Friday, May 16, 4:00-6:00 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Seminar on Chinese Religions
“Cults of Immortals: Communal Religion in Late Han and the Emergence of Daoism”
Gil Raz, Assistant Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College
CGIS Building South, Room 153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Saturday, Sunday, 17-18 May 2008 
Funded by Asia Center's and Fairbank Center's Vietnam Studies Funds
Saturday May 17, and Sunday May 18, 2008
“Telling Lives in Vietnam”
CGIS S-050

Saturday, May 17
9:00 am: Opening Address
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Harvard University

10:00 am PANEL 1
“Mac Dang Dung as Seen by Vietnamese and Chinese Historians”
Nguyen Nam, Harvard University
“Nguyen Hue in Nguyen Historiography”
Nguyen Quoc Vinh, Harvard Unviersity
“Phan Chu Trinh’s Life as Seen by Northern and Southern Scholars at Different Time Periods”
Sophie Quinn-Judge, Temple University

12:00 Lunch

1:00 pm PANEL 2
“On Writing the Life of Ky Dong”
Lorraine Paterson, Cornell
“On Hoang Ke Viem”
Bradley Davis, Univesrsity of Washington

2:30 pm Coffee Break

3:00 pm PANEL 3
“Philippe Binh, Catholic Memoirist”
George Dutton, UCLA
“On Catholics’ Self-Representations”
Tran Tuyet Nhung, University of Toronto
“Life Modeling: the Cao Dai dignitary Do Van Ly narrates His Life”
Janet Hoskins, USC

Sunday, May 18, 2008
9:00 am PANEL 4
“Writing the Life of Vu Trong Phung”
Peter Zinoman, UC-Berkeley
“Reading the Diaries of Dang Thuy Tram & Le Van”
Truong Huyen, Chi, Hanoi
“The Death and Life of Nguyen thi Nam, Land Reform’s First Victim”
Ken MacLean, Clark University

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm PANEL 5
“Living with Agent Orange”
Diane Fox, Holy Cross
“Adoption Narratives”
Ann Marie Leshkowich, Holy Cross

2:30 pm Coffee Break
3:00 pm Wrap-Up Session

Monday, May 19, 5:00 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
New England China Seminar
“An Economist’s View of China’s Political Reform”
Gary Jefferson, Professor of Economics, Brandeis University
“A Comparison of Resilient Authoritarianism in China and Russia”
Martin Dimitrov, Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
5:00 pm   First speaker and discussion
6:30 pm   Reception
7:30 pm   Second speaker and discussion
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153

Tuesday, May 20, 12:15 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
China Lunchtime Seminar
“A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution” (English subtitles)
Xu Xing, film writer and director
Viewing and discussion of Xu Xing’s documentary film
CGIS Building South, Room 050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Tuesday May 20, 3:00-5:00 pm (refreshments at 2:45 pm)
The Higher Education Program and the International Higher Education Group
“Panel on International student mobility”
Panelists will discuss:current trends and issues  in the U.S. and around the world;  overview of major receiving and sending countries; push pull factors for students to study abroad; benefits and consequences; India and China as both sending and destination countries;
study abroad in the U.S. context
Note: Seating is limited and RSVP is required.  Please send RSVP to:  feredema@post.harvard.edu
Elliot Lyman in Longfellow  Building, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Wednesday, May 21, 4:00 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
China Study Seminar
“My Search to Understand Deng Xiaoping”
Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University
(Working language will be Chinese)
CGIS Building South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Thursday, May 22, 4:00-5:30 pm
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations "The Social Life of Firearms in Early Modern Japan"
David Howell, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Faculty Chair: Shigehisa Kuriyama,  Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Harvard University
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.

Thursday, May 22, 4:00-6:00 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
20th Century China Seminar
“Philosophy and ‘The Economic’ in 1930s China and the World”
Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History; Director, Undergraduate Studies, New York University
Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.,Cambridge

Friday, May 23, 12:15 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies special presentation co-sponsored by the China Humanities Seminar and the Reischauer Institute
"Japan-American Rivalry in Early Republic China: Naito Konan's Shinaron (1914) and Shin Shinaron (1924)"
Tao Demin, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University and Director, Institute for Cultural Interaction Studies, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Seminar Room S153, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.

Saturday, May 24, 9:00 am
Sponsored by the Rockefeller Fund and the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
“Chinese Zoomorphic Imagination Workshop”
http://isites.harvard.edu:80/k34701
Plimpton Room 133, Barker Center for the Humanities

8:30-9:00 am Coffee
9:00 am: Opening Remarks, Eugene Wang, Harvard University, Alan Chong, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Session 1:  9:10-10:20 am
CHAIR: Michael Puett, Harvard University
“Interpreting the Taotie Motif and Its Development”
Sarah Allan, Dartmouth College
“Zoomorphism and Sacrificial Religion in Early China”
Roel Sterckx, Cambridge University
Discussion/Coffee Break

Session 2: 10:40-12:00 pm
CHAIR: Rowan Flad, Harvard University
“What Do Beasts Do in Tombs? Images of Animals and Animus in Mawangdui Burials”
Eugene Wang, Harvard University
“Labeling the Creatures:  Some Problems in Han and Six Dynasties Iconography”
Susan Bush, Harvard University
Discussion

Lunch, Thompson Room

Session 3: 1:00-2:40 pm
CHAIR: Eugene Wang, Harvard University
“The Animal Cycle”
Judy Ho, University of California, Irvine
“Rainmakers: Dragons and their Painters in Song China”
Jenny Purtle, University of Toronto
“The Hound and His Prey in Sou Shan Tu Paintings: Animals in Symbolic Cosmic Battle”
Carma Hinton, George Mason University
Discussion/Coffee Break

Session 4: 3:00-4:10 pm
CHAIR: Yukio Lippit, Harvard University
“Animal in Chinese Rebus Paintings”
Qianshen Bai, Boston University
“The Political Animal: Metaphoric Rebellion in Zhao Yong's Painting of Heavenly Horses”
Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University
Discussion/Coffee Break

Session 5: 4:30-6:00 pm
CHAIR: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University
“Pictorials of Strange Animals: Woodblock Prints in Ming China”
Yuming He, University of Chicago
“Sea Rhinoceroses, Dragons, and Angel Sharks!:  Western Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the "Manual of Sea Oddities"”
Dan Greenberg, National Taiwan University
Discussion

Closing Remarks, Yukio Lippit, Harvard University
Reception