Past Events
NAKED TEXT - Revealing Layers of Textual Composition in China
Timothy Clifford, Constance A Cook, Huang Guohui, Paul R Goldin, Maddalena Poli, Adam D Smith, Ori Tavor
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"Why Chu: A New View of Chinese Complex Silk Weaving by the 2nd century BCE"
Angela Sheng, McMaster University
Symposium on Gender, Embodiment, and Asian Religions
Visit the conference website at http://web.sas.upenn.edu/gear/
Speakers:
Angela Zito (New York University), author of Of Body and…
A Cumulative Han Culture - Finding Variation in the Western Zhou Expansion
Dr. Yitzchak Jaffe
Abstract:
A Cumulative Han Culture - Finding Variation in the Western Zhou Expansion
Buddhist Pilgrimage in the Late Qing - Itinerary Networks in "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage" (c.1827) and "Records of Travels to Famous mountains" (c.1918)
Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University)
Abstract:
In the early 19th century Ruhai Xiancheng 如海顯承 (fl. 1800-1826) wrote a route book describing itineraries to China's most popular pilgrimage sites for the use of his fellow monks: "Knowing the Paths…
Buddhism & Medicine in Medieval China
C. Pierce Salguero
While often overlooked by historians of Chinese science and medicine, Buddhism shaped a major portion of the medical landscape of medieval China. From talismans and mantras to pharmaceuticals and healing meditations…
CTL Workshop
Nancy S. Steinhardt
CTL Workshop: How to Design a Syllabus
Paul Goldin
Impossible Escape, Impossible Return: Manchukuo and the Indeterminacy of Subjectivity in "Japanese" Transwar Literature and Cinema
Steve Poland
In the late-1950s, writers and filmmakers in Japan turned their attention to the former Japanese "puppet-state" Manchukuo in new ways suggesting not only certain continuities that persisted following the collapse of…
Language, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Literary Taxonomy: Ng Kim Chew and Mahua Literature
Carlos Rojas
Through an examination of short stories from Malaysian-Chinese author Ng Kim Chew’s 2001 collection From Island to Island, in this talk I will reflect the taxonomical functions of criteria such language,…
The Chinatown Game: Critical Play, Storytelling, and Humanities in Praxis
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
My talk will explore the use of analog and digital games, play, and performance in the humanities, as well as the role of storytelling in the classroom. In particular, I will share my experience designing and running…