Saturday, March 11th

2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Meeting, Editorial Board, JAOS. Salmon Room

Sunday, March 12th

9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Meeting, Board of Directors. Salmon Room

12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. Meeting, Greenfield Prize Committee. Salmon Room

10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Salon A

1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon Registration. Salon A

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Salon A

1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East I: AOS/NACAL: Linguistics.
John Huehnergard, Harvard University, Chair. (2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) Salon I

1.

Calvert Watkins, Harvard University

Hittite ku-ku-us-zi KUB 10.99 i 29

2.

David Testen, University of Chicago

Palatalization and the Early Akkadian Sibilants

3.

Jay Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles

Preterital ^*CeH- Verbs in the Rigveda and Old Hittite

     (Break )

4.

Ilya S. Yakubovich, University of California, Berkeley

Greek Labyrinthos as a Name for the East Mediterranean Royal Palace

5.

Benjamin Hary, Emory University and Shlomo Izre’el, Tel Aviv University

The Corpus of Spoken Hebrew

6.

Daniel E. Fleming, New York University

Dialect Features in Yaminite Mari Letters

7.

Peter T. Daniels, New York City

On Investigating the Subgroupings of Indo-European

B. East Asia I: Chinese History and Philosophy. Madeline Spring, University of Colorado, Chair (1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.) Salon H

8.

Donald Holzman, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Why Confucius "Talked Seldom about Goodness"

9.

David S. Nivison, Stanford University

How Old Was the Traditional Chinese Three-Years' Mourning?

10.

Martin Kern, Columbia University

The Principle of Self-Referentiality in Early Chinese Ritualism

11.

Daniel Boucher, Cornell University

The Transmission of "Barbarian" Manuscripts to China: Another Source for idenitfying early Kharosth¯i texts

Panel I: Historical Spoken Language

12.

R. VanNess Simmons, Rutgers University

What Kind of `History of Chinese' Are We Trying to Recover?

13.

Jost Zetzsche, International Writers' Group

The Missionary Perspective on Spoken and Written Chinese During the 19^th and Early 20^th Century

     (Break )

Panel II: Rhyming and Rime-table Evidence for Spoken Language

14.

Jerry Norman, University of Washington,

The Case of Shiehsheh-Spoken vs. Rime-book Phonology

15.

Li Wen-Chao, National Taiwan Normal University

Towards a New Definition of Mandarin Rhyme: Evidence from pop, rap and multilingual lyrics

16.

Hsü Hui-Chüan, National Taiwan Chiao-t'ung University

Loose Rhyming in Si4-xian4 Hakka

17.

Denis Sinor, Indiana University

Tharshish: The Curious Inner Asian destiny of an Old Testament place name

18.

Michael Drompp, Rhodes College

Ta T'ang ch'uang-yeh ch'i-chu chu as a Source for the History of the Early Türks (T'u-chüeh)

19.

Barbara Kellner-Heinkele (Freie Universität Berlin)

History And Myth In Abu L-Ghazi Bahadur Khan's Shejere-I Terakime

     (Break )

20.

Gregory D. S. Anderson, University of Chicago

Russian-Siberian Contacts and Morphosyntactic Restructuring in Native Siberian Languages

21.

Richard Adam Wainthropp, University of California, Los Angeles

Recontextualizing Turkish Color Terms: Connotative alternatives

22.

Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles

Social Space and Religious Authority in 3^rd/9^th Century Baghdad

23.

Shawkat M. Toorawa, University of Mauritius/RRAALL

The Forgotten Poetic Talents of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 280/893)

24.

Stephanie Thomas, Harvard University

The Art of Apt Speech in al-R¯aghib al-Isfah¯an¯i’s Muh¯adar¯at al-Ud¯ab¯a'

     (Break )

25.

Devin Stewart, Emory University

Ironic Inversion and Sectarian Polemic in Hamadhani’s Maqamat

26.

