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Call for applications: “Text and Image in the Ancient World”
by T'ang Studies Society 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

Hello Friends of T'ang Studies, We received the announcement below from Prof. Martin Kern of Princeton University on an opportunity that may be of interest to graduate students working on China's Middle Period. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society Sixth Biannual Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar Workshop “Text and Image in the Ancient World” International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures Renmin University of China Beijing, June 8–12, 2020 The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSATC), hosted at Renmin University of China, holds its sixth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar workshop on June 8-12, 2020. Four renowned scholars from the fields of Ancient Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian Civilization will present lectures and seminars on specific topics. There also will be student research activities to complement the lectures and seminars. The principal language of instruction and interaction will be English. Meeting Place: Renmin University of China, Beijing Instructors: Prof. Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (Mesopotamia) Prof. Tom Hare, Princeton University (Japan) Prof. Miao ZHE, Zhejiang University (China) Prof. Ben Haring, Leiden University (Egypt) Schedule: June 7: Arrival and registration June 8-11: Lectures, seminars, and research activities June 12: Student presentations and plenary conclusion June 13: Departure The program accepts forty Ph.D. students and young scholars who specialize in the study of antiquity, globally conceived. Half the number of participants are admitted from Chinese universities, the other half from universities from around the world. Those who have passed their required Ph.D. qualifying examinations and have started writing their dissertations are encouraged to apply, as are postdoctoral students and young scholars. Room, board, and other local expenses will be provided by the Center at Renmin University. Students are expected to cover their own transportation and visa expenses, hopefully with the assistance from their universities or other scholarships. All necessary visa documentation will be provided by the Center. Applications should be sent by March 15, 2020, to: [ mailto:ruc_icsat@163.com | ruc_icsat(a)163.com ] APPLICATION FORM Personal Information Name: Current Address: Current Phone: Current E-mail: Emergency Contact: Date of Birth: Gender: Citizenship: Passport Number and Expiration: Academic Information Academic Status (Ph.D. students): University: Department: Thesis Topic or Research Area: Advisor: Expected Date of Graduation: Study Plan Please describe in one page or less your current research and/or study plans. Include a discussion of what you hope to gain from participation in the workshop and how it will further your research goals and objectives.

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T'ang Studies Renewal Reminder 2019
by T'ang Studies Society 16 Nov '19

16 Nov '19

Hello Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, It is once again that exciting time of the year when the new issue of Tang Studies is about to appear. The 2019 issue (number 37) is coming off the presses as I write, so we will be sending the mailing list of current members to the publisher soon. If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2019, please do so now. If you cannot remember whether you have renewed (some of you did so way back in January), feel free to send us a message and we will check for you ( [ mailto:admin@tangstudies.org | admin(a)tangstudies.org ] ). As we announced at the Annual Meeting in Denver, we have a new slate of officers. I have transitioned to become president. Manling LUO has succeeded me as Treasurer, and Jonathan Skaff has assumed the new separate position of Secretary. As always, you can renew using PayPal through the link on the Membership page of the Society's website: [ http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html | http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ] Alternatively, you can send a check drawn in U.S. dollars on a U.S. bank to: Manling LUO Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Indiana University 355 North Jordan Avenue GISB 2058 Bloomington, IN 47405 If you plan to pay by check, please send a message to us letting us know, so that we can plan accordingly while the check is literally in the mail. Finally, in the spirit of the U.S. charitable calendar, I might mention that there is a donation link on the same Membership page if you would like to remember TSS before the end of the year. In any event, we hope your northern hemisphere autumns and southern hemisphere springs are proceeding well, and we look forward to more scholarly and collegial interaction in the coming months. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society

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Position: Asst. Prof. in Middle Period Chinese History
by T'ang Studies Society 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

