Full Schedule (International Forum on Ancient Civilizations and the First Bilateral Conference)

International Forum on Ancient Civilizations and the First Bilateral Conference
between the Institute of Archaeology, CASS and Stanford University (2009)

                                   May 25-26，2009，Beijing

May 25, 2009

Morning Session
Chaired by Xingcan CHEN, Prof. and Deputy Director of IA CASS

9.00-9.10  Wei WANG, Prof. and Director of IA CASS
Welcome Speech
9.10-10.10 Wei WANG, Professor, IA CASS
New Development of Researches on the Origin of Chinese Civilization
10.10-11.10 Ian Robertson, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Social and historical factors in the emergence of an early city: Teotihuacan, Mexico
11.10-12.10 Xinwei LI, Associate Professor, IA CASS
   Excavations at Xipo and New Light on the Initial Stage of Social Complexity
   in the Heartland of Prehistoric China
12.10-1.30 Lunch

Afternoon Session
Chaired by Xiaoneng YANG, Curator of Asian Art, Stanford University

1.30- 2.30 John Rick, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Formative Routes to Hierarchical Societies in the Ancient Andes
2.30-3.30  Jigen TANG, Professor, IA CASS
   Oriental tradition in Chinese archaeology

3.30-3.50  Coffer Break

3.50-4.50  Laura Jones, Director of Heritage Services, Stanford University
   Heritage Resource Management: Best Practices and Strategies for
   Preservation of Important Sites and Structures
4.50-5.20  Discussion

5.30-7.00  Welcome Banquet

May 26，2009

Morning Session
Chaired by Yunxiang BAI, Prof. and Deputy Director of IA CASS

9.00-10.00 Xingcan CHEN, Professor, IA CASS
Centre and Periphery: Resource Strategy of Early State of China---A Case
Study from Huizui
10.00-11.00 Xiaoneng YANG, Curator of Asian Art, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
   Foreign Contacts before the Silk Road/Routes–Archaeological Observations
11.00-12.00 Jimmy Zhijun ZHAO, Professor, IA CASS
   The Wheat Route – Archaeological Observations of Early Wheat in China

12.00-1.30 Lunch

Afternoon Session
Chaired by Dr. Laura Jones, Director of Heritage Services and University Archaeologist
   for Stanford University

1.30-2.30  Richard Vinograd, Professor, Stanford University
   The Impact of Archaeological Discoveries on Art Historical Understandings
   of Chinese Painting
2.30-3.30  Jinpeng DU, Professor, IA CASS
Large Site Protection in China: Recent Development

3.30-3.50  Coffee Break

3.50-4.50  Michael Wilcox, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
   Questioning Collapse: Narratives of Disappearance at Chaco Canyon and
   the Hohokam Heartland in the American Southwest
4.50-5.20  Discussion

6.00-7.00  Dinner