2024 – 2025 Academic Year Schedule

Early China Seminar Lecture Series
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 2024-2025! Please click on ”Request Pre-circulated Paper” to register for the events. All visitors without a CUID are required to receive pre-authorization to gain access to Morningside campus as per guidelines of Columbia Morningside campus access.  

We look forward to seeing you in our in-person meetings.

Schedule

09/27/2024
Speaker: Amelia Ying Qin, California State University, Sacramento
Title: “History and Lore: Interpretive Emplotment and ‘Empty Writing’ in the ‘Hereditary House of Zhao’”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

10/11/2024
Speaker: Jae-hoon Shim, Dankook University
Title: “Localizing Sagehood: Cultural Memory of Yao, Shun, and Yu in Shanxi”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

11/08/2024
Speaker: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, University of Washington
Title: “A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Zoom

12/06/2024
Speaker: Trenton Wilson, Princeton University
Title: “A World without Hope: Putting an End to Luck in Early Chinese Thought”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

02/07/2025
Speaker: Fan Zhang, Tulane University
Title: “Staging the Corpse: Performativity and Materiality in Northern Wei Mortuary Art”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

03/28/2025
Speaker: Tao Duan, Fudan University
Title: “Aristocratic Lineage Structures in Western Zhou”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

04/11/2025
Speaker: Noa Hegesh, Tel Aviv University
Title: “Subtle Politics: The Case of Ritual Music in the Northern Zhou”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House