Seminar in Sino-Hellenic Studies: Comparative Perspectives on Greece and China

This seminar series draws on primary and secondary sources to examine structures and techniques of argument, persuasion, and rhetoric in early Chinese and Greek texts in comparative perspective through a range of topics across several disciplines. We will also discuss the methodology of comparison.

Seminar information

The seminars in 'Sino-Hellenic Studies: Comparative Perspectives on Greece and China' take place 2-4pm in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on the dates below. 

You can find the location of the Old Medical School at the link below.

Date Title Venue
Wed 17 Sep Thinking about ways of thinking: Indirection, Greek μῆτις, and Chinese wu wei 無為 G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 24 Sep Divination and Risk in Early China and Greece: Evidence from Dodona and Shuihudi G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 1 Oct Gendered Skill: Chinese and Greek Skill-Knowledge Analogies from Archery and Weaving G.16 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 8 Oct Matteo Ricci's Greek Sources and Chinese Writings G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 15 Oct When Virtues, Roles and Duties Fail: Early Greek and Chinese Accounts of Akrasia G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 22 Oct Human and Animal in China and Greece G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 12 Nov The Height of Heaven or the Circumference of the Earth: Two Chinese and Greek Perspectives G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 19 Nov Body-Mind Metaphors in Greece and China. G.16 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)
Wed 26 Nov The Invention of the Body in Greece and China G.13 Seminar Room - Doorway 4 (Old Medical School, Teviot)

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