New Directions in Manchu Studies
May 5-8th, 2016 | University of Michigan
Thursday, May 5
Welcome dinner at Sava’s, 216 S State Street, 7 pm
Friday May 6th
- Opening Address: 9 AM, (Cassel, Kicengge)
- Morning Panel: 10AM - 12PM, Chair: Pär Cassel
- Schluessel: “Emperor as Prophet: the Moral Exhortations to the People in Chaghatay
- Levey, “The Return of the Jungars: Reconsidering the Flight of the Torghut.”
- Afinogenov, “The Rectification of Names: Russia and “China” in the High Qing”
- Lunch Break, 12PM - 12:45PM
- Afternoon Panel I : 12:45PM - 2:45PM, Chair: Benjamin Levey
- Borjigidai Oyunbilig, ”The process of incorporating submitted Khalkha into banners by Qing court in the beginning of Kangxi reign — centered on Lifanyuan Manchu documents”
- O. Oyunjargal, “Mongolian Society under Qing rule and the Climate Change”
- Oidtmann, "Amdowas Speaking in Code"
- Afternoon Panel II: 3:00PM - 5:00PM (Chair: TBA)
- Söderblom Saarela, ”Louis-Mathieu Langlès and the Manchu moveable type”
- Porter, ”Manchu Language Education in the Hanjun Banners”
- Kicengge, "Chance Meetings Between Manchu and Siberian Maps"
- Dinner at Eve, 300 S. Thayer St., 5:30 PM
Saturday May 7th
- Keynote Address, 9AM:
- Mark Elliott, “ Manchu Studies Comes of Age: A Review of the Field”
- Morning Panel, 10AM - 12PM, Chair: Carla Nappi
- Wadley, “The Yargiyan kooli, how yargiyan is it?”
- Fitzgerald: ”Kooli and the Making of the Manchu State”
- He Bian, “On Scarred Bodies and the Old Manchu Archive”
- Jianfei Jia, "Horse Theft and Legal Applications in Qing Xinjiang During the Qianlong Reign"
- Lunch Break: 12PM - 1PM
- Afternoon Panel I: 1PM - 3PM, Chair: Devin Fitzgerald
- Kim, “ Stepping Stones: Career Trajectories of Qing Heilongjiang Generals”
- Tawney, “ Bigger than Jakdan: 61 Unstudied Manchu Poems”
- Carla Nappi, “A Song Sung Drunkenly: Jakdan and The Poetry of Translation”
- Afternoon Panel II: 3:30PM - 5:30 PM, Chair: Pär Cassel
- Matthew Mosca, “Origins of the Hafu Buleku Bithe”
- Chris Atwood, “Looking for Words in All the Wrong Places: Using Cross-Dynastic Sources to Shed Light on the Vocabulary of the First Inner Asian Exchange”
- Peter Perdue: ”Tulisen in Five Languages”
- Dinner at Aventura, 216 E. Washington Street, 6:30PM
Sunday May 8th
- Brunch at 10AM ? TBA
