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T'ang Studies Society Panel Sponsorships at the 2022 AAS Annual Meeting
by T'ang Studies Society 16 Oct '22

16 Oct '22

Dear Members and Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, The Society is happy to announce that it will sponsor one or more deserving panels on topics related to the study of the Tang dynasty at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu and online. The sponsorship includes small subventions for individual panelists. The funding is intended to defray some of the costs of society members presenting Tang-relevant research at the AAS Annual Meeting, including travel and registration expenses. Funding levels are determined during the review process. Scholars at any stage of their careers are eligible. Papers intended for future submission to the Tang Studies journal will receive priority. The application deadline is November 10, 2021. The full call for applications is linked to the society website: [ http://tangstudies.org/Announcements.html | http://tangstudies.org/Announcements.html ] Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html

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Ascetic Influencers: The Manichaeans and the Development of Early Christian Asceticism, Dr. Columba Stewart, Nov. 9 at 5pm
by T'ang Studies Society 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

Dear Members and Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, Society board member, Michelle Wang, would like to call the Zoom talk below to your attention. Best regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html From: "mcw57" <mcw57(a)georgetown.edu> To: "T'ang Studies Society" <admin(a)tangstudies.org> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 4:59:48 PM Subject: Fwd: 7th Annual Costan Lecture in Early Christianity with Dr. Columba Stewart, Nov. 9 at 5pm Dear Jonathan, This event may be of interest to the group! Many thanks, Michelle Michelle C. Wang Associate Professor Department of Art and Art History Georgetown University 1221 36th St. NW, Walsh 102 Washington, DC 20057-1210 email: [ mailto:mcw57@georgetown.edu | mcw57(a)georgetown.edu ] cell: (202) 813-0848 (text/call) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: GU Medieval Studies < [ mailto:medievalstudies@georgetown.edu | medievalstudies(a)georgetown.edu ] > Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 4:57 PM Subject: 7th Annual Costan Lecture in Early Christianity with Dr. Columba Stewart, Nov. 9 at 5pm To: The Georgetown University Department of Theology and Religious Studies invites you to the 7th Annual Costan Lecture in Early Christianity Columba Stewart, OSB Professor of Theology, St. John’s University (Minnesota) Executive Director, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library “Ascetic Influencers: The Manichaeans and the Development of Early Christian Asceticism” Tuesday, November 9, 5:00 p.m. ICC Auditorium Reception to Follow (Tent on White-Gravenor Esplanade) This lecture will recover the role played by the followers of Mani, “Apostle of Jesus Christ” (216-277 CE), and the church he created, in the formation of the Christian ascetical movements out of which “monasticism” emerged in the fourth and fifth centuries. Recovery of Manichaean manuscripts in the twentieth century and their eventual publication has transformed our understanding of the origins of the Manichaean movement, its prominence and geographical spread in Late Antiquity, and the threat it posed to Nicene Christianity not only by its beliefs but also by the ascetic practice of its elite core. This year's lecture will be given by Columba Stewart OSB, a medievalist specializing in Christian monasticism who gave the NEH Jefferson Lecture in 2019. He is also executive director of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's University and Abbey in Minnesota. Please click here to register: [ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-costan-lecture-in-early-christianit… | RSVP for Costan Lecture ] , or [ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-costan-lecture-in-early-christianit… | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-costan-lecture-in-early-christianit… ] . The event will also be live-streamed for those unable to attend in person. Georgetown University students and faculty affiliated with the Global Medieval Studies Program are also invited to participate in a Conversation with Dr. Columba Stewart OSB on Monday, November 8th, from 4:00 to 5:30pm . Due to COVID-19 protocols, only 15-20 in-person attendees will be permitted; additional attendees will be able to participate live over Zoom. Please register for the event [ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-annual-costan-lecture-conversation-with-co… | here ] . COVID-19 SAFETY: Georgetown University is a vaccinated campus. Members of the GU community should expect to show their GOcards; visitors should show confirmation of having submitted documentation via the public health portal (link provided with registration). Everyone inside a university building is required to wear a mask covering mouth and nose at all times. For more information, please write to [ mailto:Costan.Lecture@georgetown.edu | Costan.Lecture(a)georgetown.edu ] . -- Global Medieval Studies Program, Georgetown University Prof. Francesco Ciabattoni, Ad Interim Director EMAIL: < [ mailto:fc237@georgetown.edu | fc237(a)georgetown.edu ] > Italian Department, ICC 307K, Georgetown University 3700 O Street NW Washington DC 20057-1131

