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The talk will be in Japanese. "日本古代の音楽 (Music in Ancient Japanese Temples)" Shinji Yoshikawa (吉川真司), visiting Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, specializes in ancient Japanese history from the 7th through the 11th century. He has focused mainly on the political system. His research is based on documents,  both official and private ones, including variety of diaries of Heian aristocrats. Also, he is interested in Chinese culture, which had a great influence on  ancient Japan. In recent years,…

“Making Confucians in Confinement: Imprisoned Officials in Ming China (1368-1644)” Ying Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University Dorothy Y. Ko, Professor, Department of History, Barnard College Monday, December 4, 2017 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM International Affairs Building Room 918 No registration required Co-sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University

Suzanne Romaine, University of Oxford In this lecture Dr. Romaine proposes a doughnut as a model for thinking about the relationship between language and inequality in a linguistically diverse world and for explaining why language is the missing link in the global debate on sustainability, equity and poverty. By suggesting how human well-being can exist only within limits that are both social and ecological, the doughnut highlights the importance of addressing environmental sustainability and social justice together. Policies that discriminate…

Early China Seminar Lecture Series: “How Classical Chinese Grammar Looked to Its First Native Students” Speaker: David Prager Branner, independent scholar "Yáng Shùdá 楊樹達 (1885–1956) produced some of the fullest and most carefully documented native grammar studies of Classical Chinese on modern principles, during the first three decades of the Republic of China. He read and critiqued the work of Mǎ Jiànzhōng ⾺建忠 (1845–1900), Chén Chéngzé 陳承澤 (1885–1922), and Zhāng Shìzhāo 章⼠釗 (1881–1973) with great care and revised their ideas…

Early China Seminar Lecture Series: Notes on the Note (ji 記) in Early Chinese Manuscripts: Between Administration and Affect Luke Habberstad, University of Oregon Seminar Co-Chairs: Jue Guo, Barnard College, Columbia University Roderick Campbell, Institute for the Study of Ancient World, New York University March 2rd, 2018 (Friday) 4:30-6:30pm 1754 Board Room, Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive Students of early Chinese manuscript culture continue to debate various typologies of the ever-growing corpus of excavated evidence. Many, however, at least implicitly…

"Some Observations on the Social Status of the Spiritual Teacher in Tibet" Leonard van der Kuijp (Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard University) Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University Friday, March 9, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Kent 403, Columbia University No registration required

A Conversation on Early Gelug Institutional History José Cabezón, Dalai Lama Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University Friday, March 16, 2018 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Kent 403, Columbia University

Early China Seminar Lecture Series: “Technological Changes on the Proto-Silk Roads: The Tao River Archaeology Project, Gansu, China” Rowan Flad, Harvard University Friday, March 23, 2018 4:30-6:30 PM Seminar Room 3 & 4, Faculty House Around 4000 years ago a series of changes in subsistence and craft technologies conspired to radically transform material culture and human lives along the “proto-Silk Roads” in Northwest China. The most significant changes occurred during the Qijia Culture period (ca. 4200-3600 calBP). Bronze metallurgy became…