Conference Programme

Thurs, 24th January	Needham Research Institute
12:30 - 13:20	Lunch and registration
13:20 - 13:30	Welcome remarks: Geoffrey Lloyd
13:30 - 14.45	Walter Scheidel: “Comparing Comparisons”
14.45 - 15.00	Coffee break
15.00 - 16.15	Michael Nylan: “On Libraries and Manuscript Culture in Western Han Chang'an and Alexandria”
17.00 - 18.00	CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Nathan Sivin: “Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others” Public talk at CRASSH, open to all

Fri, 25th January	Needham Research Institute
9.30 - 10.45	Jeremy Tanner: “Portraits and Politics in Classical Greece and Early Imperial China”
10.45 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.15	Ian Johnston: “The School of Names and the Later Mohists: Their Relevance in Early Chinese Philosophy and Comparisons to Contemporary Greek Thought”
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.00	Richard King: “Freedom in Zhuangzi and some Stoics”
15.00 - 15.15	Coffee break
15.15 - 16.30	Lisa Raphals: “Scales of Nature in Zhuangzi and Aristotle”
18.00 - 19.30	Drinks Reception hosted by Cambridge University Press

Sat, 26th January	Needham Research Institute
9.30 - 10.45	Shigehisa Kuriyama: “Medicine and the Mystery of Presence”
10.45 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 12.15	Vivienne Lo and Eleanor Re'em: “Recipes for Love in the Ancient Worlds?”
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.45 - 15.00	Yiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
15.00 - 15.15	Coffee break
15.15 - 16.30	Heinrich von Staden: “Fundamental Issues in the Historiography of Ancient Science"
17.30 - 18.30	CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Christopher Cullen: "Some Comparative Experiences" Public Talk at CRASSH, open to all
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