Dagmar A. Riedel, Indiana University

Adab as a Source for Medieval Social History: The Chapters on ghazal and muj¯un/sukhf from the Muh¯adar¯at al-Udab¯a' of al-R¯aghib al-Isfah¯an¯i (d. 1050)

27.

P. Oktor Skjærvø , Harvard University

G¯athic Entanglements: Cosmic tents and ropes in the Old Avesta

28.

Donald R. Davis, Jr., University of Texas, Austin

An¯ac¯ara and Regional Consciousness in the Laghudharmaprak¯a\'sik¯a

29.

Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas

Abhaksya and Abhojya: An Exploration in dietary language

30.

Maria Hibbets, California State University, Long Beach

On Buddhi and Cetan¯a

31.

Hanns-Peter Schmidt, University of California, Los Angeles

How to Kill a Sacrificial Victim

32.

Stephanie W. Jamison, Harvard University

Vedic vr`a: Evidence for the svayamvara in the Rig Veda?

33.

Hartmut Scharfe, University of California, Los Angeles

The role of \'Satras in Traditional Indian Education

34.

Jorunn J. Buckley, Bowdoin College

Gnostics on and in the Charles: The 1999 Harvard ARAM Conference on the Mandaeans (Introduction and Video)

Monday, March 13th

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Salon A

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit. Salon A

8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Breakfast for Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.'s (FREE) Salmon Room

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday Morning Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East III: Literature I. Piotr Michalowski, University of Michigan, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Salon I

35.

Niek Veldhuis, University of Groningen

The Journeys of the Gods

36.

A. J. Ferrara, Independent Scholar, Albuquerque, New Mexico

In Search of Omega: Some Thoughts on stemmatic analysis of Sumerian literary texts and schizophrenic sequelæ 

37.

Gonzalo Rubio, Ohio State University

A Ninimma Lament from Ur III Nippur

38.

M. J. Geller, University College London

Ur III incantations in the Frau-Hilprecht Sammlung

     (Break )

39.

Walter R. Bodine, Yale University

NBC 7800 and the Model Contracts

40.

Timothy J. Collins, University of Chicago

The Amorous Worm: Creativity and convention in an Old Babylonian toothache incantation

41.

Anne D. Kilmer, University of California, Berkeley

Visualizing Text: Schematic patterns in Akkadian poetry

42.

Kathryn Kravitz, Brandeis University

A Last-minute Revision to Sargon's Letter to the God?

B. East Asia III: Chinese Literature. Martin Kern, Columbia University, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon) Salon G

43.

Charles Yim-Tze Kwong, Lingnan University

Nature in the Classic of Songs

44.

Jui-Lung Su, National University of Singapore

Ma Rong's (79-166) "Rhapsody on the Chupu Game"

45.

Daniel Bryant, University of Victoria

Why Chinese Poets Got Into New-Style Verse and Why They Wouldn't Get Out

     (Break )

46.

Stuart H. Sargent, Colorado State University

Ho Chu (1152-1125) and the Masters: Matters of form and theme in the poetry of the Northern Sung

47.

Timothy C. Wong, Arizona State University

Beginnings: The First Chapters of the Sanguo and the Shuihu

48.

Rüdiger Arnzen, Ruhr University Bochum

Classical Arabic QAD as Discourse Particle

49.

Suzanne Stetkevych, Indiana University

Une Liaison Dangereuse: al-N¯abighah al-Dhuby¯an¯i’s Mutajarridah Poem

50.

Heidi A. Ford, Indiana University

Body Parts: Mutilation, reintegration, and social anxiety in Y¯usuf ibn Ism¯a`¯il al-Nabh¯an¯i’s J¯ami` Kar¯am¯at al-Awliy¯a'

     (Break )

51.

Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago

H¯atim al-T¯a'¯i: Poetic and social strategies of Bedouin generosity

52.

Leah Kinberg, Tel-Aviv University

Edification through the Supernatural: More About maskh ( = metamorphosis)

South and Southeast Asia II: Linguistics and Epigraphy. Christopher Minkowski, Cornell University, Chair. Salon D

53.

