ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2017 (Feb.)- Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of East Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
2017-2018 Member, The Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2011-2017 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of East Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
2015, 2016 (Summer) Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2013-2015 Director, Confucius Institute at Tel Aviv University
2011 (Summer) Visiting Scholar, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai.
2009-2011 Junior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D., East Asian Studies, Princeton University.
Dissertation title: "Qian Daxin (1728-1804): Knowledge, Identity, and Reception History in China, 1750-1930" (Advisor: Professor Benjamin A. Elman).
2004 M.A., Summa cum laude, School of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies, Tel-Aviv University.
Thesis title: "The Notion of Fate in the Guodian Confucian Texts: Its Origins and Transformations From the Late Shang to the Mid Warring States Period" (Advisor: Professor Yoav Ariel).
2000 B.A., Summa cum laude, Tel-Aviv University.
SELECTED INVITED TALKS, MAJOR CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS
2017:
“Philology as Scientia Scientiarium in Eighteenth-Century China,” paper presented at: “The Making of the Humanities Conference VI,” University of Oxford.
“Asian Spaces: Border-Crossing Dialogues,” Conference organizer, Tel Aviv University.
“Rethinking Time in Modern China,” Conference organizer, Tel Aviv University.
“Imagined Space, Imagined Civilization: Identity, Nation, and History in Asia (nineteenth to early twentieth c.),” paper presented at: “Asian Spaces: Border-Crossing Dialogues,” Tel Aviv University.
“The Textual Time-Machine: Truth, Facts, and the Shuowen, 1770-1932,” paper presented at: “Rethinking Time in Modern China,” Tel Aviv University
2016:
“The Textual Nature of Nature: Astronomical Debates in Eighteenth Century China,” paper presented at: Department III Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
"Modern Journalism and Nation State Building in China at the turn of the 20th Century," paper presented at: "Networking China and the World, International Conference," Tel Aviv University
"Business and Geopolitics: Round Table, The Historical Dimension," paper presented at: "China and Israel: Recalculating the Geopolitical and Business Course?," Tel Aviv University
“Living History in Modern China,” paper presented at “China and Israel: Recalculating the Geopolitical and Business Course?,” Tel Aviv University
"Sino-Israeli Relations: Implications for China, Israel, and the U.S. from Historical Perspective," paper presented at American Friends of TAU Special Meeting, Chicago (invited talk)
2015:
"The Communal Search for Truth in Concrete Facts: Philology as a Social Phenomenon in Eighteenth Century China and Beyond," paper presented at: “New Directions in the Cultural and Intellectual History of China,” NYU and Columbia University, New York
“Challenging the Orientation of the Comparison: China-India Comparative History,” paper presented at: “Comparative Studies in the 21st Century – Prospects and Pitfalls,” The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Jerusalem
“Texts and Cosmos: Astronomy and its Rationale in Qing China,” (also panel organizer: “Understanding the World: Science and Technology in Early Modern Asia”), paper presented at: “Science and Technology Transfer in Pre-Modern Asia,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2014:
“'Ancient Learning' for the Early-Modern Age," paper presented at: "The 12th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel 2014," Haifa University
"From Living Tradition to Objectified History: The Dialectics of Museumization," paper presented at: AAS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (also panel organizer: "A New and Useful Past: Framing Chinese History with Modern Tools")
"Chinese New Year and the History of the Chinese Calendar," paper presented at: The Chinese New Year Celebration, Tel Aviv University
"Humaneness and Rightness: Law and Morality in Modern China," keynote lecture at the Law School Graduation Ceremony, Tel Aviv University (invited talk, Hebrew)
2013:
"The Textual Nature of Nature: Astronomical Debates in Eighteenth-Century China," paper presented at: "Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China," Heidelberg University (invited talk)
"Reading as a Communal Practice (of Writing): Evidential Research Reading-Notes, Letters, and Paratext in the Eighteenth Century," paper presented at: “Reading, Textual Production, and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China,” The Pennsylvania State University (invited talk)
"The 2012 Nobel Literature Prize: Mo Yan," paper presented at: "2012 Nobel Prizes," Open University Symposium, Raanana (invited talk)
2012:
"Who is a 'Chinese'? The Challenge of Creating and Defining the Chinese Nation during the Ongoing Transition from Empire to Nation-State," paper presented at: "The Rise of Contemporary China: Domestic and Foreign Challenges in Historical Perspective, International Symposium in Honor of Prof. Yitzhak Shichor," University of Haifa, Haifa (invited talk)
"Past in the Present: Chinese History in Current Modernization Processes," Guest Lecture at the Faculty of Management Doctoral Students Meeting, Tel Aviv University (invited talk)
