9-13 July

Funded by the AHRC and BICC

Series convenor: Dirk Meyer, Oriental Institute & The Queen’s College, University of Oxford (dirk.meyer@orinst.ox.ac.uk); series co-organizer: Joachim Gentz, The University of Edinburgh

Workshop organizer: Dirk Meyer; Assistant: Judith Bruhn (j.v.bruhn@gmail.com) (+44-(0)7821587213)

Specialists attending the workshop ‘Old Chinese Grammar and Syntax’
Christoph Harbsmeier (University of Oslo)
Michael Puett (Harvard University)
Dirk Meyer (University of Oxford)
Joachim Gentz (The University of Edinburgh)

Programme of the workshop Old Chinese Grammar (9-13 July)

Workshop Series Research Training Old Chinese

The workshop series Collaborate Research Training in Old Chinese arose from concerns that the study of Old Chinese, Chinese philosophy and classical Chinese literature are under serious threat in the United Kingdom. Classical Sinology in the UK has become marginalized; its international visibility is limited. Individual institutions in the UK tend to be small and no institution, if operating in isolation, can host the critical mass of experts in the different fields of traditional Sinology. None is therefore fully equipped with the relevant research tools needed to provide substantial training in Old Chinese. The present workshop series for intensive graduate research training aims to address this. Its idea is to connect UK centres for the study of Old Chinese into a nationwide network in order to facilitate specialized research-training in Old Chinese phonology, palaeography, grammar, literature, philosophy, and religion, and to strengthen the international visibility of traditional Sinology in the UK.

An essential element of the series is to open up research areas for graduate students that until recently were little studied in the UK. In all, five research clusters that constitute the basis for a comprehensive study of Old Chinese will be covered in a series of workshops over a period of two years, from January 2009 to September 2010. They are:

1. Philosophy and Religion in Pre-modern China (Edinburgh, 29.01-02.02. 2009)
2. Old Chinese Phonology and Palaeography (Oxford, 25.08-03.09.2009)
3. History and Historiography (Cambridge, 24-28.03.2010)
4. Text and Textuality (Oxford, 24.06-27.06.2010)
5. Art and Archaeology (SOAS, London, 21-24.09.2010)
6. Old Chinese Grammar (Oxford, 9-13.07.2011)

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