Jared S. Klein, University of Georgia

¯Amreditas in the Rigveda

54.

Masato Kobayashi, University of Pennsylvania

Syllable-boundary Rules in Early Indo-Aryan and Dravidian

55.

Stanley Insler, Yale University

Vedic ¯Urmy¯a

56.

Joseph Loizzo, Columbia University

Notice of a Conflict between Candrak¯rti's Analysis of Compounds from the Opening of the Guhyasamajatantra and the Tibetan Translation

     (Break )

57.

Peter Scharf, Brown University

Vivaks¯a, Avivaks¯ a, and K¯araka -rule-ordering

58.

Ashok Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

Pusya-M¯anava/Pusp¯a-m¯anava in Mah¯abh¯asya 7.2.23

59.

Jason Neelis, Florida State University

Drawing for Merit: Buddhist petroglyphs and donative inscriptions in "previously unestablished places"'

60.

Justin McDaniel, Harvard University

New Perspectives on Scripts and Inscriptions in Medieval Thailand and Laos

1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Monday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East IV: History and Archæ ology I. Maynard P. Maidman, York University, Chair (2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.) Salon I

61.

Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., University of Chicago

Cereal Husbandry Among the Hittites

62.

Meir Lubetski, Baruch College, City University of New York

A Reappraisal of a Recently Published Hezekiah Bulla

63.

Amanda Podany, California State Polytechnic University

The Changing Use of the Personal Name Determinative During the Second Millennium

64.

Steven Garfinkle, Columbia University

Shepherds, Merchants, and Credit in the Ur III Period

     (Break )

65.

Madeleine A. Fitzgerald, Yale University

Napl¯anum the Amorite

66.

Tonia M. Sharlach, Cornell University

From the Ends of the Empire: The Worship of Foreign Gods in Sargonic and Ur III Mesopotamia

67.

Karen R. Nemet-Nejat, Yale University

Lucky Thirteen

68.

George E. Mendenhall, University of Michigan

Semitic Linguistic History Reconsidered

Panel III: Specific Cases

69.

Karasawa Yasuhiko, Ritsumeikan University,

The Uses of Spoken Languages: Guan1-hua4-speaking in Late Imperial China

70.

David Prager Branner, Yuen Ren Society,

Artificial Character-readings vs. Natural Ancient Words in Living Taiwanese

71.

J. Michael Farmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Rhetoric and Genre of "Discourse on Enemy States"

72.

Ding Xiang Warner, Pacific Lutheran University

What's in the Name? An Examination of forms of address in Wang Tong's Zhongshuo

73.

Daniel Hsieh, Purdue University

Wen and Wu in Tang Fiction

74.

Jonathan Pease, Portland State University

Liu Ch'ang and Liu Pin: Two More Kiangsi intellectuals

D. Islamic Near East III: Law. Andrew Rippin, University of Calgary, Chair. Portland Room

75.

Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania

Calder, Sh¯afi`¯i and Ibn Qutayba: On the relative sophistication of hermeneutic techniques

76.

Christopher Melchert, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

How Hadith and Jurisprudence Came to be Complimentary Disciplines

77.

Maya Shatzmiller, University of Western Ontario/McGill University

Maliki Waqf of Nickels and Dimes: Property rights and the public good in the Islamic West

     (Break )

78.

Steven C. Judd, Southern Connecticut State University

The Q¯ad¯i in Umayyad Administration

79.

Rachel T. Howes, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Sunn¯i Q¯ad¯i and the Ism¯a`¯il¯i D¯a`¯i: The Political relations between Ism¯a`¯il¯is and Sunn¯is in 11^th Century Shiraz

80.

James L. Fitzgerald, University of Tennessee

The Meaning and Function of R¯ama J¯amadagnya in the Mah¯abh¯arata

81.

Vidyut Aklujkar, University of British Columbia

Indecent Proposals: Take five

82.

Mandakranta Bose, University of British Columbia

Motion in Still-life: The Visnudharmottara Pur¯ana on dancing and painting

83.

