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.

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