Conferences
WSWG 17
17-18 Sept 2003 / Leiden University
Hosted by Leiden University

This is the first WSWG Conference to be held in Europe, and the fourth to be sponsored by another institution. The Project is grateful to Leiden University for serving as host, and to the University's Research School CNWS (Center for Non-Western Studies) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) for providing generous financial support; also to Professor Barend ter Haar and PhD candidate Paul van Els for their hospitable initiative, and for assistance with the advance arrangements, including detailed Campus Directions for the Conference. Travel Advice for overseas participants was supplied by the Project staff. This page and its satellites are the permanent record of the Conference.

The opening lecture began and ended with Scaliger, the star of the Leiden faculty in the University's earliest years, but between those points it was devoted to revisiting the early work of J J L Duyvendak, the founder of the Sinological Institute at Leiden. From the beginning of the series of WSWG Conferences, Duyvendak was honored by the first evening's banquet. It was a special pleasure to be able to hold a conference, and a banquet, in Duyvendak's own town and ambience.

J J L Duyvendak (28 June 1889 - 9 July 1954)

Program

Wednesday, 17 September 2003

Public Lecture: Philology in an Old Key: Lord Shang Revisited (E Bruce Brooks)

Duyvendak Memorial Banquet

Classics and Commentaries

• The Creation of the Way(s) of Former Kings (Constance Cook)
• Normativity and History in Warring States Thought (Heiner Roetz)
• The Five "Kao" Chapters of the Shu (Kai Vogelsang)
• Where was the Western Zhou Capital? (Maria Khayutina)
• He yi bu shu: Examining the Absent in Early Chinese Texts (Joachim Gentz)
• Disjunctive Ji2 in the Chun/Chyou (A Taeko Brooks)

Thursday, 18 September 2003

Warring States Texts and Techniques

• On Wvn4 "Ask" (Christoph Harbsmeier)
• Heaven in Mwodz (Nicolas Standaert)
• Universality (Jyen) in Mwodz (Jörg Schumacher)
• MZ 39: An Anomaly? (Karen Desmet)
• Dzwo Jwan Digital Index Demo (John Page and Isabel García Hidalgo)

Tea and Cookie Break

Warring States Texts and Interpretations

• New Glimpses of the Early Chinese Postal System (Enno Giele)
• Paradoxes in Some WS Texts (Wim De Reu)
• The Meaning of Qing in the Confucian Texts from Guodian (Attilio Andreini)
• Establishment of the Zhong xin zhi dao as a Text (Dirk Meyer)
• The Thought of the Guodian Ziyi (Pang Chiwing)
• The Rong Cheng Shi Version of the "Nine Provinces" (Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann)

Lunch

Empire and Beyond

• Literacy in the Red River Basin in the Late 03c (Michele Thompson)
• The Junzi Prior to Confucius in the Shiji (Dorothee Schaab-Hanke)
• Dating the Shizi (Carine Defoort)
• The Date of the Proto-Wénzi (Paul van Els)
• The Formation of a Typical Apocryphal Text (Licia DiGiacinto)

Tour: Library of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University

End of Conference

Roster (31)
Attending in Person (28) / Participating in Absentia (3)

Attilio Andreini (Università ca' Foscari, Venice)
B J Mansvelt Beck (Leiden)
Wolfgang Behr (Bochum)
A Taeko Brooks (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
E Bruce Brooks (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Constance Cook (Lehigh)
Carine Defoort (Leuven)
Wim De Reu (Leuven)
Karen Desmet (Leuven)
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS)
Martin Svensson Ekström (Stockholm)
Paul van Els (Leiden)
C J Fraser (Hong Kong)
Isabel García Hidalgo (Colegio de México)
Joachim Gentz (Göttingen)
Licia DiGiacinto (Bochum)
Enno Giele (Münster)
Barend ter Haar (Leiden)
Christoph Harbsmeier (Oslo)
Maria Khayutina (Bochum and Munich)
Karel van der Leeuw (Amsterdam)
Dirk Meyer (Leiden)
John Page (Colegio de México)
Pang Chiwing (Leiden)
Heiner Roetz (Bochum)
Dorothee Schaab-Hanke (Hamburg)
Jörg Schumacher (Geneva)
Christian Schwermann (Bonn)
Nicolas Standaert (Leuven)
Michele Thompson (Southern Connecticut)
Kai Vogelsang (Munich)

The Project is grateful to Barend ter Haar, Paul van Els,
and to CNWS, IIAS, and Leiden University
For their support of this Conference

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