The Society for the Study of Early China Seventh Annual Conference
Thursday, 21 March 2019
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, CO
Room: Columbine
Free and open to the public
Session 1, Moderator: Robin D.S. Yates (McGill University)
- 9:00 – 9:30 Anne Kinney (University of Virginia), “A Preliminary Look at the Jiao Nü”
- 9:30 – 10:00 Luke Waring (Princeton University), “The Wu ze you xing 物則有形: Manuscript and Textual Visuality at Mawangdui”
- 10:00 – 10:30 Piotr Gibas (College of Charleston), “The ‘Curse of Chu’”
10:30 – 10:45 Break
Session 2, Moderator: Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill University)
- 10:45 – 11:15 Newell Ann Van Auken (University of Iowa), “Women, Graded Rank, and the Hierarchical System of the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu 春秋)”
- 11:15 – 11:45 Yegor Grebnev (Merton College, Oxford), “Co-Penetration of Literature and Epigraphy in the Fourth Century BC”
- 11:45 – 12:15 He Jianjun (University of Kentucky), “Philosophers as Body Readers: Wang Chong and Wang Fu’s Discussions of Physiognomy”
12:15 – 1:45 Break for lunch
Session 3, Moderator: SHI Jie (Bryn Mawr College)
- 1:45 – 2:15 Garret Olberding (University of Oklahoma), “Shadows in the Mirror: Reflective Representation of Physical Space in Early China”
- 2:15 – 2:45 YANG Lei (Carleton College), “Jade Suits and Transcendence in Han Tombs”
- 2:45 – 3:15 Federico Valenti (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge), “A ‘Non-Inclusive’ Taxonomy: New Theories on Animal Classification in Early China”
3:15 – 3:30 Break
Session 4, Moderator: Joseph Allen (University of Minnesota)
- 3:30 – 4:00 David Lebovitz (University of Chicago), “Auto-Commentary, Proto-Commentary, and the Historicizing Impulse in Shijing Poetics”
- 4:00 – 4:30 Fu Wentian (McGill University), “Homesickness: A Study of Emotion, Performance and Society in Qin-Han China”
- 4:30 – 5:00 Thomas Noel (Villanova University), “The Poetics of Divination and the Prosody of Mountains and Waters: A Prehistory of Shanshui Lyricism in the Eastern Han”
- 5:00 SSEC Business Meeting
