Wednesday, June 5, 2019
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room
The Art and Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Workshop in Honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen
June 5, 2019, YRL Main Conference Room, UCLA
9:00-9:50 Group I: Chair and Discussant Jack Davey, George Washington University
9:00-9:15 Bryan Miller, University of Oxford: Accompaniment and Consumption: Animals in Mortuary Realms of the Xiongnu
9:15-9:30 Katherine Brunson, Brown University: The Social Zooarchaeology of Oracle Bone Divination in Northwest China
9:30-9:50 Comments and Discussion
9:50-10:40 Group II: Chair and Discussant: Sonya Lee, USC
9:50-10:05 Anke Hein, University of Oxford: Raw Material Hoards, Ritual Deposits, or Disturbed Burials: Object Pits in the Mountains of Southwest China (presentation in absentia)
10:05-10:20 Richard Ehrich, UCLA: The Sacrificial Pits at Sanxingdui: Unique Phenomena or Representatives of an Established Ritual Tradition?
10:20-10:40 Comments and Discussion
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:50 Group III: Chair and Discussant: Willeke Wendrich, UCLA
11:00-11:15 Li Min, UCLA: Liminal Places vs. State Power: Archaeology of Ritual Landscapes in Early China
11:15-11:30 Lin Kuei-chen, Academia Sinica: Archaeology of Community: Changing Settlement Patterns from the Baodun to the Shi’erqiao Periods
11:30-11:50 Comments and Discussion
11:50-12:40 Group IV: Chair and Discussant: Chair and Discussant: Lee Hui-shu, UCLA
11:50-12:05 Ye Wa, UCLA: State Regulations or Human Sentiment: the Disappearance of Funerary Figurines in 9th Century Chang'an and Luoyang
12:05-12:20 Burglind Jungmann, UCLA: Art and Ritual: Some Peculiarities of Commemorative Paintings of the Chosŏn Dynasty
12:20-12:40 Comments and Discussion
13:10-14:20 Group V: Chair and Discussant: Zhang Li, Zhengzhou University
13:10-13:25 Zhang Liangren, Nanjing University: Prehistoric Metallurgy of Eastern Xinjiang
13:25-13:40 Shi Tao, Sichuan University: Organization of early copper mining along the Yangzi River - A discussion of resource strategies in early China
13:40-13:55 Lee Hsiu-ping, UCLA, US: Production Debris in a Bronze Age Industrial Town: Contextualizing White Pottery at Nanwa, Henan (presentation in absentia)
13:55-14:20 Comments and Discussion
14:20-15:30 Group VI: Chair and Discussant: Bryan Miller, University of Oxford
14:20-14-35 Rowan Flad, Harvard University: Long Distance Influences and Local Adoption: Technological Changes in Ritual and Economy in Late Prehistoric China
14:35-14:50 Lai Guolong, University of Florida: Royal Ritual, Cowrie Shells, and the Production of Bronze in Early Western Zhou
14:50-15:05 Wen Chenghao, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IA CASS): Uncovering disguised Social Inequality: an Investigation of the Bronze Age Cemetery at Donghuishan from the Perspective of Ritual Economy
15:05-15:30 Comments and Discussion
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-16:40 Group VII: Chair and Discussant: David Schaberg, UCLA
15:50-16:05 Zhang Hanmo, Renmin Unversity: The Mawangdui T-Shaped Banners and their Ancient Egyptian Counterparts: A Comparison of Pictorial Compositions and Art Motifs
16:05-16:20 Minku Kim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: New Perspectives on Two Kharoṣṭhī-Inscribed Artifacts Discovered in China Proper
16:20-16:40 Comments and Discussion
16:40-17:30 Group VIII: Chair and Discussant: Rhi Juhyuang, Seoul National University
16:40-16:55 Adam D. Smith, University of Pennsylvania: Early Chinese Free-standing Stone Columns and their Owners
16:55-17:10 Ellen Hsieh, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan): Bencharong and Peranakan Porcelains in 19th Century Southeast Asia
17:10-17:30 Comments and Discussion
17:30 Lothar von Falkenhausen, UCLA: Concluding Remarks
The Art and Archaeology of Ritual and Economy in East Asia: Symposium in Honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen
June 6, 2019, YRL Main Conference Room, UCLA
9:00-10:00 Introductory words; Chair: Li Min, UCLA
9:15-9:30 David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA
9:30-9:45 Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaoelogy, UCLA
9:45-10:00 Rowan Flad, Harvard University, US
10:00-10:30 Coffee & Tea
10:30 – 12:00 Scholarly Talks I, Chair: Li Shuicheng, Peking University
10:30-11:00 Kazuo Miyamoto, Kyushu University: Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen and his Chinese Archaeology
11:00-11:30 Yangjin Pak, Chungnam National University: Mortuary Practice of Intentional Breakage of Burial Goods in Ancient Northeast Asia
11:30-12:00 Alain Thote, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: Bronze Vessels and Ceramic Containers: What does their Relationship tell us about Rituals in Bronze Age China?
12:00-12:20 Discussion
13:30-15:00 Scholarly Talks II, Chair: Sonya Lee, USC
13:30-14:00 Enno Giele, University of Heidelberg: Coins as a Measure of Economy in Early China
14:00-14:30 Wang Ming-ke, Academia Sinica: Primordial Community: Concept, Human Ecology and Reality
14:30-15:00 Wu Hung, University of Chicago: The Role of Archaeological Evidence in Historical Research
15:00-15:20 Discussion
15:20-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-17:00 Comments and panel discussion, Chair: Yan Yunxiang, UCLA
Panelists:
· Li Shuicheng, Peking University
· Miao Zhe, Zhejiang University
· Lee Hui-shu, UCLA
· Zhang Li, Zhengzhou University
· Rhi Juhyung, Seoul National University
17:30 Concluding words and video message from Li Ling
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies, Archaeology, East Asian Studies, UCLA School of Humanities, Henry Luce Foundation