Comparing Ancient Worlds: Greece and China
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Thurs, 24th January
Needham Research Institute
12:30 - 13:20
Lunch and registration
13:20 - 13:30
Welcome remarks: Geoffrey Lloyd
13:30 - 14.45
Walter Scheidel: “Comparing Comparisons”
14.45 - 15.00
Coffee break
15.00 - 16.15
Michael Nylan: “On Libraries and Manuscript Culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria”
17.00 - 18.00
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road
Nathan Sivin: “Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others”
Public talk at CRASSH, open to all
Fri, 25th January
Needham Research Institute
9.30 - 10.45
Jeremy Tanner: “Portraits and Politics in Classical Greece and Early Imperial China”
10.45 - 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 - 12.15
Ian Johnston: “The School of Names and the Later Mohists: Their Relevance in Early Chinese Philosophy and Comparisons to Contemporary Greek Thought”
12.30 - 13.30
Lunch
13.30 - 15.00
Richard King: “Freedom in Zhuangzi and some Stoics”
15.00 - 15.15
Coffee break
15.15 - 16.30
Lisa Raphals: “Scales of Nature in Zhuangzi and Aristotle”
18.00 - 19.30
Drinks Reception hosted by Cambridge University Press
Sat, 26th January
Needham Research Institute
9.30 - 10.45
Shigehisa Kuriyama: “Medicine and the Mystery of Presence”
10.45 - 11.00
Coffee break
11.00 - 12.15
Vivienne Lo and Eleanor Re'em: “Recipes for Love in the Ancient Worlds?”
12.30 - 13.30
Lunch
13.45 - 15.00
Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
15.00 - 15.15
Coffee break
15.15 - 16.30
Heinrich von Staden: “Fundamental Issues in the Historiography of Ancient Science"
17.30 - 18.30
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road
Christopher Cullen: "Some Comparative Experiences"
Public Talk at CRASSH, open to all
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