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主题：西汉长安城的过去与现状
嘉宾：加拿大麦吉尔大尔学历史与古典研究系Griet Vankeerberghen博士
时间：2017年5月25日晚上19：00-21：00
地点：学术交流中心三号会议室
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Topic：Western Han Chang’an: a City of the Past and the Present
Speaker：Dr. Griet Vankeerberghen
Department of History and Classical Studies ，McGill University
Time：7:00 pm-9:00 pm, May 25, 2017 (Thursday )
Venue: ACC#3
内容摘要：
此讲座主要探讨西汉时期的长安城。西汉长安城是古代时期最大的两个城市之一，面积几乎是古罗马城的三倍大，在早期中国帝国的创立中起到至关重要的作用。然而，与罗马城形成鲜明对比的是，长安城很少有可见遗迹，其遗迹大多隐藏在西安这个快速发展的中国西北大都市的地底下。此讲座将探讨重现这个古老城市所面临的史学层面上的挑战，包括改变对古籍文献的偏见、认识现代考古学的关注焦点、了解“比较古代历史”这个新兴独特学术领域出现的原因、清楚现代城市发展的实际情况。然而，只要这些挑战得以恰当解决，长安城这个对急速全球化发展的当代世界有着重要意义的古老城市将会揭开它的面纱。
My talk concerns the Chinese city of Chang’an, capital of the Western Han dynasty during the first two centuries BCE and one of the two greatest cities of the classical world. Nearly three times the size of Rome, the city, like Rome, played a crucial role in the creation of the early Chinese empire. In sharp contrast to Rome, there are few visible remains of the ancient city, which is hidden under the rapidly developing metropolis of modern Xi’an in northwestern China. My lecture will discuss the historiographical challenges posed by the task of rendering the ancient city visible again. Besides involving an awareness of the particular biases of ancient textual sources, it also requires an understanding of the concerns of modern archaeology, of the reasons for the emergence of comparative ancient history as a new but distinct field of scholarly enquiry, and of the realities of modern urban development. However, once these challenges are properly addressed, a portrait of this important ancient city, meaningful to our modern, rapidly globalizing world, can emerge.
嘉宾简介：
Griet Vankeerberghen，美国普林斯顿大学历史学博士，2007年起在加拿大麦吉尔大学任教，现任麦吉尔大学历史与古典研究系副教授，开设课程包括中国古代史、中国家庭、孔子研究等。Vankeerberghen博士主要研究《淮南子》、《史记》等西汉典籍，在研项目“西汉长安城”获加拿大国家社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC）项目基金。Vankeerberghen博士同时是全球古代研究网(http://www.globalantiquities.org) 共同主任，曾于2015年与Michael Nylan共同出版学术著作《公元前26年的长安：中国的奥古斯都时代》（Chang’an 26 BCE: an Augustan Age in China）。
Griet Vankeerberghen (Ph.D. Princeton University, 2006) is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Classical Studies of McGill University. She has published on several Western Han texts and their social, political and material contexts, including the Huainanzi, Shiji, and the Four Lost Classics. She is currently engaged in a SSHRC-supported research project on Chang’an, the capital of Western Han. With Hans Beck, she is co-director of the Global Antiquities Research Network (http://www.globalantiquities.org). She teaches a wide variety of courses on early and medieval China, on the Chinese family, and on Confucius. She co-edited Chang’an 26 BCE: an Augustan Age in China with Michael Nylan (University of Washington Press, 2015).
