* With apologies for cross-posting * Dear Colleagues, I would like to share the news of the upcoming symposium of the PAIXUE Project, "Classicising Learning, Performance, and Power: Eurasian Perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.” Taking place over three days in Edinburgh, from Dec 12-14, 2019, the symposium brings together an extraordinary group of scholars working on diverse traditions and forms of classicising learning across Eurasia (and beyond). All are welcome but registration is required. For more information, including the full programme and abstracts, and please visit http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/node/12 Classicising Learning, Performance, and Power: Eurasian Perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period | PAIXUE<http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/node/12> This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 726371. paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk Our symposium will be preceded on the afternoon of December 11 by a special Research Meeting on Song China, featuring two much-anticipated lectures: - Prof. Patricia Ebrey (University of Washington), "The Resilience of Chinese Empires: How the Song Survived the Jurchen Invasion" - Prof. Anna Shields (Princeton), "Rewriting the Tang Dynasty Poetic Past: Epistemic Hybridity in the Records of Events Concerning Tang Poetry 唐詩紀事" Abstracts and details about time/venue can be found at http://paixue.shca.ed.ac.uk/node/1682<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaixue.shca.ed.ac.uk%2Fnode%2F1682%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR09dEai2L9CXwL-TENrXDLUl-P4fED8KJFlMc0furnXhp3kUosGubE3inA&h=AT3nZ1JI7imcaL58BXz9litD3IRHsufaru9ctR7_-YPCVImkijlVQJQ1qkwJ9o_2mftax1D5QWWtO1j-Rvk8MF0oOgGJwj9Ok8zUDbaWBpK11jQ_V1zizTApR64X29Pb_IG9X58FIxftareE7EjL2KSRBe9--urs-M8w7m0> The Symposium Speakers:​ Robert Ashmore (Berkeley), Floris Bernard (Ghent), Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh), Javier Cha (Seoul), Ming-kin Chu (Hong Kong), Christophe Erismann (Vienna), Bram Fauconnier (Ghent), Michael A. Fuller (Irvine), Elena Gittleman (Bryn Mawr), Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Edinburgh), James Hankins (Harvard), Florian Hartmann (Aachen), Michael Hope (Yonsei), Pascale Hugon (​Vienna), Takeshi Inomata (Arizona), Ashton Lazarus (Kyushu), Marina Loukaki (Athens), Christopher Nugent (Williams), Daphne Penna (Groningen), Alberto Rigolio (Durham), Asuka Sango (Carleton), Jonathan Skaff (Shippensburg), Luka Špoljarić (Zagreb), Ariel Stilerman (Stanford), Justin Stover (Edinburgh), Elizabeth Tyler (York), Lieve van Hoof (Ghent), Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill), Milan Vukašinović (ANAMED, Koç), Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna), Stephen H. West (Arizona), Julian Yolles (Odense). Any questions may be directed to me off-list at curie.virag@ed.ac.uk. Thank you, Curie Virág Co-Director, PAIXUE Project <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2686168464960347&set=a.1499576790286193&type=3&eid=ARBHTmTSEtXTBMo1cWkhj6L9uIP5I_CBmVo-mILdy7gnMVrN7X2z8VOVExCtlvpdpexZjKxMI5Yd7mbH> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.