Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia - Oxford Talks

Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

A forum for all forms of history related to pre-modern East Asia, including both individual countries and East Asia as a whole.

Venue: Ho Tim Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre (HT25)

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford) , Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford) , Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford) , Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford)
Timing: 5pm on Tuesdays

Tuesday 11 March 2025

14:00 - Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
Please note the change of time and venue from other talks and as advertised on posters
Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

17:00 - The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

17:00 - Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)

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Editor: Ross Moncrieff

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