2021 – 2022 Academic Year Schedule (Spring 2022)

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.

We’re pleased to announce the Early China Seminar will resume its traditional in-person format on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus for the remainder of the spring semester in April and May! Please see Seminar Safety Guidelines for attendance information. We look forward to seeing you in our in-person meetings.

Schedule

02/11/2022
Speaker: Mick Hunter (Yale University)
Title: “Early Chinese Thought via Shijing 詩經”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Zoom

02/18/2022
Speaker: Qingzhu Wang (Columbia University)
Title: “Copper Mining and Bronze Production in Shandong Province: A New Perspective on the Political Economy of the Shang State”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Zoom

03/11/2022
Speaker: Ori Tavor (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: “What is Early Chinese Religion?”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Zoom

04/08/2022
Speaker: Gil Raz (Dartmouth College)
Title: “Stele-statues and Manuscripts: Exploring the Buddho-Daoist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

04/15/2022
Speaker: Huaqiang Song (Wuhan University)
Title: “Revisiting the Syntactical Functions and Semantic Features of the Universal Quantifier tun屯 in Early Chinese Texts”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House

05/06/2022
Speaker: Erica Brindley (Pennsylvania State University)
Title: “Engineering and Defense in the Later Mohist Military Chapters: The Organization of People, Objects, and Landscapes”
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST
Venue: Faculty House