Conference Schedule
First Day (WJ 103)
| October 6, Friday | ||
| 9:00-10:00 | Welcome Reception (Breakfast) | |
| Opening Remarks | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | Chair: Madeleine Zelin
(Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Columbia University) |
Representative of Columbia University:
Gray Tuttle (Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies) |
| 10:15-10:30 | Representative of Renmin University of China:
Oyunbilig Borjigidai (Executive Dean, School of Chinese Classics) |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Representative of the Confucius Institute:
Lening Liu (Director, Confucius Institute) |
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| 10:45-11:00 | Group Photo | |
| I．Chair: Robert Barnett
(Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program/ Senior Research Scholar, WEAI) |
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| 11:00-11:20 | Timothy Brook
(Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia) |
Beyond “Empire”: Re-Periodizing China’s History from an Asian Perspective |
| 11:20-11:40 | Khatanbaatar Choidogsuren (Executive Director, Luvsandanzanravjaa Academy of Mongolia) | Relationship between Manchus and Mongols during the Qing Dynasty Period |
| 11:40-12:00 | Urangua Jamsran
(Professor, Department of History, National University of Mongolia) |
Qing Dynasty’s Rewards to Mongolian Nobles: Were the Titles and Ranks Purchasable? (17th – pre 20th century) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Discussion | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| II．Chair: Per K. Sörensen
(Professor of Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University) |
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| 13:30-13:50 | Yudru Tsomu (Associate Professor, Center for Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University) | The Seventh Dalai Lama’s Resident Monastery—The Gartar Monastery: Interactions with the Indigenous Chiefs in Kham and the Qing Court |
| 13:50-14:10 | Eveline Yang
(PhD Candidate, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University) Bloomington |
Mongol Royal Lineages in Eastern Tibet: A Preliminary Study of a Chaghadaid Genealogy in Rdza chu kha and Mgo log |
| 14:10-14:30 | Riga Shakya
(PhD Student in History-East Asian, Columbia University) |
The Qing Through the Auto/Biographies of Tibetan Kalons in the 18th and 19th centuries |
| 14:30-15:00 | Discussion | |
| III．Chair: Dedong Wei
(Director of International Center for Buddhist Studies, Renmin University of China) |
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| 15:00-15:20 | Tsering Shakya (Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia) | Qianlong’s Edict and the Contestation over Succession |
| 15:20-15:40 | Ling-Wei Kung
(PhD Student in History-East Asian, Columbia University) |
The Secret History of Tibet: The Mindstream Transference from the Fifth to the Sixth Dalai Lamas and its Manchu-Mongolian Translations in the Qing Archives |
| 15:40-16:00 | Natsagdorj Battsengel, (Research Fellow, Institute of History, Mongolian Academy of Science) | Buddhism and the Mongolian Identity of the Russian Buryats in the 18th Century |
| 16:00-16:30 | Discussion | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Introduction to Columbia’s Special Collections in Manchu, Mongolian, and Tibetan (Organized by Drs. Lauran Hartley and Chengzhi Wang in Kress Room of C. V. Starr Library) | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Donation Ceremony of Mongolian Tripitaka in C. V. Starr Library (Only for Invited Guests) | |
| Dinner (Szechuan Garden) | ||
Second Day (WJ 417)
| October 7, Saturday | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Breakfast | ||
| VI．Chair: Timothy Brook
(Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia) |
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| 10:00-10:20 | Oyunbilig Borjigidai
(Professor, School of Chinese Classics, Renmin University of China) |
The Changes and Symbolism of Dzungar Mountain and River Blessing Rituals | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Chengzhi (Kicengge) (Professor, Otemon Gakuin University) | A Thorough Investigation of the 18th Century Dzungar Keret Otok | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Bakhyt Ezhenkhan-Uli (Senior Research Fellow, International Turkic Academy, Kazakhstan) | Two Manchu Documents Concerning the Kazakh Territories in the Second Half of 18th Century | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Max Oidtmann
(Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University in Qatar) |
The Qing’s Last Kūtuktu: Künga Gyeltsen and the Tongzhi Restoration in Inner Asia | |
| 11:20-12:00 | Discussion | ||
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | ||
| V．Chair: Tsering Shakya
(Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia) |
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| 13:00-13:20 | Weirong Shen (Professor, Institute for Advanced Study of Humanity and Social Science, Qinghua University) | Observing “the New Qing History” within and without | |
| 13:20-13:40 | Zhuangsheng (Kicentai) (Associate Professor, Northeast Normal University) | Climate Change in Manchuria and Disaster Relief Policy during the Qing Period: A Study of the Natural Disaster of Hucun River Basin in 1750 | |
| 13:40-14:00 | Jisheng Xie (Professor, Center for Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Art, Zhejiang University) | The Origins of the Alloy Copper Statues Zi-khyim Li-ma in the Qing Court | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Lei Lin
(PhD Candidate, Committee on Inner Asia and Altaic Studies, Harvard University) |
The Limits of Empire: The Qing-Gurkha War and China’s Trans-Himalayan Borderland, 1788-1793 | |
| 14:20-15:00 | Discussion | ||
| 15:00-15:15 | Tea Break | ||
| 15:15-16:00 | Round Table Discussion
Chair: Gray Tuttle (Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University) |
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| Closing Ceremony | |||
Conference reports in Chinese:
- Official website of School of Chinese Classics, Renmin Univeristy of China (2017/10/22), http://guoxue.ruc.edu.cn/displaynews.php?id=1567
- Official website of the Confucius Institute Headquarters (2017/10/26), http://www.hanban.edu.cn/article/2017-10/26/content_703329.htm
