School of Humanities & Languages (Chinese Studies), UNSW
4:00 to 6:00 pm Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Room 310, Level 3, Morven Brown Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW
RSVP: 5 pm Monday, 13 August (for catering purposes) to hal@unsw.edu.au
Contact: Dr Wang Ping (p.wang@unsw.edu.au)
Prof Jon von Kowallis (j.vonkowallis@unsw.edu.au)
T: 9385-1020
About the Speaker
Michael Puett is Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He is the author of The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China and To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, as well as the co-author, with Adam Seligman, Robert Weller, and Bennett Simon, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity. He is the recipient of a Harvard College Professorship award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.