Recent Papers & Invited Talks
2005-present2000-2005
1995-1999
2005-present
"'Sacrifice as living': Confucian Conceptions of Life and Death in Rites to Ancestors," The International Symposium Sacrifice Between Life and Death, Katholische Akademie, Weingarten, September 15, 2008
"The Cultic Confucius," Confucius Institute, University of Edinburgh, April 21, 2008
"A Confucian Theory of Gods and the Rites the Venerate Them," Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Atlanta, April 4, 2008
"Confucian Rites and the Reorienting of Modern Ritual Theory," University of Michigan, March 25, 2008
"The Gods of the Analects," Introducing Research Materials into the Chinese Religion Curriculum, ASIANetwork, San Antonio, March 16, 2008
"A Confucian Theory of Gods," Fifth International Conference on History, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens Greece, Dec. 28-31, 2007
"Rituals in Indian and Chinese Cultures: A Comparative Perspective," American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Diego, November 17, 2007
"Confucius as Ancestor," Mellon Seminar on Confucius, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 8, 2007
"Imperial and Ancestral Sacrifices to Confucius," AAS annual conference, Boston, March 21, 2007
"Confucius on gods," Mellon Seminar on Confucius, University of Wisconsin, February 23, 2007
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"Confucianism as a Ritual Tradition: Sacrifice and the Question of Confucian 'Religiousness,'" University of Tennessee, April 25, 2003
"The Confucianization of East Asian Society," Maryville College, April 24, 2003
"Ritual Purity, Ritual Victim in Confucian Cult Sacrifice," University of Pittsburgh, April 1, 2003
"Liturgies of Confucian Sacrifice," American Academy of Religions (AAR), Denver, Nov. 17, 2001
"A Reconsideration of Missionary Writings on Chinese Religions," Conference on Re-Presenting Chinese Religion, University of Colorado at Boulder, Nov. 16, 2001
"A Canonical Reading of the Imperial Sacrifices to Confucius," Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, April 11, 2000
"Disputing Confucius: Debates on the Status of the Sage in the State and Family Cults of Confucius," Colloquium on Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 17, 2000
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"The Family and State Cults of Confucius," Colloquium on Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Nov. 28, 1999
"Ritualizing Confucius," Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference, Washington D.C., March 28, 1998
"The Indelible Mark of an Overlooked Scholar: Toward a Restructuring of Sinological Hermeneutics," Subjects, Dialogues, Histories: An International Conference in Memory of Professor Edward T. Ch'ien, Taipei, sponsored by the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei, February 4, 1997
"The Role of Ritual in the Construction of Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China," University of Wisconsin, March 1996
"The Ritual Formation of Confucian Orthodoxy and the Descendants of the Sage," Harvard University, February 1996
"The Family and State Cults of Confucius," Institute of Glogal Studies annual conference, Binghamton University, SUNY, October 1995
"The Ritualization of Confucian Orthodoxy and the Descendants of the Sage," University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies, Columbia University, May 1995
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