Classicising Learning, Performance, and Power: Eurasian Perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, University of Edinburgh, December 12–14, 2019
The team of the PAIXUE project is delighted to announce that its international Symposium on ‘Classicising learning, performance and power: Eurasian perspectives from Antiquity to early modern Period’ will take place between the 12 and the 14 of December 2019 at the University of Edinburgh.
The PAIXUE Symposium brings together scholars from across North America, Europe and Asia in order to explore how public performances of classicising learning (however defined in each culture) influenced and served imperial or state power in premodern political systems across Eurasia and North Africa. Aiming at encouraging scholarly exchanges among experts in different fields and cultures, the papers relate to the following three interconnected thematic strands: (a) Classicising learning and the social order, (b) Classicising learning and the political order, and (c) Classicising learning and the self.
Registration is now open and will remain live until the 6 December. Early registration is strongly advised as places are limited.