Thursday, December 17, 2009

GRANTS AND HONORS Jinyu Liu

The Humanities Foundation Grant, Peking University (北京大学人文基金高级访问学者), 2011-2012

Mellon Sponsored Wabash-DePauw Program at the East-West Center, Hawaii: Chinese Culture and the Humanities, July 30-August 10, 2012

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship (2011-2014)

GLCA New Directions Initiative, Summer 2011 (summer stipend, travel fund, and funds for books)

DePauw University Faculty Fellowship, 2011-2014 (course release, research fund, and salary supplement)

Fisher Time-out (one-course release) for a research project called “Virgil in China”, Spring, 2011

Faculty Development Summer Stipend for Course Enhancement on "The (Environmental) Impact of the Roman Empire, Summer, 2010

Associate Research Fellow, ISAW (Institute of the Study of the Ancient World), NYU, 2007-2008 (on leave from DePauw)

Arthur E. and Joyce S. Gordon Fellow, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at the Ohio State University, Summer, 2007.

David Stevenson Fellowship ($15,000; National Grant, USA): Pagan Philanthropy versus Christian Charity: “Secular” versus “religious” philanthropy from a historical perspective, 2006-2007

National Endowment of Humanities (NEH, USA) Summer Seminar on Trajan’s Column (organized by Profs. Richard Talbert and Michael Maas), American Academy at Rome, June 26-July 28, 2006

Mellon Venture Fund: Epigraphic Studies in Italy, Summer 2006

DePauw University Faculty Development Summer Stipend for New Course Development The Impact of the Roman Empire: From Augustus to Constantine, Summer 2005

Honorary external faculty member, Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Sept. 2004-

Columbia University 1998-2004
Lane Cooper-Whiting Fellowship, 2003-2004
CAM(Center for Ancient Mediterranean) Travel Fellowship, Summer 2002
Morton Smith Fellowship, Columbia University, 2001-2002
GSAS Summer Fellowship, Columbia University 2001
President's Fellowship, Columbia Unviersity, 1999-2001, 2002-2003
Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University, 1998-1999

Nanjing University 1989-1998
People's Scholarship (1990-1996); Guanghua Scholarship (Taiwan, 1991);
Ou Yangzao Scholarship (1992); SYLFF Scholarship (Japan,1995).

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

PUBLICATIONS Jinyu Liu

Monograph

Collegia Centonariorum: the Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West, Brill, 2009.

Review of the book in Latomus: "Ce livre, issu d’une thèse de doctorat sous la direction de W.V. Harris, présentée à l’université de Columbia, se propose de comprendre les origines, les fonctions, l’organisation et le statut social et légal des collegia centonariorum dans l’empire romain. Disons-le d’emblée, Mme Liu a pleinement atteint cet objectif et nous régale d’une étude exemplaire dont les acquis sont de première importance." (by Professor Robert Duthoy)

"This book both broadens and refines our understanding of the associative phenomenon under the Roman Empire. L.'s multifaceted analysis will appeal not only to those involved in research on collegia, but also to social and economic historians in general." For the review in Classical Review 62.2 (2012): 602-604, please go to http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X12001242.

BMCR Review:“What this book strives to provide is an exercise that pushed the available sources to their fuller, if not their fullest, potential” (p. 295) proclama orgogliosamente Liu. Concordiamo pienamente, considerando l’opera un vero progresso per gli studi in questo campo. Inoltre essa contiene numerosi spunti dedicati a moltissimi aspetti della vita politica,economica e sociale dell’impero romano, come ad es. la discussione (p.46) delle attestazioni molto tarde di flamines (uno divi Augusti da Corfinium addirittura dell’anno 180). La comprensione dell’antico si giova anche del riferimento a prassi medievali e persino moderne (ad es. in Canada, a p. 64, ma anche degli strazzaroli a Bologna e dei rigattieri a Firenze, p. 70); a p. 127 compare anche un paragone con l’antica Cina.'

The proofreading of the book, as mentioned by the reviewer and lamented by myself earlier, could indeed have been better.

Sehepunkte Rezension

“Die Untersuchung der centonarii zeugt von einer umsichtigen Interpretation der Quellen, wobei Liu nicht nur die direkten Zeugnisse zu den centonarii auswertet, sondern auch andere collegia als Vergleichsobjekte heranzieht. Damit richtet sich das Werk einerseits an den Wirtschaftshistoriker, der sich mit der kaiserzeitlichen Textilproduktion auseinandersetzt. Andererseits bieten die allgemeinen Bemerkungen zum Quellenwert der Vereinsinschriften, zu den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen des Kollegienwesens, zu der sozialen Zusammensetzung der collegia, zu den Aufgaben von patroni und den religiösen Aktivitäten auch einen gelungenen Einblick in das kaiserzeitliche Kollegienwesen im Westen des Römischen Reiches.”

