May 15

New Frontiers in the Study of Medieval China Workshop: Lives and Afterlives of Inscriptions

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Friday, May 15, 2026
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West 6051

Two days workshop: May 15 & May 16 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. 

May 04

Book Talk: “The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun” (Ping Wang, University of Washington)

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Monday, May 4, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West 6051
May 02

17th Annual Chinese Late Classical and Medieval Studies Workshop

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Saturday, May 2, 2026
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West 6051

This seminar is open to all faculty and students. Email cx140@scarletmail.rutgers.edu before April 17, 2026, to RSVP.

Mar 27

[The Colloquium on Literary Translation] DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation Roundtable

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Friday, March 27, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Academic Building West 1170
Mar 23

"Posthuman Inhumanity and Death" (Ban Wang, Stanford University)

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Monday, March 23, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Academic Building West 4052

This talk explores critiques of posthumanism in works by Chen Qiufan, Wang Jinkang, and Liu Cixin.

Dec 03

Lecture: "Limpidity of Being: Poetics and the Fashioning of Courtly Self in Early Medieval China" (Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University)

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West Room 5140

This talk considers how limpidity, qing, a key concept in the political culture of early medieval China, was appropriated by elite writers as an aesthetic ideal and an important way of self-fashioning in the last decades of the fifth century.

Nov 06

Wagashi Workshop

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Thursday, November 6, 2025
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Alexander Library, Pane Room

Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring nerikiri, a traditional Japanese confectionery.

Oct 31

The 7th Annual Rutgers-National Taiwan University Workshop on Chinese Studies

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Friday, October 31, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West, Room 6051
Oct 09

Lecture: "C. T. Hsia’s English Essays During His Yale Years" (Ji Jin, Soochow University)

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Thursday, October 9, 2025
5:30 PM
Academic Building West, Room 5140

This lecture examines twenty-four newly uncovered English essays by C. T. Hsia during his Yale years.

Sep 29

Workshop: "Literary Northeast and South China: Geography, Topography, Cartography"

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Monday, September 29, 2025
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building 4052
Sep 18

Lecture: "How Not to Interpret a Text - in Classical China, for example" (Michael Puett, Harvard University)

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Thursday, September 18, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West Room 4052
May 09

Lecture: "The Human Factor: Work as Science in Modern China" (Victor Seow, Harvard University)

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Friday, May 9, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 4052
May 05

Lecture: "Borderland as Literature" (David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University)

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Monday, May 5, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 4052

This lecture seeks to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a geopolitical space, a territorial gateway, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, a “state of exception,” and a venue of imagined non-communities.

Apr 19

16th Annual Chinese Late Classical and Medieval Studies Workshop

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Saturday, April 19, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building (West), Room 6051, Rutgers University
Mar 06

Lecture: Acousmatic Intimacies? A Commute through Leaky Sounds

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Thursday, March 6, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Academic Building W Room 6051