Early China Seminar Program Archive
May 6, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Engineering and Defense in the Later Mohist Military Chapters: The Organization of People, Objects, and Landscapes”
Speaker: Erica Brindley, Pennsylvania State University
April 15, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Revisiting the Syntactical Functions and Semantic Features of the Universal Quantifier tun屯 in Early Chinese Texts”
Speaker: Huaqiang Song, Wuhan University
April 8, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Stele-statues and Manuscripts: Exploring the Buddho-Daoist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties”
Speaker: Gil Raz, Dartmouth College
March 11, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“What is Early Chinese Religion”
Speaker: Ori Tavor, University of Pennsylvania
February 18, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Copper Mining and Bronze Production in Shandong Province: A New Perspective on the Political Economy of the Shang State”
Speaker: Qingzhu Wang, Columbia University
February 11, 2022 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Early Chinese Thought via Shijing 詩經”
Speaker: Mick Hunter, Yale University
December 10, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Han River as the Central Axis and the Predominance of Water: Questioning the Claim of “No Chu-related Traits” in the View of Terrestrial Space in the Rong Cheng shi Manuscript (4th c. BCE)”
Speaker: Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, French National Centre for Scientific Research
November 19, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Collecting and Disseminating Technical Knowledge”
Speaker: Rens Krijgsman, Tsinghua University
October 8, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Shang and Zhou Concepts of Family and Lineage”
Speaker: Maria Khayutina, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
March 26, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Feasts and Gifts: Food Redistribution in Early Imperial China”
Speaker: Moonsil Lee Kim, Rhode Island College
March 12, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Fields, Markets and Trees: Contending Paradigms of Growth in Early China”
Speaker: Romain Graziani, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
February 19, 2021 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Charting the Early Chinese Oikumene”
Speaker: Min Li, University of California, Los Angeles
December 11, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Water Management in Prehistoric China: A Case Study of the Jianghan Plain (6000-4000 BP)”
Speaker: Jianguo Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
November 6, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Good Wives? Jealousy and Domestic Violence in Marriages in Early China”
Speaker: Olivia Milburn, Seoul National University
October 23, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Understanding Hongshan Core-Zone Households and Communities”
Speaker: Christian E. Peterson, University of Hawaii at Manoa
September 25, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“What were the Prime Movers for the Transition to Agriculture: Insights from Archaeological Research in Northeast China”
Speaker: Gideon Shelach-Lavi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
February 21, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Cheap Substitutes or Fashionable Luxuries? The Use of Iron Mirrors in the Eastern Han”
Speaker: Yanlong Guo, Smith College
February 7, 2020 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Material Culture of Personal Adornment in Ancient China”
Speaker: Sheri Lullo, Union College
November 22, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Spring and Autumn Historiography: Formulaic phrasing and hierarchical display in Spring and Autumn records”
Speaker: Newell Ann Van Auken, University of Iowa
October 18, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Inner Asian Frontier Re-examined: Shaping the Study of Artifacts and Mental Boundaries”
Speaker: Yan Sun, Gettysburg College
September 20, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Coining Chinese Civilization: The Emergence of Civilizational Consciousness in Early China”
Speaker: Uffe Bergeton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
May 3, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Ornament, Text, and the Creation of Sishen Mirrors in Western Han China”
Speaker: Jie Shi, Bryn Mawr College
April 19, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Material Culture, Identity, and Statecraft in the State of Zhongshan, Warring States Period”
Speaker: Xiaolong Wu, Hanover College
March 29, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Bronze-vessel Casting Industry and Regional Center of the Huai River Valley during the Shang (ca. 1400–1200 BC)”
Speaker: Xiaolin He, Wuhan University
March 8, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Consequences of the Food Globalization in Prehistory”
Speaker: Xinyi Liu,Washington University in St. Louis
February 22, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Rewriting Early Chinese Technical Literature for the Age of Empire”
Speaker: Ethan Harkness, New York University
February 1, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Approaching Chinese Shamanism through a Comparative Context, With Assistance from the Early Chinese Song Cycle called 'The Nine Songs'”
Speaker: Thomas Michael, Beijing Normal University
January 25, 2019 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“State and Environment in China's First Empire: A Political Ecology of Qin”
Speaker: Brian Lander, Brown University
December 19, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Routes of Communication between Erlitou Culture and the Southern Region in Bronze Age China”
Speaker: Pang Xiaoxia, Tang Center for Early China; Institute of Archaeology, CASS
November 16, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“New Discoveries at Taosi and the Study of State Formation in Early China”
Speaker: Gao Jiangtao, Institute of Archaeology CASS
November 2, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“‘Classical Chinese’ and its Discontents: What, if anything, was yăyán 雅言 ('refined language')?”
