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Sociality and sociability across time, space and cultures

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Thursday, April 20, 2023 at West Hall 135

 
4:30–6 p.m.: Pre-conference reception

Friday, April 21, 2023 at West Hall 135

8:30–8:50 a.m.: Commencement
  • Madeline Spring, University of Hawai’i: “Retiring (and re-retiring) among friends, 不亦 樂乎?
9–10:30 a.m.: Panel 1, Crossing borders
  • Chair: Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University)
  • Xurong Kong, Kean University: “Musicking in third tentury China: A study of rhapsodies on Zheng-Zither”
  • Mark Cruse, Arizona State University: “The matter of diplomacy: King Louis IX’s embassy to the Mongols in 1249”
  • William C. Hedberg, Arizona State University: “The Central Asian turn in Japanese literary history”
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Panel 2, Cultivating personhood
  • Chair: Juliann Vitullo, Arizona State University
  • Michael Tueller, Arizona State University: “The voice and mind of the stone: Constructing a social person from ancient inscriptions”
  • Françoise Mirguet, Arizona State University: “At the convergence of food and language: Limiting hegemonic power in the letter of Aristeas”
  • Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University: “The relegated duke and the banished transcendent: A retrospective poetry exchange between Xie Lingyun and Li Bai”
12:45–2 p.m.: Lunch

2–3:30 p.m.: Roundtable, A connection that hails from encounters
  • David Knechtges, University of Washington
  • Hoyt Tillman, Arizona State University 
  • Madeline Spring, University of Hawai’i

Saturday, April 22, 2023 at
the Memorial Union, room 182

8:30–10:30 a.m.: Panel 3, Weaving textual and social network
  • Chair: Joanne Tsao, Arizona State University
  • Stephen H. West, Arizona State University: “Cutting, trimming, sewing: Adaptation of the ci lyric in a 12th century ballad”
  • Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University: “Prabhākaramitra’s legacy and its relationship to his social network in Tang China”
  • Sujane Wu, Smith College: “Friendship in epistolary space: Some reflections on the Tie 帖 (Brief Notes)”
  • Qian Liu, Arizona State University: “In search of the authorship of Xu Xuanguai lu: The social life and political career of Li Guyan and his stories”
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Panel 4, Building communities
  • Chair: Meow Hui Goh, Ohio State University
  • Yue Wu, Arizona State University: “Reactivating the Jian’an: Cultural construction in the eastern Wei and northern Qi”
  • J. Michael Farmer, University of Texas at Dallas: “Curating a community: Chang Qu’s Huayang guo zhi”
  • Wendy Swartz, Rutgers University: “Sociality and ideality in Tao Yuanming’s vision of farm life: Revisiting ‘Peach Blossom Spring’”
12:45–2 p.m.: Lunch

2–4 p.m.: Roundtable, A destiny that leads from Yuma
  • Paul Kroll, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Stephen H. West, Arizona State University
  • Stephen Bokenkamp, Arizona State University
  • Pauline Yu, American Council of Learned Societies