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DESCRIPTION:The Kitan empire\, ruled by the Liao dynasty (907-1125)\,\ncont
 rolled large parts of modern-day northern China. Until the 1980s it was\nm
 ostly considered peripheral to East Asian culture. But since then\narchaeo
 logists\, historians\, and linguists have demonstrated that the contrary\n
 was true and that the Liao empire was the major cultural nexus between Chi
 na\, Korea\,\nJapan\, Mongolia\, and the Tarim Basin. Luxuriously furnishe
 d tombs and dozens of\npagodas have yielded previously unknown material ev
 idence--including new\ntextual sources--that help study Liao culture from 
 within\, rather than through\nthe eyes of the traditional Chinese historic
 al sources. The new finds have led\nto an explosion of Liao scholarship in
  China. This three-day conference offers\nthe first major academic venue i
 n the West to discuss this scholarship.\n\nSeptember 30Yale UniversityTala
 Inner Mongolia Museum\, HohhotKeynote AddressOctober 1Yale UniversityUNDER
 STANDING THE KITAN LANGUAGEChair: Daniel Kane\, Macquarie UniversityDaniel
  KaneMacquarie UniversityThe Name of the Kitan State in Kitan\n\nAndrew Sh
 imunekIndiana UniversityKitan and its Genetic Affiliation to Mongolic: Evi
 dence of a Mongol-Serbi Language Family\n\nWayne Wei-yu TanHarvard Univers
 ityFill in the Blanks–Sources and Methods in Kitan Script Decipherment\n\n
 Yasunori TakeuchiKyoto UniversityKitan Phonology and the Assignment of Pho
 netic Values to Kitan Graphemes\n\nKITAN NOMADS AND SEDENTARY CULTUREChair
 : Nicola Di Cosmo\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton Naomi Standen
  University of Newcastle Gwen Bennett McGill University Tearing Down the G
 reat Wall: The Evidence from Post-Han Black Wares \n\nLin HuQinghua Univer
 sityRethinking the Liao Cities: Archaeological and Textual Perspectives\n
 \nKITAN ELITE SOCIETYChair: Nicola Di Cosmo\, Institute for Advanced Study
 \, PrincetonLinda Cooke JohnsonMichigan State UniversityKitan Women in Lia
 o Society\n\nPamela Kyle CrossleyDartmouth CollegeOutside In: Power\, Iden
 tity\, and the Han Lineage of Jizhou\n\nBUDDHIST PATRONAGECharir: Robert G
 imello\, University of Notre Dame \n\nLothar LedderoseUniversity of Heidel
 bergMake Sutras\, Not War: The Stele of 965/1005 AD at Cloud Dwelling Mona
 stery\n\nHsueh-man ShenInstitute of Fine Arts\, New York UniversityOne Thi
 ng Contains All\, and All Things Contain One: Huayan Buddhism and the Liao
  Pagodas\n\nKirill Solonin Saint-Petersburg State University\; Foguang Uni
 versity Kitan Influences and the Formation of the Tangut Buddhism October 
 2Bard Graduate Center\n\nWu HungUniversity of ChicagoKeynote AddressKITAN 
 DYNASTIC MATERIAL CULTUREChair: Li Qingquan\, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Ar
 ts Chair: Valerie Hansen\, Yale University Dong Xinlin Chinese Academy of 
 Social Sciences Excavating Liao Zuling: New Discoveries François LouisBard
  Graduate CenterIconic Ancestors: Re-Contextualizing Kitan Elite Burials\n
 \nChia NingCentral College\, IowaThe Seal Culture in the Liao Dynasty\n\nX
 in Chen University of Oxford The Paradise of Buddha: A Case Study of Minia
 ture Buildings in the Liao Period Nancy SteinhardtUniversity of Pennsylvan
 iaEminent and Not-Quite-Such Eminent Liao ArchitectureLIAO BUDDHISM\, KORE
 A\, AND JAPANChair: Mimi Yiengpruksawan\, Yale University Youn-mi Kim Yale
  University The Missing Link: Tracing the Liao in Heian Japanese Shingon R
 itual Brian Vivier University of Michigan Liao Integration in the Religiou
 s Networks of Eleventh-Century Northeast Asia Youngsook Pak University of 
 London Koryo and Liao Relations in the 10th–11th Century—Impact on Buddhis
 t Culture KITAN TRADE AND DIPLOMACYChair: Michal Biran\, The Hebrew Univer
 sity of Jerusalem Anya King University of Southern Indiana Early Arabic an
 d Persian Sources on the Kitan Liao: The Role of Trade Valerie Hansen Yale
  University International Gifting and the Kitan World\, 907–1125  Bard Gra
 duate Center and The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Conference—Perspectives on the Liao
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