“Imagined Civilization: Forging National Identity in Turn of the Twentieth-Century China,” paper presented at: “The 4th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium 2012” (Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Potsdam (invited talk)
"From Qing to China: Rethinking the Interplay of Tradition and Modernity, 1860-1949," conference organizer, Tel Aviv University
"To Feel at Home in the Modern World: Turn of the Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography and Qing (1644-1911) Intellectual History," paper presented at: "From Qing to China," Tel Aviv University
"The 11th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel 2012," conference co-organizer, Tel Aviv University
"Ritual, Philology, and Governance: Reordering Canon and State in the Qing," paper presented at: "The 11th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel 2012," Tel Aviv University (also panel organizer: "Canon, Governance, and Society – Chinese Perspectives")
"Gu Yanwu's Ideas on Rulership and their Nineteenth-Century Reception," paper presented at: "Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China," The Hebrew University (invited talk)
"'Not to Err': Qian Daxin and the Philological Zeitgeist of the Mid-Qing," paper presented at: "Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China," Heidelberg University (invited talk)
"Dai Zhen and Itō Jinsai: The Plagiarism Debate Contextualized," paper presented at: AAS Annual Meeting, Toronto
"'Han Learning': A History of the Uses (and Abuses) of the Term during the Qing," paper presented at: "International Symposium on Modern China Studies, High Qing through Contemporary China," York University (invited talk)
2011:
"Changing Orientations: Perceptions of the Nexus between Knowledge and Antiquity in China, 1607-1930," paper presented at: "Golden Ages: Universal Histories and the Origins of Science," Columbia University (invited talk)
"Re-ordering the Nation’s Past: New Categories in the Service of China’s New History,” paper presented at: "China past and Present: The Influence of History from Empire to Republic," NYU (invited talk)
"How did Philosophy become Chinese? The Travels of a Category of Knowledge from Europe to Asia," paper presented at: A lecture-cum-seminar at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context," Heidelberg University (invited talk and seminar)
"Rethinking the History of Han Learning in the Qing Period," paper presented at: National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies Lecture Series, Fudan University, Shanghai (invited talk)
2010:
“Philosophy’s Ascendancy: The Genealogy of Tetsugaku/Zhexue in Japan and China, 1870-1930,” paper presented at: AAS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (also panel co-organizer: “Historicizing ‘Philosophy’: Transmission, Reception, and Uses of a Borrowed Category of Thought in China”)
2009:
“Multiple Antiquities: Mid-Qing Philology, History, and Classicism,” presented at: AAS Annual Meeting, Chicago (also panel organizer: “Philology in East Asia, 1600-1800: Shaping and Altering Identities and Boundaries”)
“Why Did Philosophy Matter: The Genealogy of Tetsugaku/Zhexue in Japan and China, 1870-1930,” paper presented at: Fudan University, History Department Colloquium, Shanghai (invited talk).
2008:
“The Crisis of Modernity in 20th-Century Chinese Historiography: Dai Zhen’s (1724-77) Posthumous Triumph over Qian Daxin (1728-1804),” paper presented at: "Traditional Scholarship and Asian National Modernity Conference," Indiana University, Bloomington (invited talk)
“Knowledge and Identity in the Writings of Qian Daxin,” paper presented at: History Department Colloquium, Fudan University, Shanghai (invited talk).
“The Scientific Identity of the ‘True Confucians’ (zhenru): Qian Daxin (1728-1804) and the Question of Western Learning,” paper presented at: The 12th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
“Mathematics and Astronomy in Eighteenth-Century China: Which Science? Whose Science? Why Science?,” paper presented at: The 7th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (also panel organizer: “Between Integration and Separation: Changing Scientific Traditions in East Asia”).
2007:
“Is the Laozi a Daoist Text? Exploring the Notion of School Affiliation through Qing Period Commentaries,” paper presented at: AAS Annual Meeting, Boston.
2006:
“The Merciless and the Repenter: Comparing the First Emperors in China and India and the Epistemology of the Formation of Empires,” paper presented at: AAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
“’Eliminate Knowledge and there will be no Worries’: Laozi Commentaries in the Ming and Qing Periods,” paper presented at: The 5th Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
2005:
“Are Desires ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’? The Nexus between Desires and Human Nature in the Warring States Period,” paper presented at: The 4h Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (also panel organizer: “What to Want? Desires in Chinese Philosophy”).
2004:
“The Duke of Zhou: Confucius’ Dreams Hero,” paper presented at: The 3rd Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, University of Haifa, Haifa.
2003:
“The Significance of the Notion of Fate in the Xing Zi Ming Chu,” paper presented at: The 2nd Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Israel, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv.
