Described
on Huayuanzhuang Dongdi 花園莊東地 OBI”
Li Feng (Columbia University), “Managing the World through Writing: The
Inscribed and Uninscribed Commitments of Western Zhou
Administration”
陳昭容 (Academia Sinica), “Woman Recipients and Woman Casters of Bronzes as Seen in Their Inscriptions"
May 3rd, 403 KENT (Lounge). 1 PM
Li Xinwei (Institute of Archaeology, CASS), “New
Light on the Initial Stage of Social Complexity in the Heartland of Prehistoric
China”
Sun Qing-wei (Beijing University), “New
Discoveries and New Understanding of the Jin Marquis Cemetery”
Zhang Changping
(Hubei Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology),
“Technical
Considerations about the Creation of Bronze Inscriptions in Light of the Zeng 曾 Bronzes from South
China”