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: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford)
Timing: 5pm on Tuesdays Weeks 6 & 8 and Wednesdays Weeks 4 & 7

Talks:

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

The Disease of Money: Coins, Traders, and Agency in Twelfth-Century East Asia
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Mikael Adolphson (University of Cambridge)
Venue: K B Chen China Centre Library, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Parades and Power in Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Japan: The Daimyo of Satsuma’s visits to a village of captured Korean potters within his domain
Date: 5 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Rebekah Clements (ICREA)
Venue: K B Chen China Centre Library, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Still Chasing the Xiezhai: Mythology and Visual Representations of Justice in Chinese History
Date: 11 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ernest Caldwell (Goldsmiths)
Venue: K B Chen China Centre Library, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Chui-Joe Tham (Linacre College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Ross Moncrieff