2021 – 2022 Academic Year Schedule (Fall 2021)

Early China Seminar Lecture Series

2021-2022
Sponsored by
Tang Center for Early China;
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University;
Columbia University Seminars

Time
All Meetings will be on Friday, 4:30-6:30PM, unless otherwise noted, open to members, affiliates, and graduate students.

Due to the extraordinary circumstances of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the seminars will remain online for Fall 2021.  All seminars will be hosted via Zoom on Fridays, but the start and end times may vary due to time differences of the speaker.

Schedule

10/08/2021
Speaker: Maria Khayutina (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Title: “Shang and Zhou Concepts of Family and Lineage”
Time: 9:00–11:00 AM EST

11/19/2021
Speaker: Rens Krijgsman (Tsinghua University)
Title: “Collecting and Disseminating Technical Knowledge”
Time: 8:00-10:00 AM EST

12/10/2021
Speaker: Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (French National Centre for Scientific Research / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Title: “The Han River as the Central Axis and the Predominance of Water: Questioning the Claim of “No Chu-related Traits” in the View of Terrestrial Space in the Rong Cheng shi Manuscript (4th c. BCE)”
Time: 9:00 -11 AM EST