This event is sponsored by China Studies, the History Department, Comparative Religion Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization.
Time and Place:
Friday February 3rd, 1:30pm-5pm
Thomson Hall 317
Event Schedule:
1:35pm Christopher Atwood Professor, Mongol and Chinese History
University of Pennsylvania
“Empire of the Mongols: Plantation, Taxation, and Agricultural Innovation in Mongol Yuan Chiana”
2:45pm Stephen West Foundation Professor of Chinese
Arizona State University
“Chinese Perceptions of Giovanni D’Marignolli’s Visit as PapalEnvoy to the Court of Toghon Temür”
4pm Johan Elverskog Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Religious Studies
Southern Methodist University
“The Tumu Incident in Mongol Historiography”
Light refreshments provided
Reception to follow at 5pm