2020 – 2021 Academic Year Schedule

Early China Seminar Lecture Series

2020-2021
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, we have decided to move the seminars online for  2020-2021.  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

09/25/2020
Speaker: Gideon Shelach-Lavi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Title: “What were the Prime Movers for the Transition to Agriculture: Insights from Archaeological Research in Northeast China”
Time: 9:00–11:00 AM EST

10/23/2020
Speaker: Christian Peterson (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
Title: Understanding Hongshan Core-Zone Households and Communities
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST

11/06/2020
Speaker: Olivia Milburn (Seoul National University)
Title: “Good Wives? Jealousy and Domestic Violence in Marriages in Early China”
Time: 7:00-9:00 PM EST

11/20/2020
Speaker: Pauline Sebillaud (French National Centre for Scientific Research; Jilin University)
Title: “Communities and settlement in hunter-gatherer societies in Northeast China”
Time: POSTPONED

12/11/2020
Speaker: Jianguo Liu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Title: Water Management in Prehistoric China: A Case Study of the Jianghan Plain (6000-4000 BP)
Time: 8-10 PM EST

02/19/2021
Speaker: Min Li (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: Charting the Early Chinese Oikumene
Time: 4:30-6:30pm EST

03/12/2021
Speaker: Romain Graziani (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Title: Fields, Markets and Trees: contending paradigms of growth in Early China
Time: 9:00-11:00am EST

03/26/2021
Speaker: Moonsil Lee Kim (Rhode Island College)
Title: Feasts and Gifts: Food Redistribution in Early Imperial China
Time: 4:30-6:30pm EST