PROGRAM
(Note: Subject to further changes and updates.)
Day 1: June 10, 2015
Theatre 303, 3/F, Chong Yuet Ming Amenities Centre,
The University of Hong Kong |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration |
| 09:30 - 09:45 |
Opening Remarks
Peter Mathieson, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong |
| 09:45 - 09:50 |
Group Photo Taking Session |
| 09:50 - 10:50 |
Keynote speech on “From Rome (Daqin 大秦) to China (Zhongguo 中國) – the Xi’an (Nestorian) Monument as a bilingual and transcultural document”
Samuel Lieu, Macquarie University |
| 10:50 - 11:10 |
Tea Break |
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| Panel 1 - Artistic and Scientific |
| Panel Co-Chairs: |
Douglas Kerr, The University of Hong Kong (Morning) |
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Angela Ki Che Leung, The University of Hong Kong (Afternoon) |
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| 11:10 - 12:00 |
Kam Wing Fung, The University of Hong Kong: “The East Syrian Church and the Transmission of Hellenistic-Syrian Astrolabe and Astrological Knowledge in Late Medieval China”
Patrick Taveirne, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: ‘The Study of “Nestorian Bronze Crosses” in the Ordos Region of Inner Mongolia: Status Quaestionis’ |
| 12:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:15 |
Ken Parry, Macquarie University: “Images in the Church of the East: The Textual and Archaeological Evidence in the Light of Contemporary Practice”
Lauren Arnold, University of San Francisco: “Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: Possible Nestorian Symbolism within a Late-Song Scroll”
Chengyong Ge, Cultural Relics Publishing House: “洛陽唐代景教經幢表現的母愛主題 (The Filial Piety towards the mother as a theme of inscription on the Luoyang Stone Pillar)”
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| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Tea Break |
| 15:30 - 15:55 |
Andrea Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Attempting a Breakthrough in Jingjiao Study – Art History as a New Approach to Re-presenting the Configuration of the Yelikewen’s Religious World” |
| 15:55 - 16:25 |
Group Discussion
Chair: Angela Ki Che Leung, The University of Hong Kong
General Discussant: David Wilmshurst, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 19:00 |
Welcome Dinner (by invitation only) |
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Day 2: June 11, 2015
Lecture Theatre 3, Esther Lee Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| Panel 2: Religious Influence |
| Panel Co-Chairs: |
Tobias Brandner, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Morning) |
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Yuen Sang Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Afternoon) |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
Cyril Hovorun, Yale University: “From Byzantium to China”
Glen L. Thompson, Asia Lutheran Seminary, Hong Kong: “Strange Teaching from a Strange Land: Foreignness, Heresy, and Our Understanding of the Jingjiao and Yelikewenjiao” |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
Tea Break |
| 11:05 - 11:55 |
David Wilmshurst, The Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Interfaith Conflict in Yuan China”
Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University: “New Reflections on the Connections between Jingjiao and Chinese Religions in Medieval Period” |
| 11:55 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:15 |
Max Deeg, Cardiff University: “Messiah Rediscovered: Some Philological Notes on the So-called ‘Jesus the Messiah Sutra’”
Xinjiang Rong, Peking University: “The Authenticity of Some Nestorian Christian Texts from Dunhuang and the Studies of Christianity in Tang China”
Xiaoping Yin, South China Agricultural University: “Two official Christian families in the Yuan Dynasty” |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Tea Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Group Discussion
Chair: Yuen Sang Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
General Discussant: Kam Wing Fung, The University of Hong Kong |
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Day 3: June 12, 2015
Theatre 303, 3/F, Chong Yuet Ming Amenities Centre,
The University of Hong Kong |
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| Panel 3: Linguistic and Textual |
| Panel Co-Chairs: |
Hsiao-ti Li, City University of Hong Kong (Morning) |
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Pei-kai Cheng, City University of Hong Kong (Afternoon) |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:50 |
Benjamin Wold, Trinity College Dublin: “What do Dead Sea Scrolls have to do with Early Christianity and Later Nestorianism? Trends and Trajectories in Emerging Scholarship”
Ruji Niu, Xinjiang Normal University: “History Is a Mirror – On the Spread of Nestorianism in China from the Newly Discovered Bronze Mirror with Cross-lotus and Syriac Inscriptions” |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
Tea Break |
| 11:05 - 11:55 |
Hidemi Takahashi, The University of Tokyo: “Representation of the Syriac Language in Jing Jiao Documents”
Nicholas Sims-Williams, School of Oriental and African Studies: “Sogdian Biblical manuscripts from the Turfan oasis” |
| 11:55 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:50 |
Erica Hunter, School of Oriental and African Studies: “The Christian Library from Turfan: commemorating the saints”
Xiaogui Zhang, Jinan University: ‘Studies on “Jing Jiao of the Great Ming Kingdom”’ |
| 14:50 - 15:05 |
Tea Break |
| 15:05 - 15:35 |
Group Discussion
Chair: Pei-kai Cheng, City University of Hong Kong
General Discussant: Glen L. Thompson, Asia Lutheran Seminary, Hong Kong |
| 15:35 - 16:00 |
Closing Remarks
| Co-Chairs: |
Kam Wing Fung and David Lung, The University of Hong Kong |
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