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Connecting Europe and Asia, Recasting the Glory: Lecture series of Early Encounters between Europe and Asia

Straddling languages, exploring civilisations, connecting Europe and Asia, focusing on the entire world, let us, across the connectivity of time, space, and culture, join hand-in-hand and recreate the resplendent epic of civilisations of the ancient world.

This lecture series is sponsored by Eurasia Foundation (from Asia). No registration is required. All are welcome to attend each lecture in-person or with the following Zoom meeting details:
In-person venue: Hong Kong Baptist University (For the specific venue, please check in each lecture details)
On-line platform: ZOOM
Link: https://hkbu.zoom.us/j/96903819508?pwd=bFhSTGF0alM0Z0U0YjRTaHYrYnlDZz09
Meeting ID: 969 0381 9508
Password: 973008

Lecture 1: Before the Silk Roads

2023/9/15 │ 16:00–17:30
Professor Edward SHAUGHNESSY
Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
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Lecture 2: Eastern and Western Scholarship on The Book of Songs: Reflections on Translating Chen Zhi’s From Ritualization to Secularization: The Shaping of the Book of Songs into Japanese

2023/9/22 │ 10:30 –12:00
Professor Yoshinobu YUKI
Department of History and Culture, Faculty of Literature, Daito Bunka University
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Lecture 3: The Early Development of Metallurgy in China and Its Connections with the Eurasian Steppe

2023/9/29 │ 10:30–12:00
Professor MEI Jianjun
Director, the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, UK,
Director of Research, Macdonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
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Lecture 4: The Grand Canal and Chinese Culture

2023/10/13 │ 10:30–12:00
Professor XU Xingwu
School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University
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Lecture 5: The Impact of Chinese Characters on the Confucian Way of Recording Culture during the Joseon Dynasty

2023/10/25 │ 16:00–17:30
Professor KANG Youn Ok
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Myongji University
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Lecture 6: Exploration of the Eternal Absolute Truth

2023/11/2 │ 16:00–17:30
Mr Yoji SATO
Chairman of Eurasia Foundation(from Asia)
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Lecture 7: A New Community Beyond the Nation State

2023/11/16 │ 10:00–11:30
Professor CHUNG Joon-Kon
Senior Researcher, Eurasia Foundation (from Asia)
Adjunct Professor, Meiji University
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Lecture 8: East and West; After 3rd Century B.C.

2023/11/17 │16:00–17:30
Professor YOO Il-ho
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance of South Korea
Distinguished Professor, Yonsei University
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Lecture 9: Mothers of Mariners: Mazu and Mary as Patronesses of Sino-European Seafaring in the Early Modern World

2023/12/1 │ 10:30–12:00
Professor Ronnie HSIA
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, The Pennsylvania State University
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Lecture 10: Han Hermeneutics, Victorian Translation, and Transhistorical Meaning: Reading The Book of Odes through James Legge

2023/12/1 │ 15:00–16:30
Dr Nicholas WILLIAMS
Associate Professor of Chinese, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
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Lecture 11: Heroes and Heroism in Ancient China, Greece and Rome

2023/12/08 │ 16:00–17:30

Dr ZHOU Yiqun
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
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Lecture 12: The Guanhua Koine of the Ming as Learned by Missionaries and What it Reveals about the Chinese Lingua Franca in Earlier Times

2023/12/15 │ 16:00–17:30
Professor Richard Van Ness SIMMONS
School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong
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Lecture 13: Societal Conditions and Conditioning Associated with National Building Projects in Ancient Mesopotamia

2024/1/5 │ 16:00–17:30
Dr CHEN Samuel Yi
Associate Professor of Practice (Urban Heritage and Sustainability), Department of History, School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong
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Lecture 14: The School of Shi's Classics of Stars in Han China and Ptolemy in the Graeco-Roman World: With Special Reference to Celestial Observation and Instrument Making

2024/1/12 │ 16:00–17:30
Professor FUNG Kam Wing
Dean and Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
Acting Head, Department of Chinese Literature, Hong Kong Chu Hai College
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Lecture 15: Attitudes about Gossip in Early China and Middle Egyptian

2024/1/19 │ 16:00–17:30
Dr Adam SCHWARTZ
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University
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