Chulhyun Bae, Harvard University

A Literary Stemma of King Darius's Behistun Inscription

     (Break )

84.

Arlo Griffiths, University of Leiden

More Recent Findings about the Atharvavedic Tradition of Orissa

85.

Susan J. Rosenfield, Harvard University

Grhya Br¯ahmanas Found in the Katha School

86.

George Cardona, University of Pennsylvania

The Manuscript History of the Vaiy¯akaranasiddhantaparamalaghumañj¯us¯a

87.

Christopher Z. Minkowski, Cornell University

N¯lakantha Caturdhara's Mantrak¯a\'s¯ikhanda

Plurality, Individuality, and Authenticity: Classics and the Fallible Reader in Late China

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon. Morning Registration. Salon A

8:30 a.m.-12:00 noon & 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Book Exhibit Salon A

9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Plenary Session: Millenarianism. Miguel Civil, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chair. Salon I

88.

James C. VanderKam, University of Notre Dame (Ancient Near East)

Title TBA

89.

Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin-Madison (East Asia)

Mencius's Quingentennium and John's Millennium: Why everybody's looking for an endtime

90.

Juan R. Cole, University of Michigan (Islamic Near East)

Millenarianism in Iran, 1500-2000

91.

Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa (South & South East Asia)

Millenarianism in Ancient and Classical India

1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Tuesday Afternoon Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East V: Literature II. Matthew W. Stolper, University of Chicago, Chair (1:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.) Salon I

92.

Joel H. Hunt, Fuller Theological Seminary.

Compassionate Marduk Who Hears Prayers: A Study in the creative arrangement of traditional Mesopotamian materials

93.

Gary Beckman, University of Michigan

Gilgamesh in Hatti

94.

Mary R. Bachvarova, University of Chicago

Homer and the Hurrian-Hittite Song of Release

     (Break )

95.

Scott Noegel, University of Washington

Geminate Ballast and Clustering: An Unrecognized literary feature in ancient Semitic poetry

96.

Tzvi Abusch, Brandeis University

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Some Observations on its meaning and literary connections

97.

Douglas Frayne, University of Toronto

Rebuilding E-ninnu

98.

Karin Myhre, Grinnel College

Humor and Linguistic Register in Dramatic Texts

99.

Hua Wei, Academia Sinica

Caizi Mudanting: An Erotic and unorthodox commentary on the Peony Pavilion

100.

He Yuming, University of California, Berkeley

"Fei shi chuanzhe, shi chuanzhi zhe ye"-On Visual Transmission of Drama in Late Ming

101.

Sophie Volpp, University of California, Davis

Worldy Stage: Theatricality and voyeurism in Jin Ping Mei

C. Islamic Near East V: Religion, Science and Philosophy. Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles, Chair. Portland Room

102.

Andrew Rippin, University of Calgary

Studying Qur'¯anic Tafs¯ir at the Beginning of the 21^st Century

103.

Robert Morrison, Cornell University

An Islamic Response to Modern Astronomy

104.

Jon McGinnis, University of Pennsylvania

Atomic Time and Avicennian Critique

     (Break )

105.

Merlin Swartz, Boston University

A Hanbal¯i Defense of Ta'w¯il

106.

Richard M. Frank, The Catholic University of America

Ahk¯am According to the Ash`arites

107.

M. G. Carter, Oslo University

The Indeterminacy of the Qur'an: Text, variants and control in medieval Islam

108.

Gary A. Tubb, Columbia University

The Laghu Yogavasistha and its Relation to the Yogavasistha

109.

Kengo Harimoto, University of Pennsylvania

The Author of the P¯atañjalayoga\'s¯astravivarana, in Relation to Mandana Mi\'sra

110.

David B. Gray, Columbia University

The Cakrasamvara Tantra : The History of its development in India and its transmission to Tibet and China

     (Break )

111.

Jerome H. Bauer, Washington University, St. Louis

Knowledge, Superknowledge, and Omniscience: Fetal divinization and its control

112.

