“Reading Tang Literature across Disciplines”
Organizer: Nicholas Morrow Williams (Arizona State University)
Draft Program:
Friday, May 6
Morning Session
9:00am: Welcome (Nicholas Morrow Williams)
9:20–10:00am: Timothy W. K. Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University): How to Write a Hagiography in Parallel Prose: Wang Bo on Śākyamuni’s Enlightenment
10:05–10:45am: Richard Van Ness Simmons (The University of Hong Kong): The Language of Táng Poetry as Entryway into the Spoken Language of the Táng
10:50–11:30am: Lucas Bender (Yale): Jiaoran’s Metaphors for Artistry
12:00pm: Lunch
Afternoon Session
2:00–2:40pm: Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto): Du Xunhe 杜荀鶴 (846-904) and the High Tang
2:45–3:25pm: Chen Zhinan (University of Washington, Seattle): A Glance into the Tang Literary Tradition——Notes on Dunhuang Manuscript P. 2526
3:30–4:10pm: Thomas Mazanec (UC Santa Barbara): Religious and Literary Infrastructure in the Tang-Song Transition: The Case of Bai Juyi
4:15–5:05pm: Lucas Klein (Arizona State University): Tang Metaphysics and Translation Theory
Saturday, May 7
Morning Session
9:00–9:40am: Rebecca Doran (University of Miami): Reconstructing and Recontextualizing Zhuangtai ji 妝臺記 (Record of the Dressing Table)
9:50–10:30am: Wu Wei (Arizona State University): Set in Stone: How the Tang Literati Constructed the History of Daoism
10:40–11:20am: Tom Noel (Villanova): Fake News in the Classical Canon
11:30am–12:10pm: Marie Bizais-Lillig (University of Strasbourg (France)): Tracing Back Snippets of Knowledge Embedded in Tang Poems
12:30pm: Lunch
Afternoon Session
2:00–2:40pm: Linda Rui Feng (University of Toronto): Making Sense of Scents in Tang Literature: Prose Anecdotes and Beyond
2:45–3:25pm: Hin Ming Frankie Chik (Arizona State University): The Ritualistic Abdication: A Research Note on the Formalistic Edicts of Abdication in the Sui-Tang Transition
3:30–4:10pm: Josiah Stork (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Reading the Dragons of the Tàipíng Guǎngjì: A Queer Eco-critical Approach
4:15–5:05pm: Nicholas Williams (Arizona State University): Liu Zongyuan’s Dialogue with Tradition: On the “Tian dui
Organizer: Dr. Mario Poceski, University of Florida
Friday Morning Session
9:00 Opening Remarks (Mario Poceski)
9:20-10:00 Poul Andersen (Univ. of Hawaii): Ti and yong, Dao and fa: A Daoist theory of ritual
10:10-10:50 David Mozina (independent): Ritual practices in Daoist Fengdu traditions during the Southern Song dynasty
11:00-11:40 Matthew Wells (Eide Center): Refined contemplation 精思 in the Shangqing tradition
12:00 Lunch
Friday Afternoon Session
2:00-2:40 Dixuan Chen (Grinnell College): Healing rituals in early Chinese Buddhism
2:50-3:30 April Hughes (Boston Univ.): Recitations of Buddhist scriptures according to Dunhuang manuscripts
3:30-4:00 coffee break
4:00-4:40 Jiang Wu (Univ. of Arizona): Reading and writing as contemplative practices in Chan Buddhism
4:50-5:30 Final Discussion
Saturday Morning Session
9:20-10:00 Joshua Capitanio (Stanford Univ.): Liturgy as Contemplative Practice in Song Daoism
10:10-10:50 Gil Raz (Dartmouth College): The emergence of Daoist iconographic practice: contemplation or ritual?
11:00-11:40 Richard G. Wang (Univ. of Florida): Ming Daoist master Liu Yuanran’s discourse on neidan in the context of ritual
12:00 Lunch
Saturday Afternoon Session
2:00-2:40 Joy Lidu Yi (Florida International Univ.): Liturgical practices in a Dhāranī Sūtra and the protection of royals in medieval China
2:50-3:30 Jimmy Yu (Florida State Univ.): Chan meditative practices of the Southern Song period
3:30-4:00 coffee break
4:00-4:40 Morten Schlütter (Univ. of Iowa): Evolution of meditation in the Platform sutras
4:50-5:30 Final Discussion
Organized by Dr. Paul Kroll, University of Colorado Boulder
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Organized by Dr. William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin Madison and Series Editor
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Organized by Dr. William Nienhauser, University of Wisconsin Madison and Series Editor
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Friday, November 11, 2016 (Eide Library):
Opening Remarks:
Anna M. Shields, President, T’ang Studies Society
Nicholas Williams, Editor, Tang Studies
Panel One: New Perspectives on Tang Dynasty Political History
Panel Chair: Anthony DeBlasi, University at Albany
Panel Two: Tales, “Notes,” and Anecdotes: Prose in the Tang
Panel Chair: Sarah Allen, Wellesley College
Panel Three: Tang in the World
Panel Chair: Michael Drompp, Rhodes College
Panel Four: Ritual Environments of the Tang Dynasty: Text through Context
Panel Co-Chairs: Amy McNair, University of Kansas; Tracy Miller, Vanderbilt University
Saturday, November 12, 2016 (Eide Library)
Panel Five: Doing Things with Things: Religious Objects of the Period of Division, Sui, and Tang
Panel Chair: Wendi Adamek, University of Calgary
Panel Seven: Social History of the Tang
Panel Chair: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley
Lunch Presentation:
“The Chinese Biographical Database (CBDB) Project and Tang Studies”
Xin Wen, Harvard University
Panel Six: New Approaches to Tang Poetry
Panel Chair: Christopher Nugent, Williams College
Panel Eight: Influences of Religion on Tang State and Regional Identity
Panel Chair: James Robson, Harvard University
Round-Table: Reflections on Past Paths and Future Directions in the Study of the Tang and the Role of the Tang Studies Journal
