Participation in conferences and panels
The components of the research project have participated in panels and presentations at the following national and international conferences since the months preceding the acquisition of funding, with the aim of sharing preparatory work and initiate an initial discussion with the scientific community:
First All-Mediterranean Chinese Studies Conference
University of Malta
February 1-3, 2023
ORGANIZATION OF THE PANEL
Transcultural Mediterranean:
Chinese Descriptions of the “Sea among Lands” in Imperial Times
Coordinator and discussant: Renata Vinci (University of Palermo)
Victoria Almonte (Tuscia University of Viterbo)
Du Huan’s Perception of the Mediterranean Area in the VIII Century
Ileana Amadei (Sapienza University of Rome)
Wang Dayuan’s Daoyi zhilüe (1349): Did the World outside the Imperial Borders Stretch to Morocco?
Lara Colangelo (G.D'Annunzio University of Chieti Pescara)
The “Migration” of Roman Law from European and Mediterranean Areas to China: Early Information on the Romanist Legal Tradition in Chinese Sources (Late 19th-Early 20th Cent.)
Miriam Castorina (University of Florence)
Malta and the Mediterranean Sea in 19th Century Chinese Travel Literature
Renata Vinci (University of Palermo)
Mediterranean: The Sea between Lands as Transcultural Space in Kang Youwei’s Travel Diary
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XIX AISC Conference 2023
(Italian Association of Chinese Studies)
Sapienza University of Rome
September 21–23, 2023
ORGANIZATION OF THE PANEL
Un breviario cinese del Mediterraneo:
come le fonti cinesi di epoca imperiale raccontano il “mare tra le terre”
Coordinator and discussant: Renata Vinci (University of Palermo)
Maurizio Paolillo (L’Orientale University of Naples)
Il volo della fenice. Dall’Egitto alla Cina
Francesca Fariello (L’Orientale University of Naples)
Da Yuan 大宛 e Da Qin 大秦: l’ecumene greco-ellenistica nelle fonti cinesi
Victoria Almonte (Tuscia University of Viterbo )
Il Mediterraneo come via della fede: il divino e il soprannaturale descritti in chiave transculturale da Du Huan e altre opere geografiche Tang e Song
Ileana Amadei (Sapienza University of Roma)
Tracce di Mediterraneo nel Daoyi zhilüe di Wang Dayuan (1349): un percorso tra le terre e i prodotti di un mare forse mai attraversato
Lara Colangelo (G. D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara)
Il diritto romano come elemento di cultura immateriale europea e mediterranea nelle fonti cinesi di epoca tardo Qing
Renata Vinci (University of Palermo)
“Blu a perdita d’occhio, gli antichi eroi mi fanno visita”: il paesaggio marino come ispirazione per una storia transculturale del Mediterraneo in Kang Youwei
Gabriele Tola (Sapienza University of Roma)
Mediterraneo transculturale nella letteratura di viaggio cinese: la descrizione di monumenti e reperti in Oumei manyou riji (1937)
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Cina Europa
Incroci di vie e connessioni culturali
University of Materata
November 9-10, 2023
INVITED PARTICIPATION
Renata Vinci (University of Palermo)
Popoli e personaggi della storia transculturale del Mediterraneo nelle fonti geografiche e odeporiche cinesi
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International workshop
The Perception of the Others
November 28-29, 2023
Tuscia University of Viterbo
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
dedicated to the representations of the 'other'
in Chinese, Arabic, and Persian sources
Organized by Victoria Almonte (Tuscia University of Viterbo).
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25th Conference
of the European Association of Chinese Studies
University of Tallin
August 27-31, 2024
ORGANIZATION OF THE POSTER
The Mediterranean through Chinese Eyes (MeTChE): An Analysis Based on Geographical
and Travel Sources from the Song to Qing Dynasties (960–1911)
Proposed by Renata Vinci, Victoria Almonte, Federica Casalin, Miriam Castorina, Yu Yating
PARTICIPATION IN THE PANEL
Bowu 博物 and meishu 美术: exploring the intercultural dialogue
between China and the West regarding art and material culture
from the late Qing to the Republican Period
Coordinator: Ornella De Nigris (Università di Siena)
Renata Vinci (University of Palermo)
Connecting the Dots for a Map of the Mediterranean Artistic Tradition Through the Pages of Kang Youwei’s Travel Accounts
Miriam Castorina (University of Florence)
Huang Juesi and His Contribution to the Dissemination of European Art in China
Federica Casalin (Sapienza University of Rome)
An Investigation of 19th-Century Chinese Mobility in the Mediterranean Region and the Resemantization of “Bowu”
Go to conference website for program and book of abstracts
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Sinophone Europe
Exploring Sinophone Cultural
Expressions and Identities in Europe
University of Florence
December 13-14, 2024
Organized by the University of Florence Research Unit.