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february, 2024
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Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Tracing the Origins and Evolution of the Signature System in Early Imperial
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Early China Seminar Lecture Series
Title: “Tracing the Origins and Evolution of the Signature System in Early Imperial China”
Speaker: Hsinning Liu, Academia Sinica
Time: February 2, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST)
Venue: Faculty House
*Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information.
In Juyan Han manuscripts, distinct handwriting styles for personal names can be discerned within official documents. Through a review of prior research, I will argue that these represent signatures, and at least during the mid-Western Han period (around 50 BCE), the signature system was prevalent across the Empire. Moreover, drawing upon newly excavated manuscripts, it can be grasped that from Western Han, through Eastern Han, to the Three Kingdoms era, the types of official documents requiring signatures continued to increase, and the signers expanded from senior officials to basic-level junior officials, indicating that the use of signatures in administrative culture became more widespread. This presentation aims to demonstrate that it can be attributed to the growing recognition of handwriting’s validity, which became no less significant than that of a seal. Additionally, an observation will be made regarding how the transition of writing materials from wood and bamboo to paper affected the usage of stamps and signatures.
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(Friday) 4:30 am - 6:30 am
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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The Columbia University Seminars on the Ancient Near East (#479) invites you to attend the fourth meeting of our 2023-2024 series: Mike Johnson, Chronicle Heritage,
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The Columbia University Seminars on the Ancient Near East (#479) invites you to attend the fourth meeting of our 2023-2024 series:
Mike Johnson, Chronicle Heritage, CRM February 15, 2024 (Thursday) 5:30 pm-7:30 pm EST
“Building Bulk: Metallurgical Network Dynamics in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean”
You can find an abstract of Mike Johnson’s talk on our website,
https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/the-ancient-near-east/ together with further information on this event and on the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Columbia Seminars on the Ancient Near East series.
The meeting will be held at the Columbia University Faculty House located at 64 Morningside Drive, New York, New York 10027; enter from 116th Street, as there is no entrance from Morningside Dr because the gate is usually closed. We begin gathering at 5:00 PM, and the lecture will start at 5:30 PM in a room indicated by signs in the first-floor lobby. The lecture will be followed by optional dinner with the speaker at 7:00 PM in the Faculty House restaurant. If you wish to make dinner reservations and join us (we will need to report the number of guests), please contact our seminar rapporteurs with your RSVP 10 days prior to the event: Kutay Sen and Jeiran Jahani [ss5879@columbia.edu, jeiran.jahani@columbia.edu], and for those without internet access, a phone call to me will be fine [(718) 817-3854] or at gilbert@fordham.edu. The buffet dinner costs $30, and you must pay the rapporteur with a check made out to Columbia University. We must have your reservation request in advance.
For any questions feel free to get in touch with me at gilbert@fordham.edu. Sincerely,
Allan S. Gilbert and K. Aslıhan Yener
Time
(Thursday) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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The Columbia University Seminars on the Ancient Near East
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Alex McAlvay Remembering resilience: Drawing on traditional agricultural practices to climate-proof our crops Friday, February 16th 5:00 pm 951 EXT
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Alex McAlvay
Remembering resilience: Drawing on traditional agricultural practices to climate-proof our crops
Friday, February 16th
5:00 pm
951 EXT Schermerhorn Hall
Abstract:
Food security depends on the ability of crops to tolerate new environmental stresses. Dr. Alex McAlvay will share his new and ongoing projects in Ethiopia, Canada, and Eurasia related to the investigation and revitalization of traditional practices and crops with potential as climate-smart farming strategies. This work, undertaken from ethnobotanical, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives, often brushes up against archaeology. He will share about his work with archaeologists on First Nations forest gardens in the Pacific Northwest—forests associated with archaeological village sites that humans have enriched for wild edible plant species. He will share his work on the ancient strategy of planting maslins, or mixtures of multiple grain species, which were formerly widespread in Eurasia and northern Africa, and continues to be employed by smallholder farmers in some parts of the world, where it may represent a risk management strategy for climate variability. Finally, he will share his work on the domestication of Brassica species—which flourished under the care of ancient humans who turned them into a panoply of globally important vegetables through breeding.
Time
(Friday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
Columbia University, 951 Schermerhorn Ext.
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23feb11:00 pm- 1:00 pmClassical Dialogues: Richard Neer and Leslie Kurke
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The Classical Studies Graduate Program and the Department of Classics are pleased to announce that Professor Richard Neer (University of Chicago, Art History) and Professor Leslie Kurke (UC Berkeley, Ancient Greek and
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The Classical Studies Graduate Program and the Department of Classics are pleased to announce that Professor Richard Neer (University of Chicago, Art History) and Professor Leslie Kurke (UC Berkeley, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies), co-authors of Pindar, Song and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019), will be on campus to discuss their book on Friday, February 23, at 11am in Room 603 Hamilton Hall.
After an introduction by Professor Ioannis Mylonopoulos (CU Department of Art History and Archaeology), Profs. Neer and Kurke will discuss the book, engage in dialogue with Margaret Corn (CLST) and Brett Stine (Department of Classics), and answer questions from attendees in a seminar-style format.
A short reception will follow the event. We hope that you can join us!
Please also save the date for our next Classical Dialogue this spring:
April 5: Joshua Billings (Princeton, Classics) will discuss The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens (Princeton UP, 2021).
Time
(Friday) 11:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Organizer
Classical Studies Graduate Program