Friday, May 10
9:00 -9:30
INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS
Kenneth Pomeranz
University Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College, The University of Chicago “Why is China so Big”?
9:30-9:45
WELCOME
Erica Brindley
Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University
“Why are We Here? Issues and Goals”
9:45-11:15 PANEL 1 EARLY PERIOD
Nam Kim
Archaeology, University of Wisconsin
“Dynamics of Interaction in Protohistoric Vietnam: Pre-Conquest Relations with the Near and Far North”
Mark Alves
Linguistics, Montgomery College
“Data from Multiple Disciplines Connecting Vietic with the Dong Son Culture”
Martha Ratliff
Linguistics, Wayne State University
“Loanword Evidence for Power Inequities between Hmong-Mien Speakers and their Neighbors”
11:15-11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 12:15 ROUNDTABLE 1
THE CONCEPT OF SEAMZ (SOUTHEAST ASIAN MARITIME ZONE) AS AN INTERACTIVE REGION?
Kathlene Baldanza
History, Penn State University
Hilario de Sousa
Linguistics, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
John Phan
Linguistics, Columbia University
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-4:00 PANEL 2 HAN IMPERIAL PERIOD
Michele Demandt
Archaeology, Jinan University, China
“Imperial Practices or Local Agency? Motives behind the Production of ‘Entangled Crafts’ in Han-period Lingnan”
Joe Pittayaporn
Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
“Chinese Loanwords and Sinicization of Kra-Dai Speakers during the Han Period”
Erica Brindley
History, Penn State University
“An Overview of the Textual Record on Hua-xia/Yue Interactions”
Francis Allard
Archaeology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“The South China Sea from Prehistory to Early Han Imperial Expansion: What Archaeology tells us about the Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas”
4:00-4:30 BREAK
4:30-5:30 ROUNDTABLE 2
ADMINISTRATIVE, IMPERIAL REACH IN THE PREMODERN PERIOD
Hilde De Weerdt
History, Leiden University
Bob Hymes
History, Columbia University
Paul Jakov Smith
History, Havorford College
Saturday, May 11
9:00-11:00 PANEL 3 MEDIEVAL PERIOD, I
Megan Bryson
Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
“The Power of Transmission: Buddhism and Colonialism in the Dali Kingdom”
Andrew Chittick
History, Eckerd College
“Jiankang and the Buddhist Diplomatic World of the South Seas”
Alice Yao
Archaeology, University of Chicago
“Food and Kitchens: Imperial Control and the Colonization of Taste”
John Phan
Linguistics, Columbia University
“Language and Han Colonization in the Red River Plain”
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 12:30 ROUNDTABLE 3
MEDITATIONS ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND COLLABORATION
Francis Allard
Archaeology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Mark Alves
Linguistics, Montgomery College
Tamara Chin
Comparative Literature, Brown University
Michael Puett
History, Harvard University
12:30-2:00 LUNCH available for conference guests in 102 Weaver Building
2:00-3:45 PANEL 4 MEDIEVAL PERIOD, II
Derek Thiam Soon Heng
History, Northern Arizona University
“Cultural and economic influences from China on the Malay Peninsula, 10-14th CE”
James Anderson
History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“Trade Relations between the Đại Việt Kingdom and the Song Empire in the long 12th Century”
Victor Mair
Asian Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania
“Belitung Shipwreck and the Early Development of Tea Cultivation”
3:45-4:15 BREAK
4:15-5:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Pamela Crossley
Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History and Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College
“Was there a Chinese World Order?”
Sunday, May 12
9:00-11:00 PANEL 5 EARLY MODERN PERIOD
John Whitmore
History, University of Michigan
“The Chinese Diaspora into Dai Viet and the Settling of the Lower Delta of the Red River”
Gregory Smits
History, Penn State University
“Pirates of the Ryukyu Islands and their Network Interactions with the Ming”
Hilario De Sousa
Linguistics, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
“On Pinghua and Yue”
Miranda Brown
History, University of Michigan
“After the Mongols, Dairy Products in Southern China, 1500-1700”
11:00-11:30 BREAK
11:30-1:00 WRAP-UP SESSION AND LUNCH
WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?
Francis Allard
Erica Brindley
John Phan
