Enzheng Tong Memorial Lectures
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| DATE | LECTURER | TITLE AND AFFILIATION | LECTURE TITLE | |
| 1 | 10-Apr-03 | Robert E. Murowchick | Director, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, Boston University | "New Journey to the West: Anticipating Chinese Archaeology in the 21st Century" |
| 2 | 4-Nov-04 | Heather A. Peters, Ph.D | Consultant, Culture Unit, UNESCO, Bangkok, Thailand | “World Heritage in China: Mapping Preservation or Blueprinting Destruction?: World Heritage in China” |
| 3 | 11-Oct-05 | Magnus Fiskesjo | Cornell University | "The Unexpected Past: Modern Chinese Nationalism and the Challenge of Prehistory" |
| 4 | 2-Nov-06 | Robert Bagley, | Princeton University | "An Underground Palace in Ancient China: The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (d. 433 BC)" |
| 5 | 29-Nov-07 | Jay Xu | Pritzker Chairman, Department of Asian and Ancient Art, The Art Institute of Chicago | "Problems and Approaches in Studying the Sanxingdui Civilization" |
| 6 | 23-Oct-08 | Lothar Von Falkenhausen | Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, Associate Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at University of California, Los Angeles | "New Perspectives on the Bronze Age Of Sichuan" |
| 7 | 8-Apr-10 | Gideon Shelach | Chair, Department of East Asian Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem | "On Memory and Objects" |
| 8 | 23-Sep-10 | Rowan Flad | Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University | "Oracle Bones in Southwest China: Local Developments of a Ritual Tradition" |
| 9 | 23-Feb-12 | Anne Underhill | Professor, Anthropology Department, Yale University | "Alternative Models for Social Organization during the Longshan Period of China" |
| 10 | 5-Apr-13 | Nathaniel Isaacson | Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature, North Carolina State University | "Media and Messages: Blurred Visions of Nation and Science in Enzheng Tong’s 'Death Ray on Coral Island’” |
| 11 | 27-Mar-14 | Xiaobing Max Tang | Helmut F. Stern Professor in Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan | "Modernity on Display: The Art and Politics of Art Exhibitions in Early Twentieth-Century China" |
| 12 | 19-Nov-14 | Katherine Tsiang | Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago | "New Perspectives on Time and Space in the Buddhist Cave Temples at Xiangtangshan" |
| 13 | 11-Feb-16 | Nancy Steinhardt | Professor of East Asian Art, Curator of Chinese Art, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania | Liao Architecture and Archaeology in 2015 |
| 14 | 23-Feb-17 | Feng Li | Professor of Early Chinese History and Archaeology, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University | Megasite Survery: Columbia's First Archaeological Project in China, 2007-2010 |
| 15 | 26-Apr-18 | Eugene Wang | Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University | Was the Terracotta Army There to Guard the First Emperor's Tomb? |
| 16 | 18-Apr-19 | Mingwei Song |
Professor of Chinese, Wellesley College |
From Enzheng to Han Song: Archaeology & Futurology in Chinese Science Fiction |
| 17 |
27-Feb-20 |
Tongli Qu | Peking University | The Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives |
| 18 |
3-Mar-22 |
Shu-li Wang | Harvard Yenching Institute, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica | In Search of China's National Ancestor(s)-Between Histriography, Archaeology and Popular Memory |
| 19 |
27-Oct-22 |
Jiajing Wang | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College | Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves? A New Approach to the Origin of Rice Farming in China |
| 20 |
2-Nov-24 |
Melinda Yang | Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond | Using ancient DNA to study human history in East Asia: perspectives from the Tibetan Plateau |