Classical Chinese and Philosophical Linguistics Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier

You are cordially invited to the Classical Chinese and Philosophical Linguistics Workshop with Professor Christoph Harbsmeier organized by Associate Professor Loy Hui-Chieh on 12th and 13th February 2018 at the Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture, NUS FASS AS8-05-49.

There will be four sessions in the workshop:

Session 1: Guo Xiang on the Philosophy of Zhuangzi (Day 1, 10am to 12pm)

Session 2: Self-Construal in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective (Day 1, 2pm to 4pm)

Session 3: Anaphora and Coreference in Classical Chinese (Day 2, 10am to 12pm)

Session 4: Are Some Languages Better than Others? (Day 2, 2pm to 4pm)

As lunch and refreshments will be provided, please RSVP by 5 February 2018 at https://tinyurl.com/classical-chinese-workshop.

About the speaker: Christoph Harbsmeier is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo. He also holds honorary professorships at Peking University, Fudan University (Shanghai), Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University. His main work is in the history of science (logic), conceptual history, historical linguistics, and modern Chinese Cartoons.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, and co-sponsored by the Division of Humanities, Yale-NUS College. Special thanks to the Wan Boo Sow Research Centre for Chinese Culture for granting the use of their facilities.

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