Doctoral School “East Asian Historical Phonology in a Comparative Perspective”, March 13-17, 2017

This Doctoral School is open to a limited number of external PhD students (free of charge)! For more information, please contact christoph.anderl@ugent.be.


Monday, March 13th
9:30: Welcome of the participants by the Doctoral School organizers (Christoph Anderl, Ann Heirman)
10:00 – 12:00: General introduction* (Guillaume Jacques)
12:00 – 13:30: lunch break
13:30 – 15:00: Introduction: Multilingualism along the Silk Road* (Christoph Anderl)

Tuesday, March 14th
10:00 – 12:00: Rhyme Tables (Guillaume Jacques)
12:00 – 13:30: lunch break
13:30 – 15:30: Exercises: Rhyme Tables (Christoph Anderl)

Wednesday, March 15th
10:00 – 13:00: Sanskrit transcriptions into Chinese (Guillaume Jacques)
13:00 – 14:00: lunch break
14:00 – 16:00: Discussion with students, Q+A (Guillaume Jacques, Sven Osterkamp)

Thursday, March 16th
10:00 – 12:00: Large-scale Borrowings and the “Sinoxenic” Reading Traditions of Chinese Characters (Sven Osterkamp)
12:00 – 13:30: lunch break
13:30 – 15:30: Foreign Transcriptions of Chinese and Vice-Versa in a Historical Perspective: Part 1 (Sven Osterkamp)

Friday, March 17th
10:00 – 12:00: General lecture on Historical Phonology in an East Asian perspective* (Sven Osterkamp)
12:00 – 13:00: lunch break
13:00 – 15:00: Foreign Transcriptions of Chinese and Vice-Versa in a Historical Perspective: Part 2
15:15 – 16:00: Final discussions (Sven Osterkamp, Christoph Anderl, Ann Heirman)
*Lectures also suitable for a more general audience