With apologies for cross-posting The PAIXUE project is pleased to announce the first international conference of our five-year, ERC-funded China-Byzantium research project, "Classicising Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang/Song Xue.” The three-day conference will take place in Edinburgh, from 16-18 May, and will be devoted to the broader theme of "Comparative Approaches to the Chinese and Byzantine Imperial Systems: Literati, Cities, Courts, Soldiers." It will feature a stellar lineup of speakers who have been exploring the possibilities of collaborative work across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The speakers and respondents are: Michal Biran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Peter Bol (Harvard) Christian De Pee (Michigan) Hilde De Weerdt (Leiden) Alexei Ditter (Reed College/Universität zu Köln) Nicholas Evans (Cambridge), Niels Gaul (Edinburgh) Michael Hoeckelmann (Erlangen-Nürnberg) Marek Jankowiak (Oxford) Christian Lamouroux (EHESS) Ari Levine (University of Georgia) Lu Yang (Beijing) Christos Makrypoulias (Hellenic National Research Foundation, Athens) Lee Mordechai (SESYNC & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Claudia Rapp (Vienna) Alexander Riehle (Harvard) Filippo Ronconi (EHESS) Anna Shields (Princeton) Kostis Smyrlis (NYU) Foteini Spingou (Edinburgh) Yannis Stouraitis (Edinburgh) Claudia Sode (Köln) Curie Virág (Edinburgh) Linda Walton (Portland) To register for the conference, download the programme, and learn more about the PAIXUE project, please visit http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/. Any questions may be directed to me off-list at curie.virag@ed.ac.uk. Thank you, Curie Virág Co-Project Director, PAIXUE Project The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.