Speaker: Wolfgang Behr, University of Zürich
October 12, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought”
Speaker: Michael Ing, Indiana University
September 28, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Researching the Cultural History of Xiangyang through Archaeological Remains”
Speaker: Glenda Chao, Ursinus College
May 4, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Divination and the Body in Ancient China”
Speaker: Constance A. Cook, Lehigh University
April 20, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“On the Creation of the Warring States: An Exploration of a Historiographical Staple”
Speaker: Miranda Brown, University of Michigan
March 23, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Technological Changes on the Proto-Silk Roads: The Tao River Archaeology Project, Gansu, China”
Speaker: Rowan Flad, Harvard University
March 02, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Notes on the Note (ji 記) in Early Chinese Manuscripts: Between Administration and Affect”
Speaker: Luke Habberstad, University of Oregon
February 09, 2018 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“How Classical Chinese Grammar Looked to Its First Native Students”
Speaker: David Prager Branner, independent scholar
November 17th, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Communities and Practice in Early China – Social Action in the Zhou World”
Speaker: Yitzchak Jaffe, ISAW, NYU
October 27th, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Reading Shi Ji without the Biographical Fallacy”
Speaker: Yang Lei, Carleton College
October 6, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Fleshing out the Social Identity of Human Sacrificial Victims in Late Shang, China”
Speaker: Daniela Wolin, Yale University
May 5, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Early Chinese Medical Literature before the Huangdi 黃帝 Classic: New Manuscripts from Laoguanshan 老官⼭ Tomb 3, Sichuan”
Speaker: Donald Harper, University of Chicago
April 14, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Gender and Economic Productivity in Han China”
Speaker: Tamara Chin, Brown University
March 31, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Who is the Barbarian in Zuozhuan?”
Speaker: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University
February 17, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Beyond the Five Colors: Reconsidering Purple and its Sources in Ancient China.”
Speaker: Allison Miller, Southwestern University
January 27, 2017 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Emergence and Development of Mechanical Duplication Technique in the Casting of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions”
Speaker: SAKIKAWA Takashi, Jilin University
December 9, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Understanding Xunzi and Zhuangzi through Hui Shi”
Speaker: Annping Chin, Yale University
November 11, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Investigating the Anyang Bone Industries: Technologies, Standardization, and the Missing Royal Workshop”
Speaker: Yung-Ti Li, University of Chicago
October 14, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The Anthropocene Is A Process Not An Event: China from the Late Neolithic to the Song Dynasty”
Speaker: Tristram Kidder, Washington University in St. Louis
September 9, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Xiaoyao and shuchi : Some Special Uses of Alliterative and Rhyming Binomes in the Transmitted and Excavated Documents”
Speaker: Chen Zhi, Hong Kong Baptist University
May 17, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The First Emperor’s Mausoleum: New Discoveries and New Interpretations”
Speaker: Cao Wei, Shaanxi University, China
April 15, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Picturing Political Abstractions in Han China”
Speaker: Martin Powers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 11, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Idlers on the Southwest Frontier: Native Continuities or Evasions of Han Imperial Time”
Speaker: Alice Yao, University of Chicago
February 28, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“The History of the State of Zeng through New Archeological Discoveries”
Speaker: Fang Qin, Hubei Provincial Museum and Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
February 26, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Dependency vs. Vulnerability in Early China-Steppe Interaction: New Data for Old Problems”
Speaker: Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study
January 29, 2016 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Urban Neighborhoods: Social and Spatial Organization of the Great Shang Settlement”
Speaker: Jing Zhichun, University of British Columbia
December 11, 2015 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Rethinking ritual and the excavation of special deposits at Shang sites”
Speaker: Katrinka Reinhart, San Francisco State University
November 13, 2015 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Recent Discoveries on Old Chinese and Pre-Qín Documents”
Speaker: William H. Baxter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
October 16, 2015 - Early China Seminar Lecture Series
“Excavated Legal Cases from Ancient China and Egypt”
Speaker: Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low, University of California, Santa BarbaraSpeaker: Chen Jianing 陈家宁, Visiting Scholar, EALC, University of Pennsylvania Date: May 8, 2015 Presentation: “The Evolution of Xiwangmu (Queen Mother of the West) and Dongwanggong (King Father of the East) in Archaeological Records” 西王母、東王公源流考——以先秦兩漢考古資料為中心
Speaker: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of California, Berkeley Date: April 3, 2015 Presentation: “Crooked and licentious cults: Han popular movements seen through religion’s double lens”
Speaker: Vincent Leung, ISAW, NYU (2014 – 2015); University of Pittsburgh Date: March 6, 2015 Presentation: “Why History Mattered? On the Politics of the Past in Early China”
Speaker: Gopal Sukhu, Queens College and Columbia University Date: February 6, 2015 Presentation: “Translating the Tian wen: Where is the Irony?”
Speaker: Guolong, Lai, Institute for Advanced Study (2014 – 15); University of Florida Date: December 5, 2014 Presentation: “ ’Rabbit (Tu) and ‘Rat’ (Shu) in Chu Manuscripts: The Contact and Impact of the Linguistic Substratum on Old Chinese”
Speaker: Jessica Rawson, Oxford University Date: November 7, 2014 Presentation: “Why did the Chinese make Bronze Ritual Vessels: Origins and Outcomes”
Speaker(s): Chen Wei 陳偉, Wuhan University; Yang Hua 楊華, Wuhan University; Li Tianhong 李天虹, Wuhan University Date: October 27, 2014 Presentations:
- Chen Wei: “秦簡牘所見的文書制度”
- Yang Hua: “上古中國的‘夜禱’：兼談原始巫術與儒家禮儀的關係”
- Li Tianhong: “文峰塔一號墓曾侯 編鐘的發現及其初步研究”
Speaker: Ken Brashier, Reed College Date: October 3, 2014 Presentation: “Wen, Wu, and me, too: A hypothesis on public memory construction in early China”