Articles and Book Chapters

Clothing supply for the military: a look at the inscriptional evidence, in Wearing the Cloak: Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times (ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES), edited by Marie-Louise Nosch. Oxbow Books in association with the Center for Textile Research, 2011: 19-29.

Late Antique Fora and Public Honor in the Western Cities: Case studies, Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Ashgate, 2012: 225-243.

Pompeii and Collegia: a new appraisal of the evidence,” Ancient History Bulletin22.1-4 (2008): 53-69

The Economy of Endowments: the case of Roman associations,” In Koenraad Verboven, Katelijn Vandorpe and Véronique Chankowski-Sable (edd.), ‘Pistoi dia tèn technèn’. Bankers, loans and archives in the Ancient World. Studies in honour of Raymond Bogaert, Studia Hellenistica 44. Leuven, Peeters, 2008: 231-256. BMCR review.

“The Era of Patavium Again,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE) 162 (2007): 281-289.

“Local Governments and Collegia: a new appraisal of the evidence,” in Jean-Jacques Aubert and Zsuzsanna Várhelyi (edd.), A Tall Order: Imperialism, Law, Religion, And Society in the Ancient World, essays in honor of William V. Harris, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 216. K. G. Saur Verlag. 2005: 279-310.

Multiple publications in Chinese (1993-1999): topics included A Biography of Julius Caesar, The Evolution of the System of the Imperial Succession: a comparative study of the Roman and Chinese systems, The Religious Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, etc.

Book Reviews:
• Book review of “Conceiving the Empire” (Oxford, 2008), Classical Review 60.1 (2010): 227-229.
• Review of Nielson, Inge, ed. Zwischen Kult und Gesellschaft (Hephaistos 24). Camelion-Verlag, Augsburg 2007. American Journal of Archaeology (AJA) 2008.
• Review of N. TRAN, LES MEMBRES DES ASSOCIATIONS ROMAINES. LE RANG SOCIAL DES COLLEGIATI EN ITALIE ET EN GAULES, SOUS LE HAUT-EMPIRE. (École française de Rome Collection de l'École française de Rome, 367.) Roma, 2006 and F. DIOSONO, COLLEGIA. LE ASSOCIAZIONI PROFESSIONALI NEL MONDO ROMANO. Roma: Quasar, 2007. Journal of Roman Studies.
• Review of Roman Dacia: The Making of a Provincial Society. Book Review. BMCR (Bryn Mawr Classical Review), 2005.03.12.

Forthcoming:
• Trade, traders and guilds (?) in textiles: the case of Southern Gaul and Northern Italy (First-Third Centuries), Textile Workers and Their Identity.(Proofs read)
• Chapter on Collegia in the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, Cambridge University Press, due 2009.
• Book Contract with Duckworth, due 2011, Graeco-Roman Classics in China.
• Entries in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social History
• Book Contract with Beijing (Peking) University Press: Introduction to Roman Studies.
• The Egyptian Associations in the First Century AD. In the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ancient History, Shanghai, China, August 17-21, 2005.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Professional Presentations and Invited Lectures

Honor or Embarrassment: a case study of inscribed public munificence, International Conference on Ancient History, Nankai University, June 16, 2012

Confucius and Socrates: The Xueheng (Critical Review) Group and the Value of Western Antiquity, Western Classics in China co-organized by Chicago, Stanford and PKU, May 28, 2012

“Romanization” and Identity: the case of Patavium “罗马化”与身份认同, Nankai University (南开大学), Tianjin, China, December 16, 2011; Center for Western Classics, Peking University (北京大学), Beijing, China, March 23, 2012; Nanjing University (南京大学), May 18, 2012 (invited talk, delivered in Chinese).

Collegia and Endowments: New Insights into Urban Life in the Roman Empire社团与馈赠:罗马帝国城市生活新探,Shanghai Normal University (上海师范大学),Shanghai, China, December 8, 2011;South-West University,Chongqing,China,March 29, 2012 (invited talk, delivered in Chinese).

The Aesop’s Fables’ Chinese Experience伊索寓言的中国历程, Renmin University(人民大学), Beijing, China, November 30, 2011; Central Normal University, Wuhan, China, April 3, 2012 (invited talk, delivered in Chinese).

Latin Epigraphy and the Study of Roman History拉丁铭文与罗马史研究, Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS,中国社会科学院世界史所), Beijing, China, October 13, 2011 (invited talk, delivered in Chinese).

