Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable
March 28, 2016
Link to video:
- Introductions (Elizabeth Perry and Rowan Flad)
- South Asian Archaeology: Recent Discoveries and Controversies (Nayanjot Lahiri)
- Origins, Intellect, Innovation & Identity: Issues in Indian and Asian prehistoric archaeology (Parth R. Chauhan)
- State Formation of Southeast Asia: An Example from Pre-Angkor Cambodia (Piphal Heng)
- Recent Discoveries and Controversies in Korean Archaeology (Yangjin Pak)
- Asian Archaeology: Recent Discoveries and Controversies: Japan (Ken’ichi Sasaki)
- Chinese Archaeology and “the Origin of Chinese Civilization (Xiaoying Zha)
- Asian Archaeology: Recent Discoveries and Controversies – Discussion and Q&A
Panelists:
- Parth R. Chauhan (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Mohali, Punjab)
- Piphal Heng (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
- Nayanjot Lahiri (Professor of History, Ashoka University)
- Yangjin Pak (Professor, Department of Archaeology, Chungnam National University)
- Kenichi Sasaki (Meiji University)
- Xiaoying Zha (Associate Professor, History Department, Sichuan University)
Moderator: Rowan Flad (John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)
This event was co-sponsored with the Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.