Alumni Talk: David Schaberg PhD '96
Please join us for this talk entitled "Humanities Beyond the Crisis," with David Schaberg, Dean of the Humanites and Professor of Chinese Literature, UCLA.
Tuesday, April 8th @ 6:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Dr. East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
David Schaberg PhD '96 has published articles on early Chinese literature, historiography and thought, as well as Greek–Chinese comparative issues, focusing more recently on the history of oratory in early China. He is the author of A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography, which was awarded the 2003 Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies (pre-1900 category), and a contributor to a new translation of China’s first great historical work, The Zuo Tradition, to be published by the University of Washington Press. He is a member of the Association for Asian Studies, the American Oriental Society, the Society for the Study of Early China and the Modern Language Association, and he has lectured at a number of overseas institutions including Cambridge, Oxford, Fudan, National Taiwan, Shanghai and Suzhou universities; and domestically at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington and Yale.
David holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in comparative literature from Stanford University. He also studied Chinese literature at National Taiwan University from 1986 to 1988.
Deadline to register is April 5, 2014.
Cost: $40, members and their guests; $45, non-members and their guests
Contact: Priscilla Heim, priheim@verizon.net
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