Early Medieval China Workshop

Organized by:
The Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague

November 22–23, 2025

Saturday, November 22

09:00–09:30 Registration

09:30–10:00 Official Opening — performance by KOKS: Department of Sinology Musical Ensemble

10:00–11:00 Keynote Speech — Antje Richter

11:00–11:15 Coffee Break

11:15–12:35 Panel I

• No Love for Music in the South? — Annette Kieser
• [Title TBA] — Nataša Vampelj-Suhadolnik

12:35–13:45 Lunch Break

13:45–15:45 Panel II

• [Title TBA] — Ivana Buljan
• Of Forced and Granted Suicides: Comparative Perspectives on Cisi in Early Imperial China — Kathrin Leese-Messing
• Disaster and Rulership: Unpacking the Influence of Natural Calamities on Governance and Perception in China’s Sixteen Kingdoms — Monique Nagel-Angermann

15:45–16:00 Coffee Break

16:00–18:00 Panel III

• Helping to Create Another Son of Heaven – Support for Refugee Princes during the Northern and Southern Dynasties — Jakub Hrubý
• Feeding a Capital: The State Granaries of Pingcheng Documented in Historical Sources and Archaeological Findings — Maddalena Barenghi
• Fan Chuo’s Manshu: Ethnographic Account or Local Gazetteer? — Alexis Lycas

19:00 Conference Dinner — Restaurant Století, Karoliny Světlé 21, 110 00 Prague 1 – Old Town, https://stoleti.cz/en/

Sunday, November 23

09:00–10:20 Panel IV

• Chongxuanxue between “Integrated Daoism” and “Local Chang’an Daoism” — Friederike Assandri
• The Illness of Vimalakīrti — Jan Vihan

10:20–10:35 Coffee Break

10:35–12:35 Panel V

• Bian Bin 卞彬 and Qiu Juyuan 丘巨源: Two Men of Letters from the “Wenxue” 文學 Chapter of the Nan Qishu 南齊書 (Book of Southern Qi) — Giulia Baccini
• In Search of Fu 賦 on Rivers — Valérie Lavoix
• Seeing Through Others’ Eyes: On Narrative Perspective in Early Medieval Zhiguai Literature — Paul Fahr

12:35–13:00 Concluding Remarks