Christian K. Wedemeyer, New College, University of South Florida

Antinomianism and Gradualism: The Contextualization of the practices of sensual enjoyment (cary¯a ) in the Guhyasam¯aja ¯Arya tradition

113.

Beatrice Reusch, University of California, Berkeley

Would the chaya graha -s, Ketu and Rahu, Come out to the Light (of Philology)?

114.

T. S. Rukmani, Concordia University, Montreal

Sw¯adhy¯ayamandal¯i and the Bhagavadg¯it¯a

E. Ancient Near East VI: Religion. Jack Sasson, Vanderbilt University, Chair (3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.) Salon I

115.

Herbert B. Huffmon, Drew University

Prophecy and Gender in the Ancient Near East

116.

Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota (WITHDRAWN)

The Anomaly of Kingship in Deuteronomy

117.

Baruch Margalit, University of Haifa

On Canaanite Fertility and Debauchery

     (Break )

118.

Anne Marie Kitz, Kenrick School of Theology

The Fate of NAM/s¯imtu

119.

Laurie E. Pearce, University of California, Berkeley

Secret, Sacred and Secular: Integrating Mesopotamian views

6:15 p.m.-7:15 p.m. Social Hour (Cash Bar) Salon E

7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Annual Subscription Dinner. Salon E

Presidential Address (Near the Conclusion of the Dinner, at approximately 9:30 p.m.)

120.

James A. Bellamy, University of Michigan

Textual Criticism of the Koran

Wednesday, March 15th

9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Book Sale Continues. Salon A

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Wednesday Morning Sectional Meetings

A. Ancient Near East VII: History and Archæology II. Martha T. Roth, University of Chicago, Chair (9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon.) Salon I

121.

Jack Sasson, Vanderbilt University

The Forcing of Morals on Mesopotamian Society

122.

Eva von Dassow, Colorado State University

Sealed Rosters from Mittanian Arrape

123.

Raymond Westbrook, Johns Hopkins University

Hard Times at Emar

124.

Stephen A. Kaufman, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati; Bruce
Zuckerman, University of Southern California

The Incirli Phoenician Inscription: Text, translation, and drawing

     (Break )

125.

Elizabeth Carter, University of California Los Angeles

Town Life on the Syro-Anatolian Frontier in the Sixth Millennium b.c.e.: An Overview of the excavations at Domuztepe 1995-1999

126.

S. M. Luppert-Barnard, University of Chicago

Assyrian Relations with Egypt during the Late Bronze Age

127.

Annalisa Azzoni, Johns Hopkins University

"An Oath Came upon You and You Swore by Sati the Goddess": A Re-examination of Papyrus Cowley 14

128.

James Evans, United Technology (independent scholar) (by title)

Cycle Theoretic New Testament Chronology

129.

Newell Ann Van Auken, University of Washington

The Phonetic Constituents of the Graph for Chinese < wang > ("to hope, to look afar")

130.

Shu-Hui Wu, Misissippi State University

T'ai-wan t'ung-shih and Shih chi: A Comparative study

131.

Ping-Leung Chan, Lingnan University

The Toad in the Chinese Lunar Myth

     (Break )

132.

Ann Pedone, University of California, Berkeley

Visualizing Vernacular Culture in the Medieval Encyclopedia Shilin
guangji

133.

Nanxiu Qian, Rice University

To Please a Woman for Reform-Politics and Poetics in Establishing the First Chinese School for Women

134.

Heather N. Keaney, University of California, Santa Barbara

Muslim Martyr? A Historiography of the revolt against the Caliph ^\lhookUthman

135.

Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University/Tel-Aviv University

Did the Caliph al-Mutawakkil Plan to Revamp the Abbasid Imperial Army?

136.

Linda Benson, Oakland University

Mission to the Muslims: Christian evangelists in Xinjiang, 1900-1937

     (Break )

137.

Michael Bonner, University of Michigan

New Economic Perspectives on the Rise of Islam

138.

Rudi Lindner, University of Michigan

1250-1350: What does mint proliferation mean?