Dear friend of the T'ang Studies Society, The Society has received the following search announcement. We thought it would be of interest to our members. The contact for inquiries is contained in the message below. Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society Assistant Professor in Middle Period Chinese History The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Middle Period Chinese history, c. 618-1644, to begin July 1, 2020. We welcome applications from scholars who research any aspect of Middle Period Chinese history. We are especially interested in candidates whose work connects with other scholars in the department and who can help build the diversity and excellence of the department’s intellectual community through research, teaching, and service. The successful candidate will teach HIST 2A: World History, Prehistory to 1000 CE or HIST 2B: World History, 1000 CE – 1700 CE and contribute to the department's lower-division, upper-division, and graduate curriculum. Familiarity with digital methods is preferred but not required. For more information about our department, please visit our website at [ http://www.history.ucsb.edu/ | http://www.history.ucsb.edu/ ] . To qualify, applicants must at a minimum have completed all requirements for a PhD in History or related field (or equivalent degree) except the dissertation (or equivalent) at the time of application. PhD is preferred by the time of appointment. Applicants should submit a cover letter discussing current and future research and teaching interests; a curriculum vitae; one writing sample; and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to the Search Committee through UC Recruit [ https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01583 | https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01583 ] . We also strongly encourage candidates to submit an optional statement of diversity. These statements, if submitted, will be reviewed for evidence of teaching, research, professional and/or public service contributions that promote diversity and equal opportunity, such as effective strategies used for the educational advancement of students in various under-represented groups; demonstrated contributions to the advancement of equitable access and diversity in education; and contributions furthering diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through participation in such activities as recruitment, retention, and mentoring of scholars and students. If not provided at time of application, semi-finalists will be asked to provide a syllabus for an undergraduate course of their specialty and an undergraduate course for a more general audience, and a second writing sample. This position is open until filled. Primary consideration will be given to complete applications received by November 7, 2019. Address inquiries to Professor Kate McDonald, Middle Period China History Search Committee Chair, at [ mailto:kmcdonald@history.ucsb.edu | kmcdonald(a)history.ucsb.edu ] . The University of California at Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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T'ang Studies Society 2020 AAS Panel Sponsorship
by T'ang Studies Society 11 Jul '19

11 Jul '19

Dear Friends of the T'ang Studies Society, The T’ang Studies Society is happy to announce that it will once again sponsor at least one panel that addresses topics related to the study of the Tang dynasty for the 2020 meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston. If you currently have a panel you would like the Board to consider for sponsorship, please submit it to [ mailto:admin@tangstudies.org | admin(a)tangstudies.org ] by July 22 for consideration. The Society will provide some travel subvention money for any panel accepted for its sponsorship. In order to meet the AAS Panel proposal deadline, panel organizers will be notified by July 30, 2019 if their panel has been accepted for sponsorship. Please note that a ll participants in the panel (chair, panelists, and discussant) must be TSS members at the time of submission. Membership information is available at the website: [ http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html | http://tangstudies.org/Membership.html ] You may also send inquiries to admin(a)tangstudies.org We look forward to your proposals. Best regards, Tony Anthony DeBlasi President T'ang Studies Society

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T'ang Studies Society Reminders
by T'ang Studies Society 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Dear Friends of the T’ang Studies Society, We know many of you are preparing for your trip to attend the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Denver. We just wanted to take this opportunity to remind you that the T’ang Studies Society will, as usual, be holding its own Annual Meeting and Reception in conjunction with AAS. The Annual Reception will take place as follows: Date: Saturday, March 23, 2019 Time: 9:00 p.m. (note that the program misprinted this as 9:30 p.m.) Place: Governor’s Square 15 (Concourse, Plaza Building) We would also like to remind you that for the first time, TSS is sponsoring two panels this year. We encourage you to put them on your conference schedule: Friday, March 22, 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Panel 140: Problematizing the Periodization of Tang Poetry Governor’s Square 15, Plaza Building and Saturday, March 23, 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Panel 211: De-Centering Buddhist Kingship Tower Court D, Tower Building We look forward to seeing you in Denver. Best, wishes, The Board of Directors and Officers T'ang Studies Society

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MLA Panel Call for Paper
by T'ang Studies Society 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Dear Colleagues, We are fortunate in having a third panel for the Pre-14 th century Chinese Literature forum of the MLA for the 2020 Annual Convention. Please see the attached description for information on this panel. If you would like to contribute a paper to this panel on "The Classical Chinese Cosmopolis," please contact Benjamin Ridgeway (bridgwa1(a)swarthmore.edu) by March 15. Thanks to Xu Xiaowen for passing this information on to us. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society

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MLA Panel Calls for Papers
by T'ang Studies Society 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce two panels for the Pre-14 th century Chinese Literature forum of the MLA for the 2020 Annual Convention and are soliciting papers for the panels. Please see the attached descriptions for more information. We hope the panels look interesting, and if you would like to contribute a paper to one of them, please contact either Daniel Fried (dfried(a)ualberta.ca) for the "Posthumanism and Premodern China" panel or Jack Chen (jwc8v(a)virginia.edu) for the "What is (Chinese) poetry?" panel by March 15. Thanks to Michael Fuller for passing this information on to us. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society

