Below is the schedule for Scaling the Ming, a conference on Ming Studies, hosted by the University of British Columbia.
The conference is open to the UBC community and interested scholars; please RSVP.
The conference has been generously sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies, the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, and UBC’s History Department, Department of Asian Studies, and Centre for Chinese Research.
| From | To | Activity | Location | |
| Friday May 18 |
08:00 | 08:30 | Breakfast | CK Choi Building, Room 120 |
| 08:30 | 08:45 | Welcome | ||
| 08:45 | 10:45 | Panel 1 Global Climate and Local Environment | ||
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00 | 13:00 | Panel 2 The Body’s Perspective | ||
| 13:00 | 13:45 | Lunch | ||
| 15:15 | 17:15 | Panel 3 Large within Small: Landscape, Garden, Rock, Flower | Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver’s Chinatown | |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Tea Break | ||
| 17:30 | 19:00 | Keynote Address Dr. Harriet Zurndorfer, “Collusion, Competition, and Compromise: Rethinking the Scale of Portuguese Interaction with Ming China, 1510–1557” | ||
| Saturday May 19 |
09:00 | 09:30 | Breakfast | CK Choi Building, Room 120 |
| 09:30 | 11:30 | Panel 4 New Approaches to Ming China’s Foreign Relations | ||
| Panel 5 This Much We Know: Ideas and Information | Liu Institute, Multipurpose Room | |||
| 11:30 | 13:00 | Lunch | CK Choi Building, Room 120 | |
| 13:00 | 15:00 | Panel 6 People Near and Far | ||
| Panel 7 Bounded in a Nutshell: Worlds within Words | Liu Institute, Multipurpose Room | |||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | CK Choi Building, Room 120 | |
| 15:30 | 17:30 | Panel 8 Measures of Control | ||
| 17:30 | 17:45 | Concluding Remarks |
