Tang Studies Society
Summer 2008 eNewsletter
Contents: Tang Studies Journal Update
Call for Papers: Tang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years
New Ph.D. Program in Pre-Modern Chinese History at UCSD
Reminders from the Secretary-Treasurer
TANG STUDIES JOURNAL UPDATE
Volume 22 of our journal Tang Studies was shipped to current members
and subscribers in December 2007. Volume 23/24 was shipped to current
members and subscribers in May 2008. Volume 25 is scheduled to ship in
late 2008. Members and subscribers who are current as of 2008 will
receive vols. 23/24 and 25 for the single-year membership fee.
CALL FOR PAPERS: TANG STUDIES: THE NEXT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
The Tang Studies Society and the University at Albany will co-sponsor
an international conference on Tang Studies: The Next Twenty-five
Years to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Societys founding.
The conference will be held at the Universitys campus in Albany, NY
May 8-9, 2009. The goal of the conference is to assess the current
state of Tang studies and to encourage new avenues of research and
collaboration among scholars of medieval China. The Society is
therefore soliciting paper proposals concerning the following themes:
(1) Tang China and the World; (2) Historical Transitions and the Tang
(both from Six Dynasties to Tang and from Tang to Sung); (3) Religion
in the Tang; (4) Tang Literature; (5) Tang China in Intellectual
History; (6) Tang material culture (including archaeology, art
history, history of science, and technology). Paper proposals should
contain the authors name, institutional affiliation, address, and a
250 word abstract of the paper. Please send proposals to the chair of
the organizing committee: Anthony DeBlasi, Department of East Asian
Studies, Humanities 210, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue,
Albany, NY 12222 or deblasi(a)albany.edu by November 1, 2008. The
committee also welcomes proposals for complete panels, with abstracts
for each paper. Limited funding is available to cover some of the costs
for scholars presenting papers. Please note: one must be a member of
(or join) the Tang Studies Society to deliver a paper at the
conference. Non-members are welcome to register for and attend the
conference.
For more information about proposals, membership, and conference
registration, visit the Societys website at www.tangstudies.org
NEW PH.D. PROGRAM IN PRE-MODERN CHINESE HISTORY AT UCSD
Suzanne Cahill, Weijing Lu, and Sarah Schneewind are pleased to
announce that the Department of History of the University of
California, San Diego will now consider qualified applicants for the
Ph.D. program in History, with a concentration in Pre-modern Chinese
History.
The pre-modern Chinese History graduate program at UCSD will be small,
and will be focused on our own areas of interest. In particular, we
welcome applications from those who are interested in any area of Tang
history; in Buddhist or Daoist studies, material culture, gender
studies, or silk road studies for the Six Dynasties through the Tang
periods; or in late imperial Chinese history, especially gender and
family studies; Ming social, political, and institutional history; and
the history of East-West contacts before the McCartney mission.
Students in the Pre-modern Chinese history program will take a minor
field in Modern Chinese history; a minor field in the pre-modern
history of another area; and a third minor field in one of: Modern
Japanese History; a relevant field outside of East Asia; or a
discipline outside of History. Seminars and colloquia,
departmentally-required cross-field courses in theory and method, and
teaching assistanceships will provide ample opportunities to study with
graduate students in other fields of history.
To advance to candidacy, proficiency must be demonstrated in Chinese,
Classical Chinese, and another Asian or European language relevant to
the proposed dissertation topic.
We hope you will tell your best students planning to undertake graduate
study about our new program. For more information, please see our
department website (http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/) or write to us.
REMINDERS FROM THE SECRETARY-TREASURER
Copies of Tang Studies volume 23/24 were mailed to current members in
mid-May. If you have not yet received your copy of the journal, please
contact me to make sure that your membership dues are up-to-date. You
may pay via check (U.S. banks only) or online via Paypal. To pay
online, go to:
http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html and select your membership category.
If you are moving, please take a minute and email me your forwarding
address. We want to be able to get your copy of the journal and other
Society correspondence to you in a timely manner, as well as save the
expense of returned postage.
Our next formal meeting will take place in conjunction with the
upcoming annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Chicago
(26-29 March 2009).
Have a great summer, and we hope to see you next year in Chicago and/or
Albany.
J. Michael Farmer
Secretary-Treasurer
Tang Studies Society
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