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T'ang Studies Society AAS Sponsored Panels
by T'ang Studies Society 17 Feb '19

17 Feb '19

Dear Friends of Tang Studies, I am very happy to alert you to an exciting new dimension of the T’ang Studies Society’s academic work. This year, for the first time, the Society is sponsoring two panels at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Denver. If you plan to attend the conference, I encourage you to put them on your conference schedule. Friday, March 22, 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Panel 140: Problematizing the Periodization of Tang Poetry Governor’s Square 15, Plaza Building Chaired by Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Boulder “Periodizing Tang Poetry in the Song Dynasty” Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame “Reading Tang Shi Poems as Classical Chinese Poems” Nicholas M. Williams, University of Hong Kong “The Making of ‘Tang Poetry’” Chunxiao Liu, University of Zurich “Historicizing 'On Historical Themes': Yongshi as a Poetic Category in the Tang” Su Fu, Princeton University Discussant: Anna M. Shields, Princeton University Saturday, March 23, 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Panel 211: De-Centering Buddhist Kingship Tower Court D, Tower Building Chaired by April D. Hughes, Boston University “Ideal Ruler: The Wheel-Turning King in the Maitreya Buddha Murals at Dunhuang” April D. Hughes, Boston University “Mah ā may ū r ī and Buddhist Statesmanship on the Silk Road” Michelle C. Wang, Georgetown University “Recentering Buddhist Kingship: The Scripture for Humane Kings in Dali-Kingdom Images and Texts” Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Discussant: Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University All best, Anna M. Shields President T'ang Studies Society

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Available Position
by T'ang Studies Society 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

Hello friends of the T'ang Studies Society, Michael Hoeckelmann sent the following announcement for a position at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: [ https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/2019/02/01/call-for-applications-full-pro… | https://www.sinologie.phil.fau.de/2019/02/01/call-for-applications-full-pro… ] Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society

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Tang Dynasty Related Professional Opportunity
by T'ang Studies Society 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

Dear Friends of Tang Studies, Michael Hoeckelmann suggested that scholars associated with the T'ang Studies Society might be interested in the following opportunity at the University of Edinburgh. The original post came from Curie Virág. The message appears below my signature. Best, Tony Anthony DeBlasi Secretary-Treasurer T'ang Studies Society Message Post: Dear Listserv members, We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow who specialises in Chinese intellectual and/or cultural history, with background in the history of education and classicising learning in the Tang/Song period. The Research Fellow should have strong interest in exploring and employing cross-cultural approaches to the history of education and empire studies. This post is part of a comparative research project focusing on the Byzantine and middle period Chinese (Tang/Song) empires, titled ?Classicising learning in medieval imperial systems: Cross-cultural approaches to Byzantine paideia and Tang/Song xue? (PAIXUE), which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG 726371, 2017?2022) and co-directed by Niels Gaul and Curie Virág. It is therefore essential that the postholder be genuinely interested in engaging with Byzantine learned culture and practices from a comparative vantage point, and willing to develop the requisite skills and methodologies. Research interests in performance studies, social performances (of learning), and medieval ritualised communication, or willingness to engage with these, would be an advantage. The postholder will pursue his/her own research in close cooperation with the project team, and is expected to present the results of his/her work in a scholarly monograph written with a comparative angle and to co-author at least cross-disciplinary article with a Byzantinist team member. The Research Fellow will become a core member of the small PAIXUE project team that will consist of two Byzantinists and two Sinologists (including the project directors). PAIXUE constitutes the first attempt to study classicising learning and its social, political, and intellectual ramifications systematically and in-depth across two medieval imperial systems, the Byzantine and Tang/Song empires. This post is full time fixed-term for 28 months starting on 1st April 2019, and may be renewable for another 12 months depending on the availability of funding at the end of financial year 2020/21. Salary: £33,199 - £39, 609 (per annum) Closing date: 12th February 2019 at 5pm (GMT) The full job posting can be found here: [ https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPM902/research-fellow | https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPM902/research-fellow ] Any questions can be directed to [ mailto:curie.virag@ed.ac.uk | curie.virag(a)ed.ac.uk ] . Please spread the word! Thank you, Curie Virág

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