Program
4 July 2013
13.00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
I Greek and Roman Culture in China |
13.30 Almut-Barbara Renger (Freie Universität Berlin) Introduction |
13.45 Bernhard Kytzler (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Teaching Classics in China in the Late Twentieth Century |
14.30 Discussion |
II Classical Scholarship and Translations |
15.00 Zhi Zhang (Xiamen University) Lukianos in China |
15.30 Lihua Zhang (Peking University) Toward a New Mode of Vernacular Chinese: A Study on Zhou Zuoren’s Modern Translation of Theocritus’ Idyll X |
16.00 Xin Fan (Freie Universität Berlin) Imagining Classical Antiquity as a Global Concept?: The Debate on the Periodization in the Ancient World in Twentieth-Century China |
16.30 Discussion |
17.15 Coffee break
III Ancient Contact Between East and West 1 | IV Ancient Contact Between East and West 2 |
17.45 Jingling Chen (Harvard University) Socrates Visits Beijing: Intellectual Thoughts on the Eve of 1949 |
17.45 Shuai Luo (Peking University) The Begram Treasure and the Roman Commercial Expansion |
18.15 Krisztina Hoppál (Eötvös Loránd University) Chinese Perceptions of the Roman Empire: A Mysterious Country in the Westernmost Part of the World |
18.15 Daniel Sarefield (Fitchburg State University) “If I return to Scythia a better man than I left”: Anacharsis the Wise Barbarian |
18.45 Discussion | 18.45 Discussion |
V Reception |
19.30 Yan P. Lin (Francis International Inc.) Liberty and Equality - Key Greek Values in Relation to Ancient China |
5 July 2013
10.30 Welcome Coffee
VI The Reception of Classical Languages and Legends in the History of Japan | VII Greek Myth in Japanese Popular Culture |
11.00 Ichiro Taida (I-Shou University) The Earliest History of the Reception of Classical Languages in Japan |
11.00 Luciana Cardi (Osaka University) The Function of Greek Myths in Contemporary Japanese Literature |
11.30 Jerzy Nowak Wojciech (Adam Mickiewicz University) Jesuits’ Linguistic Efforts on Creating Catholic Vocabulary in Japan - the Case of Japanese Hidden Christians |
11.30 Carla Scilabra (University of Torino) Back to the Future: Reviving Classical Figures in Japanese Comics |
12.00 Timon Screech (SOAS, University of London) The Legend of Zeuxis and Japanese Painting |
12.00 Jen Cresswell (University of Edinburgh) Greco-Roman Iconography and Architecture in Anime and Manga |
12.30 Discussion | 12.30 Discussion |
13.15 Lunch
VIII Greek and Roman Themes in Asian Material Culture | IX Sculpture in East and West |
14.45 Cynthea J. Bogel (Kyushu University) Grapes, Gods, and Men: Greco-Roman and Asian Motifs on an Eight-Century Japanese Buddha Pedestal |
14.45 Lukas Nickel (SOAS, University of London) China and the Hellenistic World - Sculpture as Evidence for Cross-Asian Contacts During 3rd Century BC |
15.15 Chia-Lin Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Politics, Culture and Neo-Classical Architecture in Taiwan |
15.15 Rui Nakamura (Tokyo University of the Arts) The Reception of Parthenon Sculpture in Modern Japanese Art School |
15.45 Discussion | 15.45 Discussion |
16.30 Coffee break
X Translation as Reception | XI Staging Ancient Greek Drama in East Asian Theatre |
17.00 Bill M. Mak (University of Hong Kong) The Book of Four Gates 四門經 and Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos |
17.00 Tianshu Yu (Peking University) and Haiying Liu (China Agricultural University) On Queen Hudijin: A Medea-like Chinese Woman in Guo Moruo’s Historical Play The Peacock’s Gallbladder |
17.30 Jinyu Liu (DePauw University) Translation as Reception, Reception as Argument: Western Antiquity in China in the 1920s-1930s |
17.30 Kuan-wu Lin (Freie Universität Berlin) The Revival of Greek Tragedies by Fusions with Eastern Theatre Traditions |
18.00 Discussion | 18.00 Discussion |
XII Round Table & Closing Remarks: Greco-Roman Antiquity in Chinese Discourse on Modernity | |
Axel Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Xin Fan (Freie Universität Berlin) Almut-Barbara Renger (Freie Universität Berlin) et al. |
20.00 Social Dinner
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