The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSAT) at Renmin University of China is dedicated to the study of ancient textuality in a global context. Since its founding in 2017, ICSAT has held annual international conferences, workshops, and seminars on various topics. During the Spring semester of 2021, due to COVID-19, these activities will be replaced by a sequence of four lecture series—each of eight individual lectures—on the textual culture of early China. The four distinguished speakers will present their latest research together with introductions to Sinological scholarship.

March:

Prof. Yuri Pines 尤锐 (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem):

Zuozhuan (Zuo Tradition)

April:

Prof. Dirk Meyer 麦笛 (University of Oxford):

Shangshu (Classic of Documents) and Shu traditions

May:

Prof. Paul R. Goldin 金鹏程 (University of Pennsylvania):

Warring States philosophical texts

June:

Prof. Martin Kern 柯马丁 (Princeton University and Director of ICSAT):

Chuci (The Lyrics of Chu)

    For details and registration of Prof. Pines' lectures, please click here;

For questions, please write to: ruc_icsat@163.com.