Roman Associations as Recipients of Gifts. The Annual Meeting of the Association of the Ancient Historians of China. The University of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, China, Aug. 25-29, 2011.

Honor or Embarrassment: a case study of inscribed public benefaction, Annual Meeting of the Indiana Classical Association, April 15, 2011.

AE 1998. 282: A Case Study of Public Benefaction and Local Politics, the First North American Epigraphical Congress. San Antonio. January 5, 2011.

Military Textile Supply in the Roman Empire: A Look at the Inscriptional Evidence, American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting. San Antonio. January 2011.

The Politics of Public Space and Public Honor in the Western Cities, invited talk (delivered in Chinese), Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 18th, 2009.

Trade, traders and guilds (?) in textiles: the case of southern Gaul and northern Italy (First-Third Centuries). At the conference “Work and Identity: The agents of textile production and exchange in the Roman period”, Hallstatt, Austria, June 7th, 2009.

Fora and Public Honor in the Western Cities in the Fourth Century: Case Studies, “Shifting Frontier in Late Antiquity VIII”, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 6, 2009.

Textile Economy in the Western Empire in the First Three Centuries, SBL (Society of Biblical Literature), Boston, Nov. 2008.

Exhortations in Greek and Latin Honorific Inscriptions: a tale of difference, CAMWS, Tucson, April 18, 2008.

Respondent on the panel Six Foreign Classicists: Teaching Challenges and Successful Strategies, CAMWS, Tucson, April 18, 2008.

Inscribed Exempla: Honors, Exhortations (or the Avoidance of them), and Latin Epigraphic Culture, Classics Department, Georgetown University, Jan. 14, 2008.

Exploring the Graeco-Roman Roots of the Western Philanthropy,Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Georgia, Atlanta, Nov., 2007.

Inscribed Exempla: a Comparison of Greek and Latin Honorific Inscriptions, XIII International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford, Sept., 2007.

A lecture on Latin Epigraphy for the Epigraphic Summer Seminar (principal professor: Fritz Graf), Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at the Ohio State University, August 9, 2007.

Inscribed Generosity: continuity and changes in the fourth century CE. AAH annual meeting, Princeton. May, 2007.

Poverty and Philanthropy: The Inscriptional Evidence from the Fourth Century, CAMWS, Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 2007.

The Dacian Wars beyond Trajan’s Column, on the panel titled “Contextualizing Trajan's Column: The 2006 NEH Summer Seminar,” CAMWS, Cincinnati, Ohio. April, 2007 (invited panelist).

Understanding the Salt Dealers' Functions with a Grain of Salt, American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting. San Diego. January, 2007;

Local Identity and the Empire: the case of Roman Patavium, University of California, Berkeley, January, 2007.

The Chinese Translation of Graeco-Roman Classics, American Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) meeting, Stanford University May, 2006;

Government and Private Organizations: The Functions of the Egyptian Associations in the First Century AD, CAMWS annual meeting, Florida Apr. 2006;

The Economy of Endowments: the case of Roman associations. Banks, Loans and Financial Archives in the Ancient World international colloquium in honour of prof. em. Raymond Bogaert. Brussels – Ghent, Belgium. Thu. 26 - Sat. 28 Jan. 2006. (by invitation)

The Era of Patavium Reconsidered. American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting. Montreal. Jan. 7, 2006.

Perpetual Endowments and the Roman Associations. Faculty Research Colloquia. DePauw University. Sept. 30, 2005.

The Egyptian Associations in the First Century AD. The Third International Conference on Ancient History. Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Aug. 17-21, 2005.

Pompeii and collegia: New Appraisal of the Evidence. CAMWS Annual Meeting (Madison), April 1st, 2005.

Patronage of Collegia: some aspects of the social relations and social life in the Roman cities (first century-fourth century AD), Toronto University, Cornell University, McGill University, 2004.

Perpetual Endowments and the Socio-economic Roles of the Ancient Associations, Center for Ancient Mediterranean (CAM), Columbia University, October, 2003.

The Collegia Dendrophorum and the Cult of Magna Mater in the Roman Empire, University of Pennsylvania, October, 2003.

Patronage of the Roman Collegia, Classics Graduate Colloquium, Columbia University, Feb., 2003.

Vestimenta for Lower Classes, Center for Archaeology, Columbia University, 2002.

Homosexuality in the Roman Empire, Live @ Lerner, Lunch and Lecture: Queer Theories/Queer Histories, Columbia University, October, 2001.

The Evolution of the System of the Imperial Succession (Roman Empire, 31 B.C.-A.D.476), International Conference in Ancient History II, Changchun, China, September 1996.

Cato the Elder and Agricultural Economy, International Conference in Ancient History I, Tianjin, China, September 1993.