Prof. Yang Zhang American University, will present on Insurgence in Interstice: The Peripheral Rise of the Taiping Revolution.

Prof. Bryan D. Lowe, Princeton University will share his research on Village Buddhism in 8th and 9th Century Japan: A New Perspective from Archaeological and Manuscript Sources.

Prof. Juhn Ahn, University of Michigan, will talk about The Problem is Money? Inflation, Religion, and the Unmaking of Medieval Korea