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Ghosts of the Present: Nationalism and the Sinitic Cosmopolitan in the Medieval South
April 17 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 1:00 PM on Thursday, April 16 for campus access.
Convening a group of distinguished scholars of Chinese and Vietnamese history, this conference interrogates the role of modern nationalist ideation on scholarly reconstructions of the past. The specters of Chinese and Vietnamese national identity have exerted themselves with extraordinary strength on research into the past, shaping both the questions we ask and the boundaries we draw, often according to implicit assumptions about what constitutes “China” or “Vietnam.” A series of panels will explore diverse facets of nationalist ideation in the Lingnan region, beginning with 19th and 20th century conceptions before reflecting on how these modern notions inform, constrain, or confuse scholarly understanding of the medieval period, broadly defined here as the 1st Millennium CE.
Moderators: Lu Kou, Director Of Undergraduate Studies, Assistant Professor, East Asian Langs & Cultures; John D. Phan, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
Speakers:
- Francis Allard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Mark Alves, Montgomery College
- Erica Brindley, Pennsylvania State University
- Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College
- Hugh Clark, Ursinus College
- NGUYỄN Tuấn-Cường, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
- Robert Hymes, Columbia University
- Anna Shields, Princeton University
- Nicolas Tackett, UC Berkeley
- Keith Taylor, Cornell University
- Yang Shao-yun, Denison University
- Yin Shoufu, University of British Columbia
This event is sponsored by the Critical Chinese Humanities, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Department of History, the Linguistics Program, and the Tang Center for Early China.
