T’ang Studies Society Summer 2008 eNewsletter Contents: • T’ang Studies Journal Update • Call for Papers: T’ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years • New Ph.D. Program in Pre-Modern Chinese History at UCSD • Reminders from the Secretary-Treasurer T’ANG STUDIES JOURNAL UPDATE Volume 22 of our journal T’ang 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: T’ANG STUDIES: THE NEXT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS The T‘ang Studies Society and the University at Albany will co-sponsor an international conference on T‘ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Society’s founding. The conference will be held at the University’s campus in Albany, NY May 8-9, 2009. The goal of the conference is to assess the current state of T‘ang 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) T‘ang China and the World; (2) Historical Transitions and the T‘ang (both from Six Dynasties to T‘ang and from T‘ang to Sung); (3) Religion in the T‘ang; (4) T‘ang Literature; (5) T‘ang China in Intellectual History; (6) T‘ang material culture (including archaeology, art history, history of science, and technology). Paper proposals should contain the author’s 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@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 Society’s 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 T’ang 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 T’ang Studies Society admin@tangstudies.org This email distribution list is to be used for T’ang Studies Society business only. Please send all items for distribution to the secretary-treasurer. If you wish to be removed from the list, please send an email to admin@tangstudies.org and I will remove your name from the list.