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Early China Seminar Special Workshops Program – Current Program

2015 – 2016 Academic Year Schedule

Early China Seminar Special Workshop

Key Topics 2015-16:
“Ritual Practices, Ontologies, and Early Chinese Religion in Comparative Perspective”

Sponsored by
The Tang Center for Early China;
CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, USA;
Columbia University Seminars;
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Time
All Meetings will be on Friday, 4:30-6:30PM, unless otherwise noted, and by invitation only.

Schedule

10/30/2015
Discursive Beginnings: Religion, Ontology, and the Nature-Culture Divide in Early China
Discussants
Mark Csikszentmihalyi (University of California, Berkeley)
Roderick Campbell (ISAW, New York University)
Severin Fowles (Barnard College)
Benjamin Alberti (Framingham State University) 

12/18/2015
Powerful Practices and their Ontological Bases: “Ritual”, “Sacrifice”, and “Cult” in Ancient China
Discussants
Michael Puett (Harvard University)
Beate Pongratz-Leisten (ISAW, NYU)

02/19/2016
Divination: Ontologies of Ancient Futures
Discussants
TBA

04/08/2016
Entities: Gods, Ancestors, Ghosts, and Monsters
Discussants
TBA

Announcement

April 11, 2025 – Online
Early China Seminar – Noa Hegesh
New Publication – Tang Center Series in Early China
Remembrance in Clay and Stone – Hajni Elias

Contact:

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New York, NY 10027

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Tel: 212.854.5546  Fax: 212.851.2510
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