We would like to invite you to Distinguished Scholar Lecture hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Title: "Ocean's Curve: Contact and Confluence Between China and Southeast Asia Over a Thousand Years"
Speaker: Prof. Eric Tagliacozzo, Department of History, Cornell University
Time and Venue: September 25 (Wed) 3-5 PM, Humanities Building 7-308, International Conference Room

Abstract
This presentation takes a look at how interactions developed in the “adolescence” of Sino-Southeast Asian contact, in the time period roughly covered by the thousand years between 600 and 1600 CE. We know very little about the “infancy” of these dealings, in the years before the T’ang. But by that dynasty, patterns of interaction slowly began to develop on a more systemic basis, particularly with some of the coastal landscapes of island Southeast Asia. I examine the growth and eventual flourishing of these interactions, and try to situate them in the larger milieu of what is often now called the “maritime silk road”. Some attention is given as well to two commodities as windows of these patterns, each traveling in a different direction. Ceramics heading south to insular Southeast Asia, and ocean products heading north to China, are both briefly indexed to show how these connections looked on the ground. I end with some thoughts on what these trade patterns meant in the larger scheme of things in one particular place, as “adolescence” eventually gave way to a troubled adulthood in these relationships after 1600 or so.

Speaker Biography

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale, 2005) which won the Harry Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, and of The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford, 2013). He is also the editor or co-editor of a dozen other books, including the Asia Inside Out trilogy, from Harvard University Press. He is the Director of Cornell’s Comparative Muslim Societies Program (CMS), as well as Cornell’s Modern Indonesia Project (CMIP), and serves as editor of the journal INDONESIA. His newest monograph, In Asian Waters: Charting Asia’s Maritime History From Yemen to Yokohama, recently came out with Princeton University Press.

https://asia.snu.ac.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=52&wr_id=135

Thank you.