Category Archives: Conference

Jiwei Ci’s Upcoming Visit to Harvard

Philosopher Jiwei Ci from the University of Hong Kong will be spending a couple weeks at Harvard in November and giving a series of lectures. The details here here: Fairbank Democracy and China poster. There will also be a one-day conference on Friday, November 13 titled “Democracy and China: Philosophical-Poltical Reflections” with a number of speakers, and Prof. Ci’s commentary. (I’ll post details of that once it has been finalized.)

NECCT 4 Program and Registration

The Program for the 4th Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought is now available; see below. Attendance is free and open via preregistration. Presenters and panel chairs are already pre-registered for this conference. However, anyone else who would like to attend the conference, the dinner Saturday night, and receive meal tickets for lunch on Saturday and Sunday should email BOTH Tom Radice (RadiceT1@SouthernCT.edu) and Xiaomei Yang (Yangx1@SouthernCT.edu) no later than Friday, October 16, 2015.

2015 Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought
Southern Connecticut State University
Adanti Student Center (ASC) Ballroom (3rd floor)
November 7-8, 2015

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CFP for AOS Annual Meeting

The Call for Papers for the 226th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society in 2016 has been published:

https://www.americanorientalsociety.org/aos-annual-meeting-2016/

The national meeting will take place from Friday, March 18, to Monday, March 21, 2016, in Boston, MA. The deadline for the submission of abstract and attendant forms is October 15, 2015.

Graduate students who expect to apply for Graduate Student Award Fund support must indicate their intention on the Announcement of Communication form. Only those applicants who so indicate in advance on the form will be eligible to compete for the award of funds. For more information on the “Graduate Student Award for Travel to the Annual Meeting” see:

https://www.americanorientalsociety.org/annual-meeting/graduate-student-award-for-travel-to-the-annual-meeting/

Workshop on Memory and Text

Workshop: “Memory and Text in Premodern East Asia: Concepts, Theories, and Methods” 

Dates: October 1-3, 2015

Venue: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH


This workshop offers unique opportunities for scholars from the premodern China, Japan, and Korea fields to exchange, compare, and explore different modes of research surrounding “memory and text.”

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Call for Papers: “New Ways of Reading Early Chinese Texts”

Although Zhou texts have been extensively commented upon for nearly 2,500 years, recent events have fundamentally altered the way these texts are understood. These events include the still-influential Doubting Antiquity movement, discovery of  previously unknown manuscripts during excavations, archaeology of material culture that expands our knowledge of Zhou life, and new phonetic restorations of ancient Chinese. In present day China, some early texts have been adapted into popular culture — the Confucian scholar Yu Dan has become a celebrity based on her charismatic presentation of the Lunyu.
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