PROGRAM FOR THE GEOMETRIES OF POLITY

Exploring Cosmological Orders Over the History of China and the South Pacific

All Sessions are in the 2nd Floor Conference Room, Brooks Hall

Coffee and Tea will be available for morning and afternoon sessions.

 

8 (Wednesday)

10-11:45

A SYNTHESIS BEFORE THE FACT: Geometries, Ecologies and Histories Across the Indo-Pacific

Preliminary comments for

THE GEOMETRIES OF POLITY

Exploring Cosmological Orders Over the History of China and the South Pacific

Frederick H. Damon

Department of Anthropology

University of Virginia

2-5

MAPPING FUJIAN LANDMARKS

Kenneth Dean

Raffles Professor of Humanities, FASS, NUS

Professor and Head, Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore,

Research Cluster Leader, Religion and Globalisation, Asia Research Institute, NUS

EMBODYING THE HEAVENS: Cosmological Order and Materiality in Polynesia

M. Jordan Love

Academic Curator,

The Fralin Museum of Art & McIntire Department of Art

University of Virginia

 

9 (Thursday)

9:30-11:45

SPATIAL MODELS IN THE YU GONG AND SHANHAIJING: A Review.

Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann

CNRS, France – MPIWG, Germany

Paris

 

PRAYING FOR RAIN: Heaven, Nature, and the People

Cong (Ellen) Zhang

Department of History

University of Virginia

2-5

FROM THE MOUNTAIN TO THE SEA: The Temple Organization of Regional Relations from Southeastern China

Michael Rowlands

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture & Co-Director of Centre for Research in the Dynamics of Civilisation, UCL.

 

QUANZHOU: Territorial cults, Officialdom, Jianghu (rivers-lakes), and Shanlin (mountains-forests)

Wang Mingming

Professor of Anthropology,

Peking University

 

10 (Friday)

 

2-6

THE ROAD GETTING IN ALL UNDER HEAVEN COSMOLOGY: The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in West Yunnan

Jianxiong Ma

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

CONTEMPORARY FUJIAN RITUALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Kenneth Dean

Raffles Professor of Humanities, FASS, NUS

Professor and Head, Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore,

Research Cluster Leader, Religion and Globalisation, Asia Research Institute, NUS

 

WHAT OF MELANESIAN POLITIES? The Trobriand Case

Linus Digim’Rina

The University Of Papua New Guinea.

 

11(Saturday)

10:00-11:45

THE GUANDI CULT IN LHASA: Cosmo-politics at the Qing-Tibetan interface

Fan Zhang 张帆

Department of Sociology, Peking University

2:00-5:00

SACRED SEAS: Histories of Origin and Settlement from Timor-Leste

Susanna Barnes

Faculty Member in Archaeology & Anthropology

University of Saskatchewan

PATTERN, KNOWLEDGE, AND COSMOLOGY: Managing Melanesian and Chinese life-worlds

Graeme Were

University of Bristol