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Event Details
October 26, 2012
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University of California, Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies
2223 Fulton, 6th Floor

Berkeley, CA 94720
United States

Public Talk - Berkeley, CA

Sources of Shang History: New Discoveries and Advances in Chinese Archaeology and Paleography

Speakers

Roderick B. Campbell, Assistant Professor, East Asian Archaeology and History, New York University; 
Adam Smith, Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University; 
Adam Schwartz, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
 
Panelist/Discussants
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor, Art History; Associate Director, Cotsen Institute, University of California, Los Angeles; 
David Pankenier, Professor, Modern Languages and Literature, Lehigh University
Moderator: Wen-hsin Yeh, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies; Walter and Elise Haas Chair Professor in Asian Studies; 
Richard H. and 
Laurie C. Morrison Chair in History, University of California, Berkeley
 
Featured Speaker and Moderator
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China; Chair, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
 
Featured Introductory Lecture:
 
Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago:
"David Keightley Visits the Shang Ancestral Temple."
 

Session One: Archaeology and Shang Civilization
Moderator: Edward L. Shaughnessy, University of Chicago

Roderick B Campbell, New York University: 
"Wu Ding, Shang and the Central Plains Civilization: New Archaeological Work and its Potential"
Wang Tao, TBA
Discussant: Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA
 
Session Two: Oracle Bones and Shang History
Moderator: Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
 
Adam Schwartz, University of Chicago: 
"Prayer in the Huayuanzhuang oracle bone inscriptions"
 
Adam Smith, Columbia University: 
"Time in the Huayuanzhuang Dongdi oracle bones: reconstructing the scheduling of Shang ritual activity."
 
Discussant: David Pankenier, Lehigh University