2023 – 2024 Academic Year Schedule
Early China Seminar Lecture Series
2023-2024
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.
The Early China Seminar will continue its traditional in-person format on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus for 2023-2024! Please click on ”Request Pre-circulated Paper” to register for the events. We look forward to seeing you in our in-person meetings.
Schedule
09/29/2023
Speaker: Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Stirrings of the Heart, Stirrings of the Cosmos: The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House
10/20/2023
Speaker: Boqun Zhou, University of Hong Kong
Title: “Hunting and Warfare: History of Shi 勢 in Early China”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House
11/10/2023
Speaker: Francis Allard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Hepu and the Maritime Silk Road”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House
12/08/2023
Speaker: Adam Schwartz, Hong Kong Baptist University
Title: “On the Newly Identified Phrase ‘Worry is gone’ yōu wáng 憂亡, in the Shāng Oracle Bone Inscriptions”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House
02/02/2024
Speaker: Hsinning Liu, Academia Sinica
Title: “Tracing the Origins and Evolution of the Signature System in Early Imperial China”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House
03/29/2024
Speaker: Tao Guo , Central China Normal University (China)
Title: “Local Administrative Centers and their Transitions during the Warring States and Qin-Han Period”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House
04/19/2024
Speaker: Hajni Elias, University of Cambridge
Title: “Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House