International Conference on Comparative Mythology
Harvard & Peking University
Beijing, May 11-13, 2006
May 10, Wed.: Arrival, check-in and enrollment.
14:00 (= 2 p.m.) Visit of the University Library. Starting point:
Lobby of the Shaoyuan 7 Hotel
15:30 Tea in Linhuxuan (临湖轩 House at lake)
16:30 Walk through the Campus.
18:00 Professor Wang Bangwei (王邦维,Director of the Center of Eastern Literature) invites the participants to a welcome dinner at Shaoyuan 2.
May 11, Thurs.:
8:30 Opening speech by Prof. Chen Zhaoxing程朝翔,
Dean of the School of Foreign Languages of PKU
8:50 Keynote speech by Prof. Michael Witzel,Harvard
9:20 The Mythological Implication Effect: the Spirits of Western and Chinese Cultures Embodied in Their Mythologies
神话的文化暗示效应与中西文化精神
by Prof. Gu Zhengkun辜正坤 (PKU)
9:50 Keynote speech by Prof. Huang Baosheng黄宝生,
Principal Translator of Mahabharata into Chinese,
(Chinese Academy of Social Science, CASS).
10:20 Teabreak
10:40 Panel:Western and Eastern
* John G. Blair University of Foreign Languages, Beijing
Problems of Comparability Involving Myth and Religion
* Liu Shusen(刘树森) PKU
Fatherhood as the Godhood: Cases in Egyptian, Greek, and Chinese Mythologies
12.: 00 Lunch break
13:30 Panel: Western and Eastern(continued)
* E. Lyle (Edinburgh U.)
A complex Eurasian cosmology: not one duality but three interlocking dualities
14:10 Panel: East Asian mythology
* K. Hirafuji, 平藤きくこ Kokugakuin U., Tokyo
Japanese mythology in modern society
14:50 Teabreak
15:00 East Asian mythology (continued)
* K. Matsumura, 松村 一男 Wako U., Tokyo
Chinese contributions to the formation of
Japanese Mythology
* Chen Ganglong, 陈岗龙 PKU
Manggus in the Mongolian Epics and the Tibetan Dharmarāja
蒙古史诗中的恶魔蟒古思与藏传佛教护法神
16:20 Teabreak
16:30 Panel: Comparative and historical mythology
* B. Oguibenine Strasbourg U. & N. Yanchevskaya, Harvard U.
Models and Patterns in Comparative Mythology in Recent Russian Studies
* Lu Wei(吕微), CASS
Problems of Malinowski in the research of mythology
神话研究中的马林诺夫斯基Malinowski问题
17:50 Break
May 12, Fri.
08:30 Comparative and historical mythology (continued)
* W. van Binsbergen, Leiden U.
Further steps towards an aggregative diachronic approach to world mythology starting from the African continent
* M. Witzel, Harvard U.
Out of Africa: The spread of our earliest mythologies
09:50 Teabreak
10:10 Comparative and historical mythology (continued)
* S. Farmer Palo Alto, CA
Neurobiology, Stratified Traditions, and Comparative Mythology: How Myths Evolve
* Y. Berezkin St. Petersburg U.
Why People are Mortal? Indo-Pacific Mythology and the
‘Out-of-Africa’ Scenario
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Comparative and historical mythology (continued)
* Ph. Nicholson, Boulder, CO
Light visions, Shamanic Control Fantasies and the Creation of Myth
* H. Yamada, Tohoku U., Sendai
Mythology of the Taiwan Aborigines: the State of the Art
14:50 Teabreak
15:00 Comparative and historical mythology (continued)
* Shi Yang(史阳), PKU
The Flood as Meaningful Rebirth, the Symbolism of Mangyan Filipinos' Flood Myth
* E. Venbrux (K.U. Nijmegen)
Social life and the Dreamtime: Clues to creation myth as rhetorical devices in Tiwi ritural (Northern Australia)
16:20 Teabreak
16:30 Panel: Mythology from China
* Jae-Seo Jung(郑在书), E-hwa University, Korea
An Analysis on Chinese Mythological Discourse from the Viewpoint of Comparative Culture
* Wang Jing(王静), Qinghua University
Research on Wu Gang Cuts the Laurel
关于吴刚伐桂
17:50 break
May 13, Sat.
08:30 Mythology from China (continued)
* Ye Shuxian(叶舒宪), CASS
The Totem of Bear and its Myths
熊图腾神话的源流
* Xie Jisheng(谢继胜), Normal University of Capital Beijing
Mythological Symbols of the Five Animals on Tibetan rLung-rTa Prayer Flag
西藏“风马”经幡动物图案神话象征意义分析
09: 50 Teabreak
10:10 Mythology from China (continued)
* Yang Lihui(杨利慧), Beijing Normal University
Legitimacy of Ritual and Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Myth:
A Field Study of Transformation of Myths in Contemporary China
仪式的合法性与神话的解构和重构——
对当代中国神话变迁的研究
* Liu Zongdi(刘宗迪), CASS
Shanhaijing and the Worldview of Ancient China
《山海经》和华夏古代世界观
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Panel:Indian Mythology
* Wang Bangwei(王邦维), PKU
The Hero Must Be Mute:
A Hinduistic Story and Its Taoist Transformation
Panel Central and Western Asian mythology
* Chen Yiyi(陈贻绎), PKU
Some Observations on Ugaritic Mythology
乌加里特神话点滴
* Duan Qing(段晴), PKU
Active in Worldly Affairs
——An approach to the wordly side of Khotanese Buddhism based on new materials
入世的佛教
——从新发现的于阗佛教文献探讨佛教入世的层面
15:30 Teabreak
15:50 Closing speeches.
18:00 Prof. Chen Zhaoxing程朝翔, Dean of the School of Foreign Languages of PKU invites the participants to Dinner at Weiminglou (未名楼)
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