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Book publications
by T'ang Studies Society 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, Please see the book announcement below from the society's former secretary-treasurer, David Honey. Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society [ http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html | http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ] I am pleased to announce the publication of the first three volumes of my projected set of five studies entitled A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship . Washington, D.C.: Academica Press, 2021. The volumes are: Volume I, Zhou: Confucius, The Six Classics, and Scholastic Transmission ; Volume II, Qin, Han, Wei, Jin: Canon and Classic; and Volume III, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, and Early Tang: The Decline of Factual Philology and the Rise of Speculative Hermeneutics. Volumes I and II have already appeared in Chinese Translation by Social Sciences Academic Press, and vol. III will appear early next year. Thank you, Dave Honey

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China Humanities Seminar NEXT MONDAY Oct 25th, 4 pm - 5:45 pm EST
by Skaff, Jonathan 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Dear Members and Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, Please see the announcement below from society lifetime member, Tian Xiaofei. Regards, Jonathan Skaff Secretary T’ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html [cid:image001.png@01D7C467.E0B5DED0] Dear friends, This is an invitation to the second talk in the Harvard University China Humanities Seminar series for AY2021–2022, to be held next Monday, October 25th at 4:00-5:45 pm (EST). To attend the talk, please register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoduGupzMuG9zxpckd860pztJ_rzIMCx…<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2furldefense.proofpoint.c…>. After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link to the talk. The China Humanities Seminar is pleased to present: Scott Pearce Western Washington University Looking Behind the Text: The Case of Northern Wei’s “Yuan Pi” Date: Monday, October 25th, 2021, 4:00 pm to 5:45 pm (EST) All textual traditions are based on their own particular sets of assumptions and preoccupations. This was the case of the Chinese classical tradition as well, which having taken full shape under the Han empire, continued to be used as the only available language of written record by the very different regimes that controlled the Yellow River plains after Han collapse. One of these was Northern Wei (386-534), a new kind of empire in East Asia, of Inner Asian origin, whose leadership for generations continued to speak an Inner Asian language and conceptualized the world in terms apparently quite different from those embedded in the Literary Chinese that gives the only descriptions we have of these people and their actions. Here we use the case of a royal kinsman called in the text “Yuan Pi 元丕” (422-503) to examine various ways in which we might attempt to look behind (or through, or under) received text to get a glimpse at least of the actual man. Trained in the history of China, inner Asia, and Japan, and in Chinese thought and religion, Scott Pearce specializes in dynasties of Inner Asian origin that ruled northern China during the 4th through the 6th centuries CE. He has just completed a book on the first major example of such regimes, the Northern Wei (386-534). From this work come scholarly and teaching interests in many related issues, such as the encounter and interaction of cultures, military history, and the arts and poetic forms of East Asia and worlds beyond. Please note that Professor Pearce's talk will be recorded and archived on the Fairbank, MHC and EALC websites. It will be available here<https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/china-humanities-seminar> about a week after the event. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded, please disable your video. The Q&A session will not be recorded. We would also like to mention that our next talk by Professor Suyoung Son is scheduled for November 15th, 8 pm EST (this date is different from the initial flyer). Registration details will go out a week prior to the date. This event is generously sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. For questions, or to unsubscribe from the CHS mailing list, please email Kangni Huang at: kangni_huang(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kangni_huang@g.harvard.edu> We look forward to seeing you at the talk! -- Kangni Huang PhD Candidate East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University kangni_huang(a)g.harvard.edu<mailto:kangni_huang@g.harvard.edu>

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Zoom Talk: Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons: The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China, Thurs., 5 pm EDT
by T'ang Studies Society 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Dear Friends and Members of the T'ang Studies Society, Society member, Yan Liu (SUNY, Buffalo), will deliver a Zoom talk on his new book, [ https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295748993/healing-with-poisons/ | HEALING WITH POISONS ] on October 7 at 5 pm EDT . Everyone is welcome, and registration is required. Asia in Depth Healing with Poisons: The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Medieval China Dr. Yan Liu, SUNY, Buffalo, Oct. 7, 5:00-6:30pm EDT During China’s formative era of pharmacy, poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Focusing on the early Tang period (7th and 8th centuries), this talk illustrates how the court regulated the use of poisons and commissioned new medical treatises to achieve effective governance. It further demonstrates how local people in Dunhuang in present-day Gansu Province in northwestern China adapted such texts, in both form and content, to meet their specific needs. By tracing the flow of medicinal substances in the Tang empire, this talk highlights the entwined processes of the rise of authoritative, standardized medical knowledge and its fluid transformations in local regions. The lecture will be followed by Q&A and a meet-and-greet with the speaker. Please RSVP for the Zoom link: [ https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcO6tqDMsHNfPywKm1yxgTDCaS8K… | https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcO6tqDMsHNfPywKm1yxgTDCaS8K… ] Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, the Department of History, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, and the Global Medieval Studies Program. Jonathan Skaff Secretary T'ang Studies Society http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html

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