Dates: Friday, April 25 and Monday, April 28, 2025
Location: 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley; The Melon Fund; The Eliaser Professorship
Fund; The Tompkins Fund, UC Berkeley
Please contact Maddalena Poli (maddalena.poli@yale.edu) for further questions or concerns.
Introduction
In the last hundred years, China has witnessed an unprecedented number of archeological and unprovenanced artifacts from the last millennium BCE. These documents offer unique a window into the production of writing media, scribal habits, and material cultures. The texts inscribed on these artifacts broaden our understanding of the ancient Chinese intellectual world out of which the canonical tradition was produced.
Reconsidering the History of the Analects and other "Confucius said" Texts in light of Recent Discoveries of Unearthed Manuscripts was organized by Prof. Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Prof. Sarah Allan, and Maddalena Poli (PhD) with the aim of promoting scholarly engagement with this new, exciting evidence.
This conference brings together scholars from Asia, Europe, and the US to discuss the new Warring States manuscripts collecting Confucius’ sayings, their archeological context of recovery, as well as how these new discoveries impact prevailing narratives on the formation of the Analects.
Organizers (in alphabetic order)
Sarah Allan 艾蘭 is Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus, Dartmouth College
Mark Csikszentmihalyi 齊思敏 is Professor and Eliaser Chair of International Studies, UCBerkeley
Maddalena Poli 梅林 is a Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University
Invited Speakers (in alphabetic order)
CHEN Kanli 陳侃理, Peking University
Laetitia Chhiv 周丽慧, CRCAO, France
Scott Cook 顧史考, NUS-Yale Singapore
GUO Jue 郭珏, Bowdoin College
Eric Hutton, The University of Utah
KIM Byung-joon 金秉駿, Seoul National University
Rens Krijgsman 武致知, Tsinghua University
LIU Guozhong 劉國忠, Tsinghua University
Frank Perkins, University of Hawaii
Michael Puett, Harvard University
Sharon Sanderovitch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kai Sum WONG 黃啟深, University of Arizona
XIAO Yunxiao 肖芸曉, Stanford University
XU Zaiguo 徐在國, Anhui University
ZHAO Xiaobin 趙曉斌, Jingzhou Museum
ZHENG Yifan 鄭伊凡, National University of Singapore
Conference Schedule
Friday, April 25th, 4 - 6pm
Welcome remarks by Sarah Allan and Mark Csikszentmihalyi
致辭：艾蘭教授、齊思敏教授
Keynote by GE Zhaoguang 葛兆光 (中文)《重新認識中國古代思想世界
——從半世紀考古新發現的文獻中得知》
New understandings of Ancient Chinese intellectual history, learning from
archeological discoveries of documents in the past half century.
Keynote by Michael Nylan (English)
Sightings of Confucius in the Early Empires
Please note this session is bilingual 第一場以中文、英文進行
Monday April 28th
Academic roundtables, open to the public (English)
9:30 -11:20am Roundtable discussions about the new findings and implications from the perspective of archeology and text history
討論新出土文獻性質、對成書過程的重要性
Panel discussants: Sarah Allan, Scott Cook, GUO Jue, Maddalena Poli
Lunch Break 午餐 (Lunch will be provided for conference presenters only.)
1 - 3:30pm Roundtable discussions about the implications from the perspective of history and thought
討論新出土文獻對研究歷史、思想歷史的重要性
Panel discussants: Mark Csikszentmihaly, Eric Hutton, Frank Perkins, Michael Puett, Sharon Sanderovitch, ZHENG Yifan
3:30-4pm Closing remarks
Please note that the program is subject to change.