Dear Friends of Tang Studies,
I am very happy to alert you to an exciting new dimension of the T’ang Studies Society’s academic work. This year, for the first time, the Society is sponsoring two panels at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Denver. If you plan to attend the conference, I encourage you to put them on your conference schedule.
Friday, March 22, 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Panel 140: Problematizing the Periodization of Tang Poetry
Governor’s Square 15, Plaza Building
Chaired by Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Boulder
“Periodizing Tang Poetry in the Song Dynasty”
Xiaoshan Yang, University of Notre Dame
“Reading Tang Shi Poems as Classical Chinese Poems”
Nicholas M. Williams, University of Hong Kong
“The Making of ‘Tang Poetry’”
Chunxiao Liu, University of Zurich
“Historicizing 'On Historical Themes': Yongshi as a Poetic Category in the Tang”
Su Fu, Princeton University
Discussant:
Anna M. Shields, Princeton University
Saturday, March 23, 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Panel 211: De-Centering Buddhist Kingship
Tower Court D, Tower Building
Chaired by April D. Hughes, Boston University
“Ideal Ruler: The Wheel-Turning King in the Maitreya Buddha Murals at Dunhuang”
April D. Hughes, Boston University
“Mahāmayūrī and Buddhist Statesmanship on the Silk Road”
Michelle C. Wang, Georgetown University
“Recentering Buddhist Kingship: The Scripture for Humane Kings in Dali-Kingdom Images and Texts”
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Discussant:
Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University
All best,
Anna M. Shields