CIRU Distinguished Lecture Series, Spring 2012

March 29, 4:30 p.m.

"Reappearance: History and Memory."

Professor Dai Jinhua, Beijing University/Harvard University

Room 403, Lecture Hall, Alexander Library

169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

 March 1, 4:30 p.m.

“The Yuan (1206-1333) Observatory in Dengfeng, China.”

Professor Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania

Room 403, Lecture Hall, Alexander Library

169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ

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CIRU Distinguished Lecture Series

Confucianism and Environmental Ethics

Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Alexander Library Lecture Hall

CIRU Distinguished Lecture Series

Thinking About Writing Long Stories: Early Developments in the Chinese Novel

Professor Robert E. Hegel, Washington University

Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Alexander Library Lecture Hall

CIRU Distinguished Lecture Series

Centennial Perspectives on China’s 1911 Revolution

Professor Bin Wong, University of California

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Alexander Library Lecture Hall

Distinguished Lecture Series

April 14, 2011
Title: Staring At: Advertising and Narcissism in the Interwar Years
Presenter: Professor Tani Barlow, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Date and time: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:00 AM - Friday, April 15, 2011 9:00 AM.
Place: Room A, B, C, Rutgers Brower Common，145 College Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J.
Open to the Public, All are welcome

Mar 23, 2011
Title: The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra
Presenter: ProfessorRoger Hart, Director of Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University.
Date and time: Wednesday Mar 23, 2011, 4:30pm.
Place: Rutgers Student Center Room 411 A& B,126 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ
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Open to the Public, All are welcome

February 17, 2011
Title: Early Modern Chinese Cities: Catalysts for Historical Change
Presenter: Professor William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University.
Date and time: Time: Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:30 pm.
Place: Room A, B, C, Rutgers Brower Common，145 College Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J.
Open to the Public, All are welcome
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October 21, 2010
Title: Madame White, The Book of Change, and Eileen Chang: On A Poetics of Involution
Presenter: Professor David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University。
Date and time: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:30 p.m.
Place: Room A, B, C, Rutgers Brower Common，145 College Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J.

In the studies of Eileen Chang 張愛玲 (1920-1995) one aspect yet to be explored is her penchant for rewriting existing works in multiple iterations and languages. This lecture addresses Chang’s aesthetics of revision and bilingualism by examining her two English novels, The Fall of the Pagoda and The Book of Change, which were discovered in 2009 and will be published in 2010.
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April 7, 2010
Title: Judge Bao and the Rule of Law
Presenter: Wilt L. Idema, Professor of Harvard University.
Date and time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.
Place:Brower Commons, 2nd Floor, Staff Dining Room, 145 College Avenue, New Brunswick.

Professor Idema's talk will draw on his most recent publication, Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad Stories from the Period 1250-1450 (2009), and focus on the unique perspective that these ballads offer on the development of the lore of the incorruptible Judge Bao.
Flyer: April 7, 2010 Lecture.

March 29, 2010
Title:Understanding Contemporary China: A 60-Year History or 30-Year History?
Presenter: Wang Hui, Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Date and time: Monday ,March 29, 2010 at 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: Graduate Student Lounge, 126 College Avenue

Wang Hui is an intellectual historian at Tsinghua University in Beijing . His research focuses on contemporary Chinese literature and thought.Wang Hui served as the chief editor (together with Huang Ping) of Dushu("Reading"), the most important intellectual magazine in China during that decade.
More infomation can be found at Flyer.
Video clips: V1, V2, V3, V4.

February 18, 2010

Title: "The Buddhist Wheel of Rebirth in China and Elsewhere"
Presenter: Professor. Stephen F. Teiser
Date and time: Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 4:30 p.m.
Place: Brower Commons, Staff Dining Room, 145 College Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J.

Stephen F. Teiser (Ph.D., Princeton University) is D. T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He specializes in the study of Buddhism and Chinese religions. His latest book, co-edited with Jacqueline I. Stone, is Readings of the Lotus Sūtra, published by Columbia University Press (2009). His current research focuses on Chinese Buddhist practice and medieval liturgical manuscripts.
Flyer: English version / Chinese version
Newsletter: Please click here.
Video: V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6, V7, V8, V9, V10, V11


October 21, 2009

Title: "Becoming Alternative? Modern Transformations of Chinese Medicine in China and in the United States"
Presenter: Professor. Charlotte Furth
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Place: Graduate Student Lounge, Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue, New Brunswick , N.J.

Professor Charlotte Furth is a leading historian of imperial China and the field of gender studies, whose scholarship and academic activities have exerted lasting impact on Chinese intellectual history, medical and gender history since the 1970s. Retired from the University of Southern California , she remains active in the field.

October 6, 2009

Distinguished Lecture Series
Title: Picturing the Life of Confucius: Relating Content to Context
Presenter: Professor. Julia Murray, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Place: Graduate Student Lounge, Rutgers Student Center, 126 College Avenue

Professor Julia Murray (Ph.D. Princeton) is professor in the departments of Art History, East Asian Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Earlier in her career, she held several research and curatorial positions in art museums with major East Asian collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Freer Gallery, and the Harvard University Museum.

Professor Murray is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several monographs and exhibition catalogs including Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology (2007), Ma Hezhi and the Illustrations of the Book of Odes (1993), and Last of Mandarins: Chinese Calligraphy and Painting from the F.Y. Collection (1987). She is currently working on a book on the history and significance of Kongzhai, a former shrine to Confucius near Shanghai, and is preparing a scholarly exhibition on Confucius's life, teachings, and posthumous veneration to be shown at the China Institute Gallery in New York City in the first of 2010.


May 2009

Title: East Asian Confucianisms: Interactions and Innovations
Presenter: International Conference
Date and Time: Friday & Saturday, May 1 & 2, 2009
Place: University Inn and Conference Center, Douglass Campus

April 2009

Title: China Studies in 2049
Presenter: Prof. Pauline Yu, President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Place: Alexander Library Scholarly Communication Center (SCC), College Avenue

Title: The Task of the Chinese Literature Scholar: Reading Wang Wei's "Wang Stream Collection"
Presenter: Prof. Stephen Owen, Harvard University
Date and Time: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Place: Rm. 411, Rutgers Student Center, College Avenue

March 2009

Title: Literal and Literary: Language and the Representation of Chinese Culture
Presenter: Prof. Eugene Eoyang , Indiana University
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Place: Rm. 411, Rutgers Student Center, College Avenue
Newsletter: Coming soon .

February 2009

Title: Why was Mr. Science called "Kexue" in Chinese
Presenter: Prof. Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton University
Date and Time: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Place: Alexander Library Scholarly Communication Center (SCC), College Avenue
Newsletter: English version / Chinese version .

December 2008

Title: An Ancient Art of Beijing Opera
Presenter: Mr. Ghaffar Purazar and his colleague
Date and Time: 2:45 pm Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008
Place: Room 106 Scott Hall
Newsletter: English version / Chinese version .

June 2008

Title: Mawangdui Calligraphy and Chinese Culture
Date and Time: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Newsletter: Chinese version .

May 2008

Title: Beijing and the Olympics 2008: Social, Economic, Cultural, and Urban Transformations in the 21st Century
Date and Time: Thursday, May 1, 2008
Newsletter: English version / Chinese version