New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China

9:00–9:15 

• Andrea Bréard (FAU Chair of Sinology and Vice President Education)
• Alexei Ditter (Reed College) and Jessey Choo (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
• Michael Höckelmann (FAU State and Society of China) (FAU State and Society of China)

9:15–10:45

Nicolas Tackett (University of California, Berkeley)

"Aristocratic Networks and the Authors and Calligraphers of Funerary Inscriptions"

Timothy Davis (Brigham Young University)

"he Production of Imperially Commissioned Epitaphs: Written for Tang Era Princes and Princesses"

Michael Höckelmann (FAU)

"A Bureaucratic Habit? Institutionalized Commemoration of Eunuchs in the Eighth Century"

11:00–12:00

Li Lan 李瀾 (University of Toronto)

"Portraying the Ideal Buddhist Woman: An Interpretation of the Stūpa Inscription of Lu Weicengyou 盧未曾有"

Amy McNair (University of Kansas)

"Two Tang Inscriptions at Longmen: The Epitaph for An Pu and the Dedicatory Inscription for Lady Wei"

13:30–14:30 

Alexei Ditter (Reed College)

“The Stuff of Memory: Oral and Written Sources of Late Medieval Muzhiming”

Tu Chung-cheng 凃宗呈 (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan)

“The Representation of Death in the Epigraphic Texts: Han Yu as Subject, Han Yu as Author”

15:00–16:00 p.m.

Round table discussion

Paul Kroll (University of Colorado) & Lu Yang 陸揚 (Peking University)

9:15–10:45 

Lance Pursey (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

“Why Kitan language Epitaphs? Lineage, language communities, and cultural memory in the Liao Dynasty”

Emanuela Garatti (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, École Pratique des Hautes Études)

“The Life and the Identity of the Tibetan Lun Boyan (c. 804-855) in China according to his entombed epitaph”

Iiyama Tomoyasu 飯山知保 (Waseda University)

“Visualizing Kinship in Steles: Evolution and Reutilization of Genealogical Steles in Yuan-Ming-Qing North China

11:00–12:00

Meng Guodong 孟國棟 (Wuhan University)

“Cong zongjiao dao qiufen: jisi kongjian de zhuanyi yu mubei de xingqi” 從宗廟到丘墳：祭祀空間的轉移與墓碑的興起

Jessey Choo (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

“The Immortal in a Doomed Tomb: Wu Tong’s Muzhiming and the Quest to Control Rebirth”

Lin Chun-I 林郡儀 (National Taiwan University)

“The Stone Epitaph of Lady Qu in Turfan and Elite Social Networks”

Jeffrey Moser (Brown University)

“The Matriarch on the Margins”

Cong Ellen Zhang (University of Virginia)

“The Women in Han Qi’s Family”

Final Roundtable