The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Departmental Seminar at the Hebrew University are pleased to invite you a talk by Prof. Robin D.S. Yates (McGill University) on the topic: 

War and Peace in Early China: Some Reflections 

The talk will be held on Wednesday, 25.5.2016, 16:30-18:00, in Seminar Room 304, the Mout Scopus Social Sciences & Humanities Library. An Invitation is attached to this message. We hope to see you there!

Robin D.S. Yates, James McGill Professor of East Asian Studies and History and Classical Studies, McGill University, is a specialist on the social and cultural history of early China, the history of Chinese military science and technology, the history of Chinese women, and the history of Chinese law. Trained at Oxford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, where he gained his PhD in 1980, he has received many awards and held many positions, including President, New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies; Chair of the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and Board Member of the Association for Asian Studies, a Killam Research Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (2000-2002), the Award for Distinction in Research, Faculty of Arts (2006), the Prix André-Laurendeau (sciences humaines) presented by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) (2008). He was elected Chair of the international Society for the Study of Early China and Editor of its journal, Early China (2003-2010), and elected to the Royal Society of Canada, Division of the Humanities of the Academy of the Arts and Humanities, in 2010. He served as Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies and Director of the Centre for East Asian Research, McGill University until September 2014. His most recent publication, a collaboration with Anthony Barbieri-Low, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247 (2 vols. cxiv+1416 pp.), Sinica Leidensia vol. 126, was released by Brill in November, 2015.