From: Steinhardt, Nancy S <nssteinh@sas.upenn.edu<mailto:nssteinh@sas.upenn.edu>> Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 10:18 PM Colleagues: I send here the first announcement of a conference that will take place at the University of Pennsylvania the last weekend in October. We do not have an official mailing list--the 40 names here are people who we think will want to have it on your calendars, or in some cases, you have lists with members who would like to know about it. Please feel free to circulate this far and wide. This is a free conference, open to the public. However, registration is required. The link below is to the website where you can register. Please feel free to ask me any questions that come to mind. We hope to see you in Philadelphia in October. Nancy -- Nancy S. Steinhardt 
 Professor of East Asian Art 
 Curator of Chinese Art 
 Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations 
847 Williams Hall 
 University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 
TEL 215 898-6256 
FAX 215 573-9617 http://web.sas.upenn.edu/mpmac/program/ MIDDLE-PERIOD MONGOLIAN ARCHAEOLOGY CONFERENCE PROGRAM OCTOBER 26-27, 2019 OCTOBER 26 Ben Franklin Room, College Hall (unconfirmed) UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 8:30 Coffee and light breakfast 9:00 Welcoming remarks Stephen Fluharty, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (unconfirmed) 9:10-10:15 Christopher Atwood, Professor of Inner Asian History, Penn "Inner Asian History: Major Discoveries and Unsolved Problems in the Light of Archaeology" 10:15-10:30 Coffee break 10:30 – 12:00 Overview Talk 1 Wei Jian, Renmin University, Beijing “Most Important Discoveries and Unsolved Problems of Middle-Period Archaeology: The View from Beijing” 12:00-1:15 Lunch break 1:15 – 2:45 Overview Talk 2 Nikolai Kradin, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Vladivostok “Most Important Discoveries and Unsolved Problems of Middle-Period Archaeology: The View from Vladivostok” 2:45 – 3:00 Coffee break 3:00 – 4:30 Overview Talk 3 Lkhagvasuren Erdenebold, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaator “Most Important Discoveries and Unsolved Problems of Middle-Period Archaeology: The View from Ulaanbaatar” 4:30-4:45 Coffee break 4:45-5:45 Round-table discussion led by Valerie Hansen (Yale University) and Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study) 6:30 Dinner by Invitation OCTOBER 27 MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY 8:30 Coffee and light breakfast 9:15 Welcoming remarks Julian Siggers, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (unconfirmed) 9:30-11:00 Overview Talk 4 Jan Bemmann, University of Bonn “Most Important Discoveries and Unsolved Problems of Middle-Period Archaeology: The View from Bonn” 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-12:00 Kang In Uk, Kyung Hee University and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania “New Discoveries in the Relationship between Balhae and the Uighur Khaganate - based on the Koksharovka Archaeological Complex in Far Eastern Region Russia" 12:10-12:55 Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University “Major Discoveries and Unsolved Problems of Mongolian Numismatics” 1:00-3:00 Lunch break Museum open Objects in storage may be seen by pre-conference requests 3:00-4:30 Research on Middle Period Mongolian Archaeology by Penn Ph. D.s Annie Chan (Ludwig Maximillian University) “Corporeal Variability and Commemorative Rituals of Turkic Anthropomorphic Stelae from Xinjiang, Tuva, and Mongolia” Ah-Rim Park (Sookmyong Women’s University) “Steppe Statuary of the 7th-8th Centuries” Bryan Miller (Michigan) “Through the 'Dark Ages': An Archaeological Perspective on the (Re)Emergence of Steppe Empires in the Mid-First Millennium CE” Petya Andreeva (Parsons School of Design) " Portable Luxury: Metalwork of the Golden Horde Elite" 4:30 Closing Discussion (Nancy Steinhardt) Funding for this conference is generously provided by the Penn Global Engagement Fund, the University Research Foundation, and the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania To unsubscribe from the CHINA_ROUNDTABLE list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CHINA_ROUNDTABLE,SIGNOFF); -------------------------------------------- Tracy Miller, Ph.D. Associate Professor, History of Art and Asian Studies Vanderbilt University President, Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies https://my.vanderbilt.edu/tracymiller/