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

Talks:

Tuesday 29 April 2025

The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Ross Moncrieff