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T’ang
Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years
An International Conference to
Celebrate the 25th
Anniversary of the T’ang Studies
Society
University at Albany
Albany, New York
May 8–9, 2009
The T’ang Studies Society held an international conference, co-sponsored by the Society and University at Albany, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the society.
The conference took place on the
University at Albany campus in Albany, NY, on May 8 and 9, 2009.
Conference Program:
The
goal of the conference was to assess the current state of T‘ang studies
and to encourage new avenues of research and collaboration among
scholars of medieval China. Response to the call for
proposals was
enthusiastic, and the selection of papers for presentation was based
both on the quality of the individual proposals and on the need to
create panels of papers on related topics that fit with the themes of
the conference. The schedule of papers was:
Panel One
- Jonathan
Skaff, “Sui-Tang Diplomatic Protocol as Eurasian Ritual”
- David
L. McMullen, “Disorder in the ranks: Tang court assemblies and
fault-lines in the Tang governmental structure”
- Norman
Harry Rothschild, “Cakravartin, Ceremony and Conflagration: Wu Zhao and
the Pançavarsika of 694”
- Michael
R. Drompp, “(Re-)Packaging the Past: Assessing the Huichang Era”
Panel Two
- Patricia
Karetzky, “Tang Metropolitan Style in Religious Art”
- Michelle
C. Wang, “Of Dhāraṇīs and Maṇḍalas: Mogao Cave 14 and
Esoteric Buddhist Art of the Tang Dynasty”
- Suzanne
Cahill, “Material Reflections of Identity and Hierarchy: The
Essays on Vehicles and Clothing in the Official Histories of the Tang
Dynasty”
Panel Three
- Mark
Halperin, “Transcendents for the Rest of Us: The Divine and
Prosaic in the Shenxian ganyu zhuan”
- Jinhua
Jia, “Du Guangting and the Hagiographies of Tang Daoist Priestesses”
- Sungwu
Cho, “Funerary Ritual of Medieval Daoist Priests”
- Mario
Poceski, “Hagiographic Representation and Historical Reimagining of
Tang Chan”
Panel Four
- Beverly
Bossler, “Entertaining the Elite: Courtesans and their
Patrons from the Eighth to Tenth Centuries”
- YAO
Ping, “From “Merry Making” to “Great Bliss”: Sexuality in Tang China”
- WANGLING
Jinghua, “The Shaping of Du Mu's Fengliu Poetic Personality”
Panel Five
- Paul
W. Kroll, “On the Study of Tang Literature”
- James
M. Hargett, “The Record (Ji 記) Form and its Role in the Development of
Prose Travel Literature during the Tang”
- Luo
Manling, “Imagining the Kaiyuan and Tianbao: The Construction
of Mosaic Memory in the Post-
Rebellion Anecdotes”
- Charles
Hartman, “Du Fu in the Poetry Standards (Shige 詩格) and the Origins of
the Earliest Du Fu Commentary”
Panel Six
- Jack
W. Chen, “Social Networks, Ghosts, and the Question of Anyi Ward”
- Oliver
Moore, “Flows of Time between Tang City and Province”
- Linda
Rui Feng, “Crimes and Criminality in Tang Chang’an”
Panel Seven
- Alexei
Ditter, “The Auto-Inscribed Life: Self-authored Muzhiming in
the Mid- to Late-Tang”
- Ian
Chapman, “One Foot out of the Grave: Inscribing Holy Lives in Tang
China”
- Chen
Huaiyu, “Tradition and Transformation: An Overview of Recent
Chinese and Japanese Scholarship on Tang Epigraphical Materials”
- Jessey
J. C. Choo, “A Life Inscribed—The Ritualization of Life and Death in
Tang Muzhi”
Round-Table: Tang
Studies in the Next 25 Years
- Patricia
Ebrey
- Eugene
Wang
- Graham
Sanders
For a complete text of the
program, click TSSProgram.pdf.
(323 KB)
Conference Registration:
The Department of East Asian
Studies at the University at Albany arranged the registration of
participants and special guests. All other attendees had to register for the conference by April 3, 2009.
There was a complimentary reception for all participants Friday
evening and a banquet, with a separate fee, on Saturday
evening. Because of budgetary constraints in a difficult
economic climate, attendees who were neither presenters nor special
guests paid
a conference fee and, optionally, a banquet fee as listed below.
- Conference
Fee (regular): $90
- Conference
Fee (graduate student) $35
- Banquet
Fee (optional): $40
Hotel Reservations:
A block of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn Albany/SUNY Area was reserved at a special conference rate for those attending the conference. The Department of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany made reservations and paid for the hotel accommodations of participants and special guests. All other attendees made their own arrangements. Note that the hotel set aside a limited number of discounted rooms for conference attendees. Attendees were encouraged to make reservations early to secure that rate.
The hotel is located 5 miles from the Albany airport; transportation
options from the airport can be found at the airport website, www.albanyairport.com
Contact information for the
conference hotel:
Hilton
Garden Inn Albany/SUNY Area
1389 Washington Ave.
Albany, New York
USA 12206
Tel: +1-518-453-1300
Fax: +1-518-453-1301
Contact Us:
Please address inquiries about
the conference to the following address:
You can also contact the chair of
the Organizing Committee:
Professor Anthony DeBlasi
Department of East Asian Studies
Humanities 210
University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
Most recently updated: 02/03/2016