Lecturers and topics

• Pamela Crossley (Dartmouth College) via video communication: "The 大義覺密綠, and its outlook on barbarians and Qing legitimacy"

• Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): "Ethnicity and Sinicization in the Genesis of the First Steppe Empire: the Xiongnu Question Reconsidered"

• Evelyn Rawski (University of Pittsburgh): "How looking at Northeast Asia as a region rather than dividing it into Chinese, Korean or other histories might help to produce new insights into the historical experience of the peoples and states that have resided in the region"

• Naomi Standen (Newcastle University): "Life on the ground in the borderlands: evidence from texts and material culture"

• Veronika Veit (University of Bonn): "Tables and Biographies (piao - chuan) in Ch'ing Historiography: The example of the trilingual 'Ch'in-ting wai-fan meng-ku hui-pu wang kung piao-chuan/Jarlig-iyar togtagagsan gadagadu muji-yin monggol qotong ayimag-un wang güng-üd-ün iledkel sastir/Hesei toktobuha sirame banjibuha tulergi goloi monggo hoise aiman i wang gung sai ulabun' of 1795"

• Hans van Ess (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich): "The Ethos of the envoy and his treatment by the enemy in Han history"

• Roy Bin Wong (UCLA): "Reflections on Qing institutions of governance: Chinese empire in comparative perspective"