Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Cheap Substitutes or Fashionable Luxuries? The Use of Iron Mirrors in the Eastern Han”Speaker: Yanlong Guo, Smith CollegeTime: February 21, 2020 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) In Winter 2009, the Xigaoxue Tomb no. 2 in Anyang, Henan … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “The Material Culture of Personal Adornment in Ancient China”Speaker: Sheri Lullo, Union CollegeTime: February 7, 2020 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) This presentation considers the increasingly wide range of toiletries, objects of … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Spring and Autumn Historiography: Formulaic phrasing and hierarchical display in Spring and Autumn records”Speaker: Newell Ann Van Auken, University of IowaTime: November 22, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) This study examines the … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “The Inner Asian Frontier Re-examined: Shaping the Study of Artifacts and Mental Boundaries”Speaker: Yan Sun, Gettysburg CollegeTime: October 18, 2019 (5:30-7:30 PM)Location: 951 Schermerhorn Extension This presentation examines the role of artifacts in the Inner Asian Frontier (ca. 3000- ca.700 BCE) traditionally known as the … [Read more...]

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Coining Chinese Civilization: The Emergence of Civilizational Consciousness in Early China”Speaker: Uffe Bergeton, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTime: September 20, 2019 (4:30-6:30 PM)Location: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) Drawing on